Exciting News!

Hey! This week has been pretty productive week for my group. We have finally decided what we want our film opening to be!

                                                     

Before I tell you our idea, let me share the process behind finding the story we are excited to produce!

From the beginning, my group was set on doing a film opening within the drama genre. We realized how broad the genre itself was and began thinking of sub-genres. Some sub-genres we thought of were mystery and psychological. We really want our film to be unique, so we tried to think of less typically used genres.


                                                         


Our first idea was to produce a drama-mystery film opening. We thought of a story which consisted of a detective, in the 1920s or the 1950s, trying to solve a puzzle involving a couple. We didn’t think very far into it since we quickly started bouncing other ideas off each other and this one didn’t stick out any of us. However, we knew this would also involve a great amount of preplanning for props and to make sure the set design was accurate for the time period needed.

As we kept thinking, we all really liked the idea of following a psychological drama film opening. Although we knew acting would be super important, we thought it would be really a interesting idea. We wanted to incorporate an “alternate universe” somehow within the character. This could be done in a few different ways, but we thought of making something that visually looked normal, however it would be unique in its own way. An example used to help of think of this was “Children of Men”.

                                                             

As we constantly kept bouncing ideas off one another, we thought of making a specific individual unique. For example, in “Forest Gump”, Forest was a unique individual which helped develop the story. Another example we thought of was “Split”, as the main character in the film carried 23 different personalities.

                                                

All of these ideas helped us come to our final decision of a film opening. We decided to create a psychological-thriller which incorporated aspects of a drama film. We want our film to follow a story about a main character who lives with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and likes to be very familiar with their surroundings, therefore, they follow a strict routine everyday. However, the character is kidnapped, leaving them to be forced out of their regular environment and into a new one, which becomes difficult for the main character to live in.

For the film opening specifically, we want it to showcase a scene that would typically be shown towards the end of the film in order to draw attention and keep the audience engaged and curious. Then would show credits and the title, and show a scene that would occur in the beginning of the film to make it clear that the event that previously occurred were about events they will learn more about as they continue to watch the film. After the title, the audience will get to learn more about the main character and the build up to the climax. Make sure to stay tuned to find out our movie title!

Be sure to let me know what you think about our idea for our film opening in the comments below!

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