The first film that came to mind when we was building our opening sequence was john tucker must die. Our groups idea is to have a chick flick with a boy who is playing a multiple number of girls which is similar to John tucker but yet so different from ours. In john Tucker he ends up falling for one girl who is giving him a taste of his own medicine by playing him where as our film ends up with the player (chase Smith) being gay and is trying to over come his sexuality. However, we are still using JTMD to help with our opening sequence for example because we want to make it look like a typical high school and we are trying to get the right kind of music to fit the scene, so we are listening to the soundtrack of JTMD to get the correct genre to make it work. We are also trying to keep our film as different to john tucker as we can because we do not want examiners to feel we have stole there idea. For example, we are trying to keep the three different girls different from eachother but also different from american movies therefore we are staying away from the typical cheerleader, Clever girl and the pretty girl that are always put into american high school chick flicks. So, we have made it look more real life in a british way for a london high school to make it look more of an english film to make it look realistic. So are viewers will be introduced to Aliayah an urban rude girl, Esmee` an italian clingy girl and finally Claudia a little rich posh girl living of her fathers money.
A big way how we have used mean girls as an influence is that we have always said from the beginning when our player "chase" is talking to the girls we want to have him on the phone with a split screen. He will stay on the left side of the screen and the three girls will talk to him individually and as the girl changes the right side of the phone call changes just to show his methods of how he is basically saying the same things to all of the girls. It is a clear way of showing how he is arranging the same times with the girls and just different days. It also gives close ups of each of the main girls to show how different they are from each other and what they are doing etc. The way we got our phone call split screen idea was from mean girls where they have a four way conversation however we want it to be just a split screen to show two people having a conversation.
Our third influence when coming up with the storyline was crossroads. Cross roads helped us because the way we want to have all of the characters characters different to each other is what they did in there storyline. So we was wondering how we was able to show all of our girls being different from each other rather then just changing accents and looks. This movie helped us realise that the script is a big part towards that in the way they act for example in cross roads the popular girl is saying "we look so hot" to all of her friends so that straight away lets us know her character and what she is like. The setting is also a big part for example the popular girl "kit" was at a graduation dance in nice pink dress and the other girl "mimi" was hanging around in some park. So it is generating ideas how we can show our three girls being completly different within the first two minutes.
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