Nine-frame analysis- Fast Girls

                                               

The first frame is the production company credit which fits in with the conventions of a chick flick and is an aspect of creating my movie introduction that I will need to think about. This shot lasts for 20 seconds.



Next, The British Film Institute is credited as this was the company that funded the film. This shot lasts for 8 seconds.





In the third frame, we see an initial shot of what we assume to be the main character as well as surrounding photographs, this gives the viewer an initial and minimal idea of what the character in like and maybe hints towards the character replaying the past?



The fourth frame once again, kept the identity of the main character hidden by not revealing her face, therefore we see a shot of the character from behind. The following clips are accompanied by diegetic sound of the radio in the background.

 Finally, in the fifth frame, a shot is shown of the character from the front. Like many conventional chick flicks the character is shown getting ready.

However, unlike many chick flicks, during these few shots the cutting is much faster briefly showing different aspects of her getting ready.

The seventh shot shows a reflection of the character continuing to get ready, the shot is only two seconds long, within a sequence of other very short shots, this could give the viewer the assumption that the character is in a rush or is careless in regards to appearance?

As we come to the final few shots of this sequence, we see the character grabbing her belongings. The alarm clock displays the time 6.13am, showing that although the film only shows around 30 seconds of footage, in real time the events would have gone on for 13 minutes as the clock displayed the time 6.00am in the first shot.

In the final shot, the character who we now assume to be the main character is seen putting her headphones in and quickly leaving the room in which she is in.