Thirteen Going on Thirty

Thirteen Going on Thirty:
Narrative Expectations:
As the credits are playing you hear music in the background that sounds quite cheerful. Then you hear children when it gets to the main scene. Straight away a young teenage girl appears in front of what seem to be a sky background. We can tell that this is the main character of the film but we don't know her name yet. As the camera pulls back you can see a cue of school kids, so straight away we know it is set in a school. In this opening scene it shows the young girl having her school photo taken. It is set in 1987 as it says it in the scene, also the clothes that the kids are wearing look very outdated and old. The main character looks quite nervous and shy to take her picture which can suggest she is not very confident. As the scene goes on the music carries on in the background. She then gets her picture which is not good, the camera moves away to introduce another character who is also a teenager but male. This suggest that he could be her friend, as he greets her he wishes her happy 13th birthday. So far nothing has been going right for Jenna who is the main character, so we hope that everything will change for her on this special day for her.
Shot types:
The first shot is a close up of the main character just before she take her school photo, this is to point out in the beginning that she is the main character. It then slowly pulls back from the close up into a long shot. This is to reveal the setting and the era the the movie is set in. In the beginning there are a lot of close up's showing the expression of the character and who they are. They also use the tracking technique, for example when she is walking down the corridor the camera moves in the direction she is going. But only shows a medium close up of her, not the full length shot. Most of the shots at the beginning flow into each other to the different sets.
Character types:
Jenna, the main character is mostly perceived as a shy un-confident person, because of this we can guess that she is not the most popular girl in school. By the way she dresses and acts tells us that she is quite naive and doesn't have that many friends.