INITIAL IDEAS FOR FILM OPENING

During today's Media lesson, my group consisting of Me, Prima and Eye came up with some initial ideas for our 2 minutes film opening.
We agreed on the sub genre Psychological Thriller and brainstormed our ideas.

Here is the outline of shots and narrations we came up with and in chronological order:

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

INSPIRATIONS

- Buffalo Bill, the main antagonist from the film Silence of the Lambs. In the film and the novel, he is a serial killer who murders overweight women and skins them so he can make a "woman suit" for himself

- Dame Gothel from Rapunzel who traps and uses the young girl to stay youthful.

- Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman where she periodically drains the youth from the kingdom's young women in order to maintain a spell cast over her as a child by her mother which allows her to keep her youthful beauty

From the narration and initial character development, we decided on the title of the film : Limerence

the definition of this word is 'the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person' this can be linked to the character whom is obsessed over her youthful past and state and yearns to stay young forever.