Amy takes drugs to school

Amy takes drugs to school

The first shot is a high angle dolly shot, other a bunch of cubicles in a ladies toilet all empty, then ending showing two girls in one of them, this dolly shot establishes that they are alone, or at least think they are alone, the small space signifies how the shouldn’t both be in there, indexically signifying that they are trying to act incognito in their action.

The toilet is cover in graffiti, signifying law breaking as they are talking about drugs, this environment has been used well to demonstrate they live in a poor area and most kids are like this.

This shot has been recorded at head height, a close up of the girls and pans from one girl to the other, and then stays static at the second girl for a second, this demonstrates how the editor wants the audience to feel as if they are in this toilet with them, and the camera almost acting as a POV shot, from the way the hand held camera moves, we are meant to be in this situation, as the camera like a human, focuses on the main person talking, the pan almost acts as our head moving to focus on the other girl talking.

 

The next close up is again head height, static showing the girl smell the drugs while the other girl almost smiles with an almost evil look, signifying how she is trying to sway the other girl to do drugs, but this is similar to a deal, the customer is trying out the product, this is very similar to a drug deal in the way they are hidden and showing drugs to each other.

The next shot is similar to the last pan, but reversed. This shot has been recorded at head height, a close up of the girls and pans from one girl to the other, and then stays static at the second girl for a second, this demonstrates how the editor wants the audience to feel as if they are in this toilet with them, again handheld, but differently the camera pans over to the other girls again, this quick motion connotates that the environment is getting more tense, foreshadowing something is going to happen, there is a definite trend building as the shots are getting quicker in cuts and camera movement gets faster.

 

After the pan, it is a quick cut to the next shot, another close up at head height, this editing may have been used as a fault with the scene, as this is obviously a different take, as only one camera is in that cubical, this almost acts as a blink, as the long shot which panned twice, for a person they may have blinked, referring to this idea of cinematography making the audience feel like they are present in this cubical.

The next shot is a high angle medium shot of the two girls, this is similar to the first shot of the two girls, demonstrating that these drugs will not get them anywhere in life, they are still where they begin in the clip and drugs will only hinder their life. The toilet is cover in graffiti, signifying law breaking as they are talking about drugs, this environment has been used well to demonstrate they live in a poor area.

This shot is a POV from the girls perspective, this low angle demonstrates this blonde girl on interested in drugs is higher in society than her, signifying that drug takers are low in society and are looked down upon everyone, This shot is shown as a straight cut from this shot to the last, these POV shots demonstrate the conversation between the drug takers and the blonde person.

The next shot is a head height over the shoulder shot, it sees the girls move out of the cubical into the area of the girl, this demonstrates that these drug takers have no real place in society and have to enter a place they aren’t welcome in, where this blonde girl is comfortable and welcome in, signifying to the audience that drugs ruins your life.

 These two shots have straight editing cuts through them, these switch to view the person talking, the rhythm of these shots are fast, the fast tempo signifies that this is a quick argument, both people trying to be as quick in their repsonse, the first shot is a over the head shot, head height of the blonde girl and also a heandheld camera, and the other shot isnt a over head shot, slightly over eye height and also handheld, the use of only one of the shots being over the shoulder demonstrates  how the camera is at the other persons POV, witnessing the argument, but due to this fast tempo cant join in as the tempo is too fast to intervine, as from her POV, the audience is meant to feel stress and anger as in her perspective we can almost empathise for the character not involved. This intereaction happens until the end of the clip.