Genre and Plot ideas

Experimenting with plot

I don’t want to do a poorly put together overdone angst film opening. But I did have some interesting ideas for possible story lines. The first two were based off of lines from a book I recently read called the All for the Game series. The first line is “you gave me a key and called it home” (The Foxhole Court, p.168). I thought of a story where a lost boy with nowhere to call home, meets someone, a friend, who becomes a safety net for him. Who becomes his home. The second line is “you are a pipe dream.” A pipe dream means something that is an  unobtainable dream, and describing a person as such says a thousand words of how much they mean to you. I thought of a story of a person who struggles with undiagnosed psychosis or schizophrenia, and hallucinates another person who is beyond perfect for them. They listen to the person’s problems, they laugh with them, and share truths with them. But once the person is diagnosed and medicated, their friend disappears, along with the light in their life. While these both would make for interesting short films, I could not figure out how to make these concepts make sense as the opening scene to a film.

That is when I thought back to my last Media Studies class, my teacher showed us some film opening examples. All three of them stood out to be. They remain my favorite from all the past projects I watched from my teachers website. One in particular stood out to be. It was a montage portraying the "obsessed artist" trope. The student was able to capture the art beautifully, with incredible high key natural lighting. That's how I decided that I wanted to create something of this sort. I wanted to stay away from a dark or gloomy and focus on something that can leave the viewer in the same state of awe I was in.