Strcuture of the film

For the structure of my film I am going to use the basic Todorov structure. I have chosen this structure as most teen dramas reflect that structure.










The film will start with an equilibrium, the characters will be introduced and the audience will then get to see how the characters are in terms of personality etc. I will reflect their personalities through mise-en-scene and therefore the audience will establish themselves with the characters and know whether or not to emphatise with the protagonist or not.

The disruption within the narrative will be when the main charatcer discovers she is pregnant.This will come after we have established the type of character she is and the impact this disruption will have on her life. The disruption will come quiet early within the film this is so that the rest of the film can explore the different issues that the disruption has on her life, and will explore choices she has to make in order to sort her life out.

The quest will be exploring who she is as a person and this will draw the audience within the narrative a lot more. The quest will explore choices that mean teen parents face and the strruggle to cope the unexpected news. The quest will also focus on how different people percieve teen pregnancies and how the individual deals with these predjudices.

The resolution will resolve a new equilibrium and this will the point at which the protagonist has the baby. This will establish a new resolution within her life and will therefore discover her virture and will resolve the issues she's been trying to resolve throughout the film.


The sequence I am going to focus on will be the disruption but most importantly the time she finds out she is in fact pregnant. I wanted to focus more on this scene because I liked the idea of using close ups to show the protagonists facial expressions to express feelings and emotions. I also like using the disruption sequence so that the audience can build up an empathy with the characters.


I have also been considering a story type and have decided to focus on the unrecognized virtue, I have taken influence from Juno for this because during the film we see her searching for herself. We see her considering factors in life which she needs to change in order to recognized what her purpose in the world is. In the film Juno we see how she battles to come to terms with the person she has become and the person she wants to be.  During the film we see her ups and downs and this makes us empathise with her more and engages us more into her storyline.

I like this close up from the film Juno as I like the way the audience are draw to the fear in her eyes and can visibly see how the news that she's pregnant has devestated her.






I like this medium shot of Juno in the car. This is taken from the scene were Juno finds her situation to much to deal with. The medium shot shows Juno centered framed and she looks packed into this one place which could reflect her place of mind of been trapped into this situation which she never asked for.