We got the inspiration for our short film, that we will be making, from various films. We did some research to find out about films that already exist which begin with a clip form the end of the narrative and film. We did some research and gained inspiration from films such as: Pan's Labyrinth; Sunset Boulevard; Citizen Kane and Saving Private Ryan. These examples of films are ones in which begin with scenes from the very end, so that the rest of the film is a kind of flashback and we will refer to these when making our film opening.
We decided to make a film in the drama genre, because those are the types of films that we both enjoy watching and have had experience acting out. They are also fun to experiment with when filming.
We decided to go with our first idea which had the film starting with a shot from the end of the whole film, where a girl is lying dead on the floor, almost as a precognition, enabling the audience to get a glimpse into the future and to see how the film will end but not yet knowing hoe the narrative will get to that point. Then the rest of the opening from the short film is going to be a flashback, or will be present tense, showing two friends that are happy in each others company most of the time, but argue a lot, with arguments then becoming more and more escalated, allowing the audience to make guesses about the rest of the narrative and start to work out what is happening.
During the lesson we walked around the school looking for rooms or places that would be suitable to film in and we took pictures of these locations to get an idea of where we would set our film opening. Some of the locations, inspired us to include some extra shots or alter where we were going to film a few of our shots originally.
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