Inspiration- A girl like her

A girl like her takes on a completely different style of filming. By reflecting the styles of a POV camera piece it showcases the private and public lifestyles of two girls, providing insight into a girl who bullies someone who ends up committing suicide. This piece gave us inspiration as our narrative involves our actress attempting suicide and in our shooting script we planned to have a variety of POV shots of Grace coming out of the woods after she has been attacked.

The film makes a statement on how everyone around the girl who commits suicide has some part to play in her act and this helped us when we were planning what shots to include in our main product due to our commentary on how society fails victims of sexual assault.
A Girl Like Her also helped to influence our piece as the film focuses in around the mental health of teenage girls, this helped us with our piece as we were aiming to represent this age group as realistically as we possibly could. Some of our original shot ideas were taken in school and we had similar shots of bullying from other students as seen above.

We were able to use this idea of POV filming to connect more with the audience in a disorientating sequence of clips that are cut against shots of the rape occurring. We decided that this would be particularly effective as watching A Girl Like Her puts you in the place of the suicide victim and therefore by having the same camera shots were were able to utilise this idea of bringing the audience in and get them to feel the same way.