Finally Figured Out What I Am Doing

OK guys, so my partner, Valeria, and I have finally decided to stick with the genre, teen drama. Vale and I met up today and began to brain storm for about 2 hours as we watched different film openings about drama and horror. In the end, teen drama really caught our eye and made us want to make a film opening about it.

After all the extensive research we did on the genre, we figured out the key of most Drama film openings. There is always a main character which is always the protagonist and sometimes the victim of the story and there is always a conflict which could be a person or situation. We also realized, after watching about 13 different film openings, that many start off with a voice over of the main character explaining his/her life. Another popular way of starting off a drama film was by using many establishing shots to show where the film is taken place. An example of a voice over is Gossip Girl and an example of establishing shots is sex and the city

                                           

 We plan on making an opening scene in which a new family is moving into south Florida because of job offers for the father which forces the family to start from scratch. We are still not 100% sure how we are going to make a story out of this, but we are starting to get all the ideas sorted out. We are going to have to figure out how to get adults to play father and a mother. This is just the beginning and we are going to start a storyboard showing what we plan to do next week. Ill show you guys that in the next blog posting. We are most likely going to go with the establishing shot method since there could be many problems with the voice over method such as the timing and the tone of it. We are going to take pictures of palm trees, the beach, and Miami to show where the opening scene is taking place.

                                

We have also seen that in every drama opening scene that takes place in a school, there are always different groups of people presented in different ways. There are the cool people wearing their cool school sweaters, there are the cheerleaders showing their uniforms off, and then there are nerds dressed up with khakis and a button down with glasses.

       

We are not sure yet what music we want to put in our opening scene as the theme song but we are most likely going to get it from killer tracks or YouTube Audio Library and we also know that we want it to be a high pitched, happy song.

                               

Next week I will be posting our progress with our ideas put all together in a storyboard. I can’t wait to show you guys.