The title is produced through text message format therefore we can tell its going to be about someone young as we always relate texting with youths.
The film starts with a long shot of the silhouette of the girl, this makes us wonder who she is, it’s a mystery. We don’t know what she looks like or who she is, so it makes the audience want to watch on to find out who she is. It also makes her look quite secretive as we can’t see her face. The song she sings "stronger" by Britany Spears represents that she is a strong woman who has to put up with thing that make her stronger each day. Also Britany Spears had just started going of the rails about this time so we could look at the song being chosen to suggest that something wrong has happened to her. The basis of the film is her speaking to a camera, a free hand camera is used this creates a rushed feeling and unsteady life style. It represents that she is a rush as she is also speaking fast it also helps us feel unsteady which represents her life. As she talks we see clips of her life, with her dad, her mum and friends. These usually link to what she is saying, from what she is saying and what we see, we can tell she has had a rough life and is treated so well by her family. We can tell this through her dad ignoring her and not talking to her, her mum doing the same thing and having a go at her. There are a lot of quick edits whilst she is speaking to show her from different angles but they are almost always close ups. By doing this again it creates a fast paced feeling and disjointed one with there being lots of edits. The fact that there are a lot of closes up focus the audience’s attention to what she is saying, therefore we never notice the bag she is carrying till the end and when there are two long shots of her firstly carrying it and secondly sitting over the canal with it next to her. The lighting through out is dark, this gives the idea that her life is dark and that there is something dark going on which we find out at the end. In one of the clips of her life she is at a pub it starts with a close up and then pans around while zooming out which reveals her on her own eating crisps singing. It shows she is alone and that her dad doesn’t really care about her, he is inside having fun which we can here from the digetic noise of the people in the pub. Towards then end she starts talking about her and her sister getting a dog, this starts of innocent till she mentions her mum finding it and asking the neighbours to throw it in the canal. We then see her standing by the canal with a bag staring at the water. then a close up from a long angle shows her saying "I got dead good at hiding things from then" she then throws something in the water and we are still not sure what it is. However then a shot from underwater from a low angle looking up at the bag, we see blood and a baby coming from it. There are then slow edits of different angles of the baby as we have finally found out what the whole point of the story was, so edits slow up. we then watch the bag drift down stream and then a slow zoom out as the girl walks away showing that her problems are easy to dispose of. She starts to sing her song again; this represents the idea that although something bad has happened she won’t let it stop her from being stronger.
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