• The film begins with the production company logo and film title appearing on screen, where they both eventually fade off the screen. I have chosen to do so, as this is conventional within a coming of age short film to have the titles and production company logos to appear immediately as the film starts. 

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• The protagonist is seen getting ready in the mirror, where she applies make up and puts on all her jewellery. This is shown after the title appears on screen, as I would like the audience to assume that this girl is very gothic and can presume certain aspects of this girl's life just from her appearance. Therefore, I am trying to emphasise the protagonist's costume and make up by having it shown on camera at the start.

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• The protagonist eventually picks up her bag and begins replacing the educational items, such as textbooks and notepads, with things such as oyster cards, make up and a bottle of water. This connotes to the audience that she is uninterested with school and her academic success. This will further allow the audience to categorise the protagonist as an 'emo'.

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• The headphones are placed in the protagonist's ears, where the diegetic sound of her rock music is played to show the audience what type of music she may listen to. This is conventional for the character type I have created, as it rock music. 

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• The protagonist begins to walk towards her unknown destination (to the audience), where conventional locations such as parks and alleyways are used, to follow the iconography of the genre. This allows my film to be conventional in the aspect of the locations used and this is where my voiceover will be played over.

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• Sophie, the protagonist, walks past the school which she attends to make the audience believe she is skipping school to go off to another place which the audience would assume. This again reinforces the idea of her not caring about her academic progress.

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• The voiceover has been located in a conventional point within the film, as it is towards the end of the film. Voiceovers used at the end of a coming of age film are used in Mean Girls, Alone with People and She's a Fox. 

  •   ​"They think I’m the girl sat at the back of the classroom with no friends." - This allows the film to briefly touch upon the theme of desire of acceptance, as this bit of the voiceover shows how the teenage girl is wanting to be accepted by the others in her school, however she is unable to make friends in her class.

  • "Trapped, isolated, lost – all of the things I’ve only ever known to feel when I go to school. The loneliness has taken over me, my life, my everything." - These sentences allow the audience to understand what the heightened, high-pitched sounds were about previously heard when she has her panic attack. The noises are representative of the bullying she has had to deal with since attending school, which she cannot escape. This allows the film to explore themes of bullying, as well as someone who could potentially be facing mental illness issues.

  • "The false perceptions relentlessly thrown at me, they think I’m just the emo of the school who listens to rock music." - This part of the voiceover is aimed to make the audience reflect on their own perceptions of the protagonist, as they have most likely decided that this girl is trouble to society and is no good, which are stereotypes subjected to goth-influenced teens.

  • "What they don’t seem to realise is – all that ever matters about a person is skin deep." - I believed the most effective way to end the voiceover would be to implement the film title's name at the end, where it would summarise the entire life of this teenage girl's life before the events which have been shown in the film prior to the voiceover. It also shows how she is desperate for some attention from other people and to finally be accepted for who she is.

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• After the voiceover, Sophie is seen interacting with another member of her violin class in a polite manner. This has been implemented to show how the assumptions which may have been made about her were untrue and she is actually a well-mannered, intelligent individual. The idea of stereotypes being subverted was taken from the short film 'Lovefield'.

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• The protagonist is seen playing the violin, as this subverts the stereotypes of her being lazy, unsuccessful and unproductive as an 'emo'. She is suddenly portrayed to be very talented and uses the violin lessons as her escape from the reality of school.