Intertextuality is where a media text has shown similar features that have come from another text. In media texts that have been created the inspiration has developed from another media text that has been seen. The inspiration for my media text was Pretty Little Lairs and Mean Girls. The mystery part of my film came from Pretty Little Lairs as throughout the series the girls are receiving unknown text messages, there are also many crimes and killings that occur without any explains as to why. The person who has commented the crime is not shown until a few episodes or series after however due to mine media text being a short film I had to have a closed ending where I showed who the killer was. Another typical convention of mystery films is showing the location in which the murder is taking place with a sound effect rather than showing the actions taking place themselves, I've done this where the picture of the empty woods is shown along with the sound of the scream and gun shot over the top. Throughout Pretty Little Lairs things always end up having many different twists and turns throughout the series which is why I wanted Lilly to kill Hannah rather than 'Black Hoodie' or Megan as that is what would have been expected. 
As well as looking at Pretty Little Lairs for inspiration I used typical teenage films like mean girls and wild child. This is shown through the bitchyness that the three girls have all together and the ways that they are horrible to Megan. However within the clique of three means girls there is typically one girl that isn't as mean as the other two which throughout my film was Lilly. Lilly was the able to stand up to Hannah as much as she could throughout the film however Emily would also side with Hannah over her which made Lilly give up with what she was trying to say.
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