After viewing and researching examples of film openings within the drama genre, I decided it was time to begin brainstorming the story I hope to tell in my film opening. As stated in my very first blog post concerning this project, I wish to represent a plot that is familiar to my real life, an aspect I know inside and out. With this in mind, I concluded that a story surrounding mental health would be a fitting one to tell.
I began by contemplating my character. Although, this process was not difficult. I believed it best to model her after myself: a teenage girl attending high school. Expanding on the student aspect of her life, I concluded it that I wanted her struggles and identity to surround her everyday life: waking up, going to school, doing homework, sleeping. In my mind, this character feels lost in her schedule, she feels as though her days are repeating themselves. This character loses her sense of self, simply surviving rather than living.
Consequently, I knew the intro had to depict the character's difficulty appreciating her life. As of now, I envision a scene where the audience follows her daily schedule. In doing so, I want a repetitive pattern to build. Through technical aspects such as mise-en-scene, it will be clear that the schedules are accompanied on different days; however, due to their similarity to one another, the days all morph together, revealing to the audience the main premise/issue of the film. After a base is built with this beginning, I hope to represent the rest of the film with a short but crucial moment between the girl and a therapist, disclosing that the character is struggling and that the movie will follow her mental health journey.
I cannot wait to dive deeper into my research, discovering methods which will make my visions come to life. I am ecstatic to give my all into making everything come true.
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