Settings

The main setting for our teen angst was in Ernulf post 16 area. We chose to set our film here for several reasons. One reason was that it represents the age of the characters to be older teenagers and therefore makes it relatable to the target audience. Another reason is  by setting it in a school it meant we could show a variety of social issues that take place at school, such as; bullying, friendship/relationship problems, social groups and the stress of school work and the effect this has on the characters in our film. This also is relatable to our target audience who most likely are facing similar problems and dramas within their lives. We got this idea from Angus Thongs and perfect Snogging who also base their film in an average English school, instead of an exciting, big American school its small and boring, which is most likely to be more similar to the target audience and therefore they can find it more relatable.

We filmed part of our film in this corridor. We chose to do it here because you can see the lockers in the background and displays up on the wall. It looks like a stereotypical school corridor, and makes it relatable. We used this corridor with the view of the lockers because in our research we found this was quite common in teen angst films such as; High school musical. This worked well at portraying the stereotypical setting and made it look more realistic.

Regina's room



Caitlin's Room

Charlotte's room

Another main setting within our film is the sisters bedrooms.
Caitlin's bedroom is considerably larger than Charlottes. It has a large double bed and a dressing table. Whereas Charlottes is small and simple with single bed. We also made the rooms slightly messy; as this is a stereotype of teenagers and makes it more relatable to our audience. We used the difference in rooms to symbolise the contrast of different personalities between the two characters and show Caitlin is more popular and spoilt.
We got the idea for Caitlin's room from the films Clueless and Mean Girls. Both Cher's and Regina's rooms are big and luxurious, with double beds and big wardrobes. They represent them as having lots of money, we wanted Caitlin to have the same representation as she is portrayed to be spoilt.


Cady's room

Charlottes room however we got the idea from Mean Girls; Cady Herons room, her room is nice, but plain and simple, it appears quite childish. As we based Charlottes character partly on Cady we thought it was fitting for their rooms to represent them similarly.