Our Film Opening - DAY 1

I have decided to work with Prima and Claire as we have very similar ideas and different skills that we believe would be able to produce an interesting piece for this project. During our discussion, we decided to do a psychological thriller opening:


We brainstormed some ideas and came up with a brief plot in order to make the production process easier. To start off, we fused some ideas of movies to create a unique character that we will base our opening on. We came up with a character who is unique and has a mental illness so that it fits in with our genre.

TITLE : LIMERENCE

Our opening sequence is going to focus on creating tension by slowing revealing the character's dark intentions and her true self, leaving the audience eager to know what will happen next.

1. Wall full of faces of beautiful celebrities
2. panning of camera from wall/around the room to the entrance of toilet
   
3. close up of woman in front of mirror
   
4. plucks white hair - exaggerated diegetic sound
   
5. touches skin (aged, flaky and with wrinkles) while heavy breathing
   
6. sudden fast faced camera work reflecting her emotions
   
7. walks to desk
   
8. close up of vinyl needle playing (focused on vinyl but blurred background can see woman walking towards desk)
   
9. woman starts cutting pieces of magazine faces
   
10. zoom in of rusted scissors and messy workplace
    
11. shot of her back bending over desk hunched over (can see spine and aged skin)
    
12. slowly pan to show finished work of complete collage
    
13. zoom out to see the whole room + entrance of toilet
    
14. dead body can be seen hanging out of bathtub with curtains
    
15. camera focuses on dead body
    

We went with the title "Limerence" as we wanted our title to be short, with a deeper meaning that links with our character. The word "limerence" reflects our character's desire and obsession towards looking young beautiful.