Sean's role was Camerawork. This meant he filmed the majority of our film. He was in charge of making sure our footage was at a good quality and not shaky. He had to make sure the framing was to a high standard, making sure there was nothing unrealistic in the background, or people getting in the way of any shots. He had to use a variety of camera angles and shots, such as tracking, birds-eye view, close ups and panning. To decide of the best shots we had to research other teen angsts films to get ideas for effective shots to use in our own film. From our research we decided to use panning as camera work in our own film. We used this when the voiceover is playing and shows me walking through school corridors. This will be relatable for the target audience as it will show a familiar setting as they also go to school. We got this idea from Mean girls. Panning is used in Mean girls when they are introducing the different groups of people that sit in the cafeteria. We thought it looked effective as it fitted well with a voiceover in both Mean Girls and our film. He was particularly good at this role as he knew the risk assessment well and made sure to look after all the equipment. 
Mine and Bonny's role was editing. We had to take all the footage and put it into chronological order, then we had to cut all the scenes, and then edit them to look to a high standard. We used editing techniques such as adding transitions, adding music, changing the speed of a scene and making 
certain scenes into a split screen. We got this idea from Mean Girls where they use split screens in a three way phone call. In our film it worked effectively as it showed to things happening at the same 
time but in different places. In Mean Girls they use a split screen to show the three girls bitching on the phone, this is a convention of a teen angsts as girls stereotypically like to gossip and can be quite mean behind each others backs. This would be quite relatable to the target audience and we therefore wanted to use it in our own film. We were also in charge of adding titles and deciding the font, colour and position for them. We got most of our ideas for this from the film Juno, who had a similar animated style to the titles. Joe's role was director. He decided where and how he wanted things filmed, he had to make decisions to how he wanted a certain scene acted and where the best place for it to be filmed was. If we filmed a scene and he thought it could be better we did it again, changing certain ideas. He got ideas from our research of other teen angsts such as Clueless and Wild Child. He got ideas such as locations and choosing actors from this. He tried to find the most suitable actors to fit the stereotypical teen angst characters. He was particularly good at this role as he is good at time keeping so made sure everything was completed efficiently on time.
My role was to be in charge of music, this meant finding the most suitable piece or pieces for our film. We wanted it to be upbeat, fairly fast pace and cheerful sounding. I decided on a piece of music off freeplay.com called "Clear" this worked well because it fit our criteria and sounded quite stereotypical of a teen angst title sequence. I also chose another piece of music from the same site called; "Loving everything I find." I used this as foreboding as it played when Charlotte and Peter met and they end up together. I got this idea from the film Clueless. This is because when Cher realises she loves Josh the music changes to a love themed song.
Bonny's main role was costumes. She designed the costumes to suit each character. She used our research to find stereotypical costumes of teen angst characters; such as Poppy Moore and Regina George from Wild Child and Mean Girls; and adapted them to suit our film and individual characters. The costumes all suited the personality of each character, for example Caitlin's and Kyle's outfits were stylish and branded to connote their popularity and sense of style. Whereas Charlotte and Peter both wore plain, boring uncool clothes to show they had no interest in the appearance.
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