Teenage romance

Love don't cost a thing



The film starts off with the production logo which was ‘Warner Brothers’ and the hype hip hop music (non digetic sound) about ‘making someone love them’; it then dissolves into the title sequence where the title is in a funky typography, making it seem as if the titles were changing with the rhythm of the soundtrack. The actual movie starts off with an establishing shot of the neighbourhood then zooms into a long shot of a boy on his bike (the geek). We get a sense of character from the way he is dressed and the way he acts.

The geek works as a pool-cleaner and goes to do his weekly route at one of the neighbour’s house, not knowing that the woman’s house... he was going to, her teenage daughter ( the same age as him) was having a party in the garden; however he still agreed to do it. When he entered the party he was welcomed with half naked teenage girls; we could tell that he had never experienced a party like this because of his facial expression (shocked). It seemed like he knew the teenagers as they spoke as if they did... as if they went to his college or high school. He freezes as he notice a beautiful cool girl (the girl that he has always like but she didn’t notice him enough). One of the boys in the party approaches him and says to him ‘people like you never get a chance with a girl like... (Saying her name), this also gives a feeling that they knew each other somehow. The geek then starts day dreaming about the beauty and falls into the pool and then the non digetic sound changes... changing the atmosphere as everyone stopped partying and started laughing at him; they began saying all types of hurtful things (bullying him with their insults); he was surprised when the beauty started sticking up for him and gets the feeling that he has a chance with her.