Initial Idea For Opening Sequence

During todays lesson we all individually wrote up our initial ideas and then peer assessed someone else's, this is mine which got peer assessed by Lauryn:


Romantic drama: Set in a house/flat that the couple seems to share, it’s messy and untidy which annoys the woman who has just come back from a business trip abroad. Man drinks a lot and becomes abusive, use over the shoulder shot to show each of the characters speaking so the audience can see their facial expressions and how angry they are, they’re both shouting. Man is tired of the woman always moaning and the woman is angry at how lazy the man has been while she’s been away working hard. Man hits the woman and she falls to the floor in tears, man leaves the room and takes his bottle of vodka with him.

Five things I will need to do to keep within this genre would be:

1. Have the couple argue a lot and then the man storms out of the house/flat
2. Woman calls her best friend and tells her what’s happened
3. Have lots of conflict between the alcoholic man and his partner
4. Have scenes where the woman is just crying and trying to deal with what’s happening to her
5. Have the man realize what he’s been doing to his partner or she kills him

One thing that you could possibly do is when the couple are having the argument instead of an over the shoulder shot use a point of view shot to show their prospective a bit more.

Add more camera angles, for instance you could also use a few close ups on the woman as she starts to get angry or cry to show her emotions building up just before she breaks and they have an argument using a high angle to look over the man to show he’s still being lazy and not caring even though she is the more dominant partner as she has more money and does most of the things.

Where is it set? Tell/show the audience where they are such as a big city or a quieter town.

Peer assessed by Lauryn Corbett :)<3