Opening Sequence Group

Presentation

Cerise Clarke, Paula Duru, Mickella Swaby

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images.

These images put together give the illusion of movement and the making of films are regarded as a form of art.

Typically movies are produced in 5 Steps; Development- film is scripted Pre-Production- movie is designed and planned Production- movie is created and shot Post-Production- Clips are cut and edited Distribution- Movie is released to cinemas or to DVD formats

Films

They Are A Sub-Genre of Horror And Thrillers

Psychological – Elements that are related to the mind or processes of the mind

Thriller- A book, film or play showing crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense.

Devices and Techniques; Stream of consciousness First-person narrative Back-story

Psychological Thrillers

Psychological Thrillers

Mind games

Uncertainty

Paranoia

PerceptionExistence

Conscience

Science

Our inspirations

What inspired us about Hard Candy…

What inspired us about Inception…

What inspired us about Memento…

What inspired us about Black Swan

What inspired us about Heavy Rain…

Chosen Theme: Mind The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence, Perception and emotion.

Opening Sequence Theme

Woman of early 20’s finds herself to be pregnant, she’s a law student but later has to drop out of her course due to the pregnancy. She goes back to live with her mother who is very displeased with her current position gives her absolute hell.

She goes out with her supposedly best friend who also turns against her for not knowing who the father of the unborn child is and calls her a lot of insensitive things.

She has an argument with her and storms off home when on the way she gets knocked over by a car.

She wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she got there, she has a baby girl next to her and she doesn’t even remember being pregnant, the doctors then tell her she is suffering with Retrograde amnesia.

To regain her memories she needs to find the diary she writes in daily which can also help her remember the recent events before the accident.

The Plot

Starts with the mother of the main character having a go at her, asking what does she plan to do with her future.

Girl storms to her room and writes in her diary all the anger, depression and loneliness she is experiencing and breaks down.

She phones her friend to tell her she needs someone to talk to as she is feeling very down, However she has a argument with her friend and her friend tells her to just leave her alone.

She runs home and as she steps out in the road she gets knocked over.

Introduce the film title at the end of opening sequence to let the audience calm down after seeing the accident.

Opening Sequences

What we learnt from Torodov/ Propp / Strauss

Is a way in which a story is told.

It can both be fictional and non fictional.

Narrative

What we learnt from the Bulgarian theorist is that some narratives start with a state of equilibrium when everything is normal.

When everything is normal and get disrupted by a bad force the state of normality is changed to disequilibrium.

After protagonists defeats antagonists the disequilibrium state goes back to normal. This is called new equilibrium.

Tzvetan Torodov

All is should be (Normal)

A young 21 year old law student almost at the peak of success

A disruption by event

Young lady becomes pregnant, mother is displeased with her and her best friend doesn’t want nothing to do with her and she gets ran over by a car.

Damage is repaired by disruption and there is a return of restoration

She wakes up alive and traces her past. Things gradually go back to normal a few years later.

What I learnt from Propp is that you can classify characters by their roles and actions.

This links to our opening sequence, because the characters are all different and we could understand each actors key function.

Vladimir Propp

What we learnt from Claude is that stories reflect values, myth and beliefs of culture.

This is expressed in the form of “Binary Oppositions”

In our opening sequence binary opposition will be used to show the main characters 2 qualities at different times. One showing her to be a weak person and then becoming more strong and independent.

Weak Vs STRONG

Claude Levi - Strauss

Storyboard

Age Certificate: 15 Location: Worldwide Gender: Both Genders Social Class: Working Class/ Youth Qualities of the audience; Must have an interest in how society can affect on people lifestyles Open minded to the reason why/how people can make mistakes. Sense of empathy

Target Audience