the first time it hits by rosie

The first time it hits
The film opens with a black and white shot from the perspective of a skateboard. It starts to move and rock music starts up, matched to a very quick-cut montage of images of accessories, graffiti, items of clothes, and so on. it then cuts to a close-up of a cigarette, and then to its owner, a blonde-haired girl with a pierced nose, sitting on the floor of a deserted multi-storey car park. It cuts to an image of her blowing bubblegum, followed by quick cuts between her smoking and drawing graffiti. The next shot - still from the skateboard floor-level perspective - zooms smoothly into the car park and the film cuts to short close-ups of eyes that appear to be looking intently at each other. An upward shot shows the skater boy as he stands some distance from the girl, holding his board. Flashes of each character's image are followed by more close-ups of the boy, and of the girl's graffiti of a skull. His hands clutch the skateboard as he swings it under his arm and approaches the girl. An extreme close-up of part of the girl's face extends into repeated close-up side views of each character's staring eye, and of the girl chewing gum. As the camera pauses on a close-up of the boy's eye, a cartoon cut-out heart floats out and opens into a dream sequence in which cut-out images of the boy and girl appear in front of what looks like magazine print almost like they are in it. We cut to a shot of the girl's face to the left of the screen looking forward, and then a shot of the boy to the left of the screen. A thought bubble pops up next to the boy and he imagines himself walking with his skateboard. The bubble expands and becomes an image of the boy and girl, he dreams of volleying over her head and wowing her so that she falls in love (a heart appears in her eye as it did his earlier). We return to 'reality' and the camera cuts rapidly between the boy's, the girl's and the skateboard's view. The boy braces himself and begins to skate towards the girl. He slips and the board flies at the girl's head, knocking her out. The boy goes to check on the girl and, finding that she is unconscious, runs away. As he leaves, the girl opens her eyes and smiles cheekily - she has been awake the whole time