Some Girls Recreated Analysis

Some Girls Recreated Analysis

I was placed in a group and we filmed and edited the some girls clip as a recreation which we felt represented the topics well. We chose to use youtube to find a clip from a tv drama which displayed bullying and embarrassing moment.s for teenagers so it would be easy for us to create in school with the props we had. We decided to use the Some Girls clip in which there are two friendship groups one of which is more portrayed as the typical popular group compared to other groups within typical teenage school years which are quiet and shy. In the clip one of the characters from the more quite group called Saz has found out that the ‘blondies’ who the popular group are being refered to as due to the stereo typical thoughts that come with teenage girls with blonde hair in popular groups. This group have taken her diary and make her beg to get it back which is seen as bullying and also embarrassing for her which is a clear representation. Before recreating the clip we made a story board in which would help us to recreate the video and allow us to have a greater understanding of what we needed to do to create the clip. In this story board we drew out the scenes that we would be filming and the different camera angles we would be using. When recreating the clip we made it so that we used exactly the same camera angles as what are used in the original clip.

Before recreating the some girls clip as a group we created a story board which helped us decide how we was going to film the clip and what camera angles we would be using. We also wrote about the tone of voice we would be using for the particular part we are filming.

 

Firstly, we began by filming the starting scene of the video which is a typical introduction to the clip to make the clip easily recognisable. The clips starts with a low angle which is continuous where we filmed  following  the footsteps of the two characters; this would be a 20 second frame and uneditied to be fluent. In would then go into an upper tilt in which would show the authority of the ‘blondies’. and make us realise they were an important characters in the clip. We would also be using non-diegetic music in this section which will be the same music which is used in the original clip to make the clip seem interesting. The music will add emphasis and tension to the clip making the viewers more engaged in the clip and be more intrigued to see what will happen. It also makes the audience more suspicious and gives an idea that the girls are coming to confront the ‘blondies’.

The tilt camera angle of when Saz is begging for her diary back adds emphasis to how desperate she is to get it back and the blondies just laugh at her which represents how they are bullying her. The camera also flicks between the two friendship groups which make it seem more dramatic about how they are confronting each other and it also lets us see which of the two groups have more power. Upwards tilts have been used when showing the ‘blondies’ which conveys the two shy girls looking upward to the blonde girls because they are bigger and more powerful than them. The camera angles make the audience understand the clip more and make it more entertaining to watch especially when we see how the camera shots for the ‘blondies’ such as the upwards tilts make them look like they have more authority, whereas with the other friendship group other camera shots have been used such as downwards tilts which conveys they have less authority than the blonde girls.

Within the final section of the clip we see one of the blonde girls telling Saz that they are going to get the diary published and called ‘fifty shades of weird’ which represents embarrassing moments for her. Furthermore the blonde girl speaks in a very sarcastic tone which emphasis how the ‘bondies’ are taking the mick out of Saz because of her diary and how teenage life can be seen in teenage dramas. This also shows which out of the two groups are more powerful and which group has the most authority which sets higharchy in the clip. When the blonde girls walk off at the end of the clip a long shot has been shot to show them walking away. This conveys that they have been the most powerful between the two groups not giving Saz her diary back.