ConventionDrama

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

ClimaxUse – Teenage girl falling to the ground recklessly with the audience not knowing what will happen to her next with her health and what she’s hallucinating

Purpose – To show the harm of drugs and what it can do to your health and your mindDescription – The girl will stop, hold her chest and fall to the ground in slow motion to show the seriousness.

She falls to the ground from heart failure while still

hallucinating

RealisationUse – The girl will hold her chest realising something's wrong

Purpose – To make the audience feel sympathy for her and realise that this is a serious situationDescription – The girl will (in slow motion) hold her chest and fall to the ground

She realises she’s seriously ill

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ConventionDrama

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Emotions

Happiness

Excitement

Loneliness

Depression

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Use – Her life is at ‘equilibrium’ she's partying just like a normal teenager would.

Develop – A normal teenage excited about her time taking the drug, however its showing something illegal in a positive light.

Use – Her and her friends go through conflict and the main girl has no more friends.

Develop – A young girl hurting her self to an extent of it being quite gory and startling the audience

Purpose – To show a typical teenage girlDescription – The girl has just taken LSD and is in a good state feeling really good

Purpose – To show where the problem startedDescription – The girls friends introduce her to the drug and she is excited to try it for the first time

Purpose – To show that friends can get you in bad situation and then aren't there for you when it all goes wrongDescription – She argues with her friends and they get into a fight over money (for the drugs)

Purpose – To show how drugs can mess you up and ruin your life and mindDescription – The girl is in the bathtub cutting herself very deep into her arm with blood pouring everywhere

She is heavily partying, having fun

Its her first time using the drug

She fights with her friend

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ConventionDrama

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Develop – As she's a teenage girl who takes drugs which many girls can relate to but were developing it by showing what she's seeing and thinking as well.

Purpose – To show the audience the effects and risks of taking LSD and the mind games it causes

Description – You see and hear what she's hallucinating seeing how frightening it is

Point of view colours and characters she’s seeing

Characters you can relate to

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Inspirational ScenesAlice in Wonderland – 1951/2010

There is a theory that Alice in Wonderland is a film about a girl on drugs, which the colours and characters hugely inspired me in the hallucinating aspect of our opening sequence.

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A character that’s very scary and creepy

During a bad trip you see things that are frightening so this Cheshire cat from Alice in

wonderland (2010) inspired me to crate a character with similar features that will frighten Laura

when hallucinating.

Confusion for the character

During a bad trip as well as being frightened you also become very confused so in the scene where Alice is confronted with many

signs of where to go they all point in every direction, directing her the same thing, which inspired

me to confuse my character in a similar way of using sings

When you are hallucinating on LSD you can see things in slow or fast motion and the scene at the

dinner party with Mad hatter inspired me to speed up my

characters in Laura’s hallucination to make it seem more bizarre and

dizzy

Characters moving very fast

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Inspirational Scenes

The last song - 2010

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The song played by piano in the last scene – emotions and focus

The song played on the piano in The last song created a lot of emotion and focus towards the girl on the piano, which inspired us to use during our flashbacks. The pace and sound of the piano creates a lot of sympathy and understanding of the character. We want to use this so the audience will understand Laura’s struggle.

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Inspirational Scenes Sanel

Romeo and Juliet both having a good time.Romeo and Juliet-1996

Romeo and Juliet is inspiring to us because there structure starts of with new equilibrium by showing how happy they are and then ends up getting married but it ends with a disequilibrium as they both kill themselves to send out a message to there parents which is inspiring to our opening sequence because we want to send out a message to our target audience knowing that she was happy at the start but then dies at the end to show are target audience how LSD is not good.

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Inspirational Scenes Sanel

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-1974

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inspiring to us that the slow motion was effective as it focuses on the details slowly showing us that something that had happen was important. So when we do are slow motion of Laura falling to ground you can see how the slow motion emphasise the fall.

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Inspirational films Altered states

colourful hallucination

This inspired my group because we also will be using

hallucination to show the characters mental state.

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Inspirational Films4321

• The point of view shot allows the audience to share the view of the character. We are going to include point of view shots in our opening sequence.

• It clearly conveys a lot of the characters’ emotion to the audience. We are going to include close up shots in our opening sequence.

• We were inspired by the point of view shot shown in the film.

• We were inspired by these close up shots of Shannon and Joanne shown in the film.

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Inspirational FilmsPrecious

•We were inspired by these establishing shots shown in the film.

•These establishing shots show the lack of privileges Precious has in her life through these images of her deprived community.

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Kaya & Sanel Theme and ConceptPreviously, our Theme was Possession and our Concept was Kidnap.

What Went Well• The idea was unique, no other previous opening sequences did this idea• It suited our genre, it would scare our audience• It created enigma, climaxing to a point so the audience would watch more

Even Better If• The idea was too complicated, not many people understood the plot fully• To make it more simple, not to have too many things going on at the same time• To focus on either possession or kidnap

• So… We changed our Theme and concept because we changed our genre, therefore we had to make it so it can connect with the conventions of drama.

• We also wanted to relate to our audience more and make the film more ‘real’ to them.

• However we wanted to also send out a message that can educational the teenagers that would watch the film.

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Theme and Concept• To come up with out new Theme and Concept we all decided to without thinking about

the genre, come up with a completely new idea. • We all wanted an idea that could relate to our audience, making it seem more real to

them. Therefore Kaya came up with the idea of hallucinating. • We then as a group like the idea of it and thought we could connect with the reality of

drugs to send a message to our target audience, about what drugs can do to you negatively.

Theme:Drugs

Concept:Hallucination

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Research on the drug LSDLysergic Acid Diethylamide

What is it?Invented by Albert Hoffman, LSD, is a powerful hallucinogenic drug, which makes the user see distorted views of objects, reality and hearing things that aren’t there. This is known as a ‘trip’ and once you start using it, it’s hard to stop.

Users of LSD may experience some bodily effects, such as:• Increased blood pressure and heart rate• Dizziness• Loss of appetite• Dry mouth• Sweating• Nausea• Numbness• Tremors

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Research on the drug LSDLysergic Acid Diethylamide

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This is a video from Talk to Frank about who made LSD, what it does, why people hallucinate and how the body controls it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCePaxzEds

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Research on the drug LSD

What LSD can look like

It can be a crystal – if its touched, you can become very high as it is absorbed through the skin

It can be a liquid (when the crystal is dissolved in water), however it is not strongIt can be on blotter paper. When

the paper is dipped in liquid acid which trippy art painted on it

It can be a sugar cube which has a drop of liquid acid put in it

It can come in microdots, which are small pills in many colours

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Research on the drug LSDLysergic Acid Diethylamide

How we will show the effects of LSD in our opening sequence:

• Laura will be very pale to show she's unhealthy and sweaty

• She will have flash backs

• The flash backs will be in slow motion

• Laura will hallucinate colours, sounds and images

• Her hallucination will be in fast motion

• She will have heart failure

• She will be in pain and feeling really depraved

• Have confusing signs everywhere around where she's walking

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