13 Going On 30 - 2 Minute Introduction Analysis

This film starts by showing a sparkly blue screen with the film title in pink writing in the middle of the screen. This then cuts to picture of the main character, Jenna, on a desk in the main corrindor in her school. At this point the camera is looking straight down at the table and picture
and a pair of hands come in from the bottom of the camera on pick up the picture of the desk. The camera then moves up from the hands up the body until Jenna's face comes into view. There is then a close up of her face as she looks at her pictures and a look of shock register's on her face.
There is then a mid shot of Jenna's head and shoulders as she starts walking down the corridor still looking at the pictures with a look of horror on her face. As she is moving further down the corridor, the camera is zooming out until there is a long shot of her whole body still looking at the pictures as she's walking.Whilst all this is happening the music is still playing that had been playing since the beginning. Whilst Jenna is walking down the corridor, the music is still playing and the names of the main actresses ans actors and the directors come on the bottom of the screen in bright pink writing, so as to catch the attention of the audience.
The music then bursts into a much louder, faster, energetic music as a door behind Jenna bursts open a whole load of school children come through the door. One of the school children is a boy who is Jenna's best friend. As he is walking through the door he is taking pictures of everyone with a camera that he has around his neck. There is then a mid shot of the boy's face as he turns around and see's Jenna. He takes his neck off from around his neck and the camera zooms in to the camera as he is adjusting the lens on it.
The camera then cuts back across to a mid shot of Jenna who is still looking at her pictures that she has just fetched. There is there a long shot of the boy creeping up behind Jenna and putting a camera in front of them both and taking a picture of them both, without Jenna knowing what he is going to do.
There is a mid shot of them both as they start talking and whilst they are talking you can see her pulling her pictures towards her chest so that the boy can't see how bad her pictures are.
At this point, the music is still playing and as the camera cuts across the corridor to the main hall door and there is a clapping sound as a group of six girls walk into the corridor. There is a tracking shot as the girls walk down the corridor in a line so that people have to move out of the way as they are coming through. It is very obvious from the way they are all dressed and from the way people, especially girls, cower away from them as they are walking. The six girls stop in front of Jenna and the boy, and the camera does a long shot on them all as they start having a conversation of them all.
There is then a mid shot on them as the camera swaps between the six girls and Jenna and the boy.
The main girl from the six girls starts asking Jenna how her picture turned out, and because she doesn't want to show them her, she just say 'Oh, not to good!'. Jenna then asks the girl how her's have turned out, and she just says, 'Oh, mine neither!'. However, all the other five girls are laughing and saying how they are amazing and the best in the whole school. So, the main girl goes on to get her picture out and the camera zooms in 0n the picture, which is amazing, as all the other five girls had said.
The camera then zooms back out to a long shot and the six girls go on to say something nasty about the boy, so he tells Jenna that he will meet her outside, and he starts to leave. As he walks past them, all six girls move away from the boy and look at him in disgust as though he's a piece of rubbish!
The main girl of the group of six asks to talk to Jenna privately, and the camera pans across the corridor with them as they move across the room. The camera zooms in on them as they start talking about Jenna's 15th. birthday party that is taking place that night. The girl says that none of the girls are able to go to the party as they have got a priject to do for school and that there is a boy coming over to help her with aher work and as he's not been invited to the party then she didn't want to just turn up with him at the party uninvited. As she is saying this, the camera is zooming in on the girl. The girl then goes on to explain that that meant that she would be unable to go to her party.
The camera then goes on to a mid shot of both girls and Jenna says that she should bring the project to her house that night with her and that she would do it for them. She also says that she could bring as many boys to the party that night as she wanted too.
There is then a long shot of all the girls and the main girl of the six, signals for them all to follow her and the camera pans across the corridor as they walk off back in one single line. The camera then goes on to zoom in on Jenna's face to a close up and she has got a big grin on her face because she has managed to get some of the coolest people in her school to come to her party. The camera then cuts back to the group of six girls and they are all laughing as they have managed to get away from doing their work and they get to go to a party out of it as well. However, Jenna doesn't realise this as she is just happy that they are all coming to her party and she thinks that they are laughing because they are happy that they can still go to her party!