Film Opening (FIRST IDEA)

For media we have been asked to create a two minute film opening. I have decided to work with Max Winnall and Jodie Nicholls. We had a discussion on what we wanted our two minute film opening to be about. We came up with the idea of young girl who overcomes obstacles in her life as she is forced to work as a prostitute. We knew that we wanted our opening to contain a flashback of some sort that would reveal a back story to our main character.

We decided that our beginning shot would be an establishing shot of a basic room with a young girl sitting in front of a mirror. We would then pan round to look at her to prevent seeing the camera in the mirror. We then thought that we could use an extreme close up of her face to reveal that she has severe facial bruising. We did some research into how to create fake bruises via 'Youtube'. After the extreme close up, the camera will then track back on itself  to create a creepy effect and to show that the young girl has a bruise on her shoulder. She will then cover the bruise and then close her eyes. At this moment we decided to include a flashback. We will edit this footage in order to emphasise that it is a flashback, we could increase the brightness or change the saturation of the clip to black and white, in order to show the change in time. 

The flashback will consist of the main character getting ready to go out, again in the mirror like the previous shot. She will putting red lipstick on and will then kiss the mirror. The camera will then cut to her leaving the room and we will see the door close. We will then cut the footage to show a man taking her into a room.  We will use a mid close up shot of the door closing, whilst this is happening we will hear digetic sounds of bangs and screams. The next scene will show, the young girl re-entering her room, here she will holding money (fake money). She will also be carrying her clothes and shoes whilst wearing a black coat. There will then be a shot of her going through her bag to show the contents, this will include a drug kit, a bag of small powder and underwear. We researched into drug scenes and how they are or-castrated, we decided to use a similar idea to that of the film Pulp Fiction.

The next scene which will be in normal time, which will then show the young girl lying on the floor, she will get up and look at herself in the mirror and hit it off the dressing table which will result in it breaking. She will then fall to the floor and pick up a piece of glass and look once again at her own reflection. The piece of glass will cut her hand, we researched into how to make fake blood in order to make the cut look realistic. This will then be the end of our opening.