We decided after extensive film opening research and storyboards, that our two minute film will be of the drama / realistic genre therefore here we only researched the openings of drama / realism films. I analysed the first two minutes of Fish Tank in greater detail as this opening was similar to the opening that we hope to accomplish.
Titles - White font, no music, black background
Background noise - girl heavily breathing.
FIRST SCENE :
titles cut to girl crouched over, breathing heavily in casual - perhaps sports clothes - suggests she has being doing sport, or something physical has been going on. (a chase?)
Cuts to the back of her, showing that she is inside a building - view proves she is high up so possibly a flat? Camera pans around her while she picks up her phone showing more of the environment and view out of the window - phone kicks into answerphone and she leaves a message (camera still panning around her).
"Keeley its me - what is going on... I said sorry didn't i?!"
Shows how shes had an argument with someone - badly spoken "pi**ed off" shows the type of back ground she is from - rough?
Picks up her bags and leaves flat. (Doesn't show her leaving)
Protagonist walks to outside a different flat block: (showing she has left) looks like London, she throws stones at window - young girls sunbathing outside on the grass (doesn't greet them) addresses one of them -"What are you doing?!" shows she knows her well? younger sister maybe?
Man comes out of the flat that she had been throwing stones at - "F*ck off Mia, Keeley ain't here" - same accent, no respect, abusive language. Again, must know him well.
Obviously a relative of Keeley's... protagonist replies with "tell Keeley i think her old man is a c*nt" - very disrespectful language for adults, showing the norms of their lifestyle and how they react and their relationships with one and other is very informal and they don't really have any respect for each other.
After watching these first two minutes of 'Fish Tank' it appears to the audience that the director introduces the protagonist to the audience for the first time and gives a slight insight to whats going on in her life currently, (ie, her dancing, and the phone call she has with her friend making it apparent that there is a strain on that relationship.) This is a very similar approach to how we want to open our film, as we want the audience to have an idea of the protagonist's current situation and how she is feeling in regards to this situation. in order to achieve this, we could take ideas from 'Fish Tank', such as the phone to show the strain on a relationship.
So that we don't just copy the phone shot in 'Fish Tank', we will differ it, in that instead of an actual voice mail being left by the protagonist, there will be no dialogue, but only the view of 7 missed calls from her Mother to show to the audience how it is her Mother pushing the contact, rather than the protagonist.
We can take from these two title minutes of Fish Tank that it is very possible to establish some sort of a beginning to a storyline in the first two minutes of a film opening, as before we were not sure of how we could do this effectively, but using ideas from 'Fish Tank', we now feel that we can.
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