Initial response to the brief

“Trauma”

DRAMA

INSPIRATION• I have always enjoyed watching the captivating title sequences from such as “Looper” and

“Walter Mitty” as they were both really well filmed or/and emotionally evoking. So when given the task to create a title sequence, my first thought out of this was, what do I want to gain out of this? Simply put, I want to evoke an emotional response out of my audience. Possibly something with philosophical connotations too. This means that I do not want to simply copy some cliché blood and guts superhero film or horror, the story line needs careful consideration and therefore possibly be a little bit close to the knuckle. So I think that a drama would be great for this.

• I'm going to include elements from “Walter Mitty” and “Looper,” I like how Looper ends on an enigma, it makes us think everything is normal and then whisks away our expectations a second before the title strikes. And I like the variety of shots in Mitty, the use of focus and the clever use of editing and story.

The ideaIn brief, this is my idea:

Soft piano music plays and a man wakes up in a field, it may be an extremely beautiful field (Must explore MATTE painting to see if possible) he stands up

confused and looks around in awe, after a minute of this he looks down to see blood on his tshirt, (slowly spreading if possible, must research) he looks around panicked, and then lurches forward and onto a busy street, back in the real world. Beside him is his daughter being dragged away by a mugger and he is on the floor lying in a pool

of blood. Slowly a non digetic heartbeat fades up and as his daughter is dragged away, as she goes the heartbeat sound slows down until we get the sound of a heart

machine flat lining, during that moment the title comes up. ”trauma”.

The rest of the film will be spent either finding his daughter or coming to terms with her loss and trying to get back to that magical place he went when close to death.

The Genre and AudienceI think that drama is all about enticing a response, it often has clear representations or implies some sort of message, typically being controversial, and thus the plot of

the film is more complex.

So therefore I know that my audience have to be the more sophisticated A-B audience, so they can comprehend and understand the intended reading from my

film. I think that my film will be taking a route through the “is heaven real?” area and possibly exploring suicide or personal loss in some extent. Because of the more

violent aspect to my piece, I will be targeting the 18+ audience, and due to the fact that it will possibly be very brutal I will target those younger than 45, as I think It will

be a bit too close to the knuckle and violent. In terms of race, gender and sexuality, I will target males, as this film will give

personal identity to males as the piece is a father failing to be masculine enough and save his daughter. Sexuality and race will not play much in the audience as I want to

target as much of the audience as possible due it being an independent film.