Planning Changes

Plot
One of the main plot points in our film is our main character Megan's mum's pregnancy. When we originally planned our plot, we thought that Megan should find out about this pregnancy about halfway through the the film. However, we then decided that we wanted to introduce this storyline within the opening scene, so that it could be an ongoing issue for Megan throughout this film. In addition, we also wanted to show this storyline in our final product and we were only filming the title sequence and opening scene.

Title Sequence
The main idea of our title sequence did not change, as we always planned to track down the corridor and into the common room. We also planned for one character to run straight in to Megan, causing her to fall over, as this is common in teen angst films. However, when we started filming we decided that we should begin with the main character getting school work out of a locker, which showed that she was at school. Lockers are stereotypically used in teen angst films to represent the location as being at school. This can be seen in films like Juno.  We also shortened the distance that the camera tracks behind Megan in the corridor because we realised it would take too long and it wouldn't be possible to film good quality footage due to some obstructions on the floor.

Opening Scene
Originally, our opening scene was going to start with a shot of Megan's legs underneath the table, before tracking/panning across to show that she was sitting alone whereas everyone else was sitting in groups. We then planned to have Megan texting 'Hazel' during lesson with messages suggesting to the audience that there had been some sort of incident regarding Hazel that meant that Megan no longer sees her. The teacher tells her off for being on her phone making the rest of the class laugh at her. However, after struggling with the filming of tracking on the title sequence, we decided not to track at the beginning of our opening scene. Instead, we just used a close up of Megan, and then a long shot of the classroom to illustrate that she is sitting alone. We also decided to include Megan receiving a text from her mum telling her that she is pregnant. We also decided not to have the class laughing at her when she gets told to put her phone away because we decided that we wanted to start off with people just ignoring Megan, rather than bullying her straight away.