ShotList :)

For our first scene, we want to do scene cutting, going from one girl to another. We wanted this scene to show the girls getting ready because they're the type of girls that care about their looks more than anything. We used the film example Legally Blonde to give us ideas for how to show this scene because we didn't want to show the characters full faces until later on. We decided to show them this way because it's like the girls break up their faces to create the perfect part and then join it all together to create the "perfect package". When it comes to Mise-en-scene, we will have to take into consideration that with ideas such as painting nails, we need to relate it to the typical girly girl by painting them a colour such as pink and using a surrounding mirror desk to show how they focus on their appearance. 
- For the lips and mascara we need to make sure the extreme close ups don't show too much of the face because the idea of cross cutting between the girls is to show seperate parts of them and not show the full girl because the point is to make them up so they look created. 
- For the shoes and jewellery, we used a close up (sticking to the rule of not showing full person). We wanted to show them applying their final detail as if to say every part of them needs to be decorated to look perfect to their audience and 'followers'. 


For our second scene, we wanted to introduce the setting for the film (a school) after we had shown the main characters. For this scene we plan on using the same music throughout the whole opening so there will be no dialogue. We thought an establishing shot would be best for showing such a large setting because it just presents it all and makes a change from our close ups and extreme close ups in the first scene. After presenting the girls in sections it seems like the first thing you would see after this would be the girls being ready but we changed it to the school to create more suspense for the girls appearance. 
- The point of view shot for the girls was a way to show how they are important because we see that they are so important that people fear them and love them enough to open doors for them which they are perfectly able to do themselves. We also thought it would be a good idea to show through their eyes because it leads up to finally seeing them. 
- We then flipped so we are inside the school and we finally get to see the girls walk through with the music still playing (now becoming louder and perfectly in tune with their body language). We thought this long shot idea was the best way to show them because we see them walking through the corridor as if they own it because everyone stands out the way to let them come through (which relates to the song being played). 
- By using a tracking shot, it gives the feeling of being one of their followers because the camera stays with them the whole time. By watching them knock into Ellie and knocking her books out of her hands, Ellie is introduced to us. As they knock into her, the camera is now being passed on. 
- By using a close up of the paper under the shoe, we are then introduced another character; Kelly (unsocial, individual.. hates the bitches). 
- The shot of Ellie picking up her paper then shows Kelly coming down to her level and helping, which shows the beginning of a friendship but because Kelly and Ellie are so different, you wonder if one may change? 
- We then use a high angle shot and a low angle shot to exchange dirty looks between the bitches, Kelly and Ellie. By using this type of shot, we are showing status but by the look Kelly is able to give off, we see that things may start to change.