Shot List

The use of a point of view shot not only creates a sense of continuity throughout the entirety of the opening sequence, but also disrupts Mulvey's 1975 theory of females being used as sexual objects for the audience and characters as it avoids showing our protagonist until the end, which prevents any sexualising of her character. With the rest of our two minute clip, we're hoping to continue to create a visual collage with a retro style fitting to indie films such as Napoleon Dynamite, because we break conventions of classic Hollywood films by not revealing the main character but instead we use a range of interesting angles to reveal CLOSE UPS OF surf related props in the shop, LONG SHOTS OF the beach to help establish the setting for the film, TRACKING SHOTS of her walk down to the beach and HIGH ANGLES of the characters feet.
Teen films tend to follow the aspect of the Uses and Gratifications Theory, which was developed in the 1960s and then expanded in 1974 by Blumer and Katz, that a reason why audience will consume a media text is because of personal identity. This is the idea that audience watch films in order to identify with the main character, and the use of a point of view shot is definitely a strong factor contributing towards this, as well as the use of a character similar to our primary target audience. We use a variety of shots to keep our credit sequence interesting. However we ensured to use some long establishing shots that are a convention of every title sequence, as it’s essential to set the scene straight away so can’t be excluded.