Thursday, 3 November 2011

Main Task- Brainstorm of ideas

After showing my teacher my preliminary exercise I am now ready to begin to begin the preparation for my main task. This is what I have to do : "Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes."


I have been brainstorming a few ideas and heres what I have come up with so far... 


Genre: Drama
Title: Broken 
  • A young girl is out in the cold in a park. She takes a seat on the bench and looks upset. 
  • She takes her phone out, she looks up thinking about something that is visibly upsetting her. She feels alienated and alone, and she has not seen her mother or been home in months since their huge family argument.
  • She looks down at her phone, making contact with her mother after months, sending a message to her
  • She puts the phone away and looks up, staring into distance.
  • The opening titles begin. 
  • She sees a  flashback of her and her mother doing some shopping, from months ago, before their fallout. They look happy in the scene. 
  • When the flashback ends, she leaves the bench and continues to walk through the park, a few people walk past her and their phones ring. She reaches for hers in a hurry, but realises it was not her phone that was ringing. 
  • The girls answer it and Bella walks away from them in the opposite direction to theirs.
  • Bella then passes a playground. She watches all the children on the playground on swings with their mothers and fathers and looks visibly upset, missing what she had with her mother when she was younger.  
  • As the titles continue, she is standing across the road from her house watching her mother from afar. Shortly after, she crosses the road heading towards her home. Titles come on saying "Broken".


    I chose this narrative because I think it attracts to the audience. A drama storyline in my opinion would appeal more to an audience, at all ages. Also by creating two main characters and putting them in binary opposition to each other, creates a multi-stranded narrative between all the characters in my sequence. I believe that this may attract to an audience, because audiences prefer having tension and drama between two characters, it creates a conflict. 

    This is just an idea that I have come up with individually. I have discussed and shown my idea to my teacher and he approves. I will give it some more thought and adjust a few areas and maybe cut some things out, as the time length is two minutes maximum. I will start my research and planning now and organise what I will be doing. 

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