Ideas and Inspiration

    This blog is going to delve into the final idea that me and my partner have developed for our film opening and some major inspirations that contributed to our ideas. The idea that my partner and I have come up with is an opening that will focus on a teenager that has been struggling with mental health and life at home deciding to a "escape" from his problems and sneak out from home in the middle of the night and only bring what they need leaving everything else behind. The message that we wanna portray to the audience is that even though the character is going through a rough patch in his life and everything is looking down for him the answer to fixing problems isn't just abandoning your problems and rather fixing them at the root to truly find closure and grow as a person. We also felt it was appropriate to make our project based on experiences and feelings that our group and many teens are all too familiar with as not only can we provide a deeper understanding to our characters actions, but there's also a connection that many audience members can feel.

  The other significant source of inspiration to our project is the other coming of age movies that dwell on the inner battle teenagers face and the way this inner conflict contributes to their development. Most of these movies feature characters who have to grapple with a sense of isolation, disorientation, or stress in the surrounding world which is what we were hoping to capture in our story. Through these types of films we intend on inspiring to create an opening that does not only establish the character and his state but also the emotional quality of the rest of the story and give the viewer a clue as to why the character feels he even needs to get away in the first place.