Verisimedia: Early ideas

Our first idea

A teenage girl an argument with her mum who kicks her out of the house. She turns to alcohol and one drunken night she breaks into her house and is arrested. She's sent to a youth rehabilitation centre where she see's other teenagers in worse situations than she is. Reluctantly she begin to let the youth workers in, one women in particular and as the film progresses we find out about the girl's life in detail and exactly why she was arrested.

The opening of the film would start with her travelling on a bus to her house, walking down the road and breaking in. Now in the house she would look at family photos and items which would remind her of the argument (shown through flash backs). Sirens are heard and we would like to end the scene with her being put into a police car by a policemen.

Whilst discussing this idea, we started imagining some of the shots we'd like to use in our film opening, as shown in the picture on the left.

This is a CU shot of some leaves with water droplets on them. We'd really like to have the opening set in the rain, or just after rain for pathetic fallacy uses. Her sadness is shown through the rain. This CU will be a nice was of showing this.

Once we've found our actors, we'll need to get some pictures of them to use for shots such as this one. We'll have shots of our actress looking at the pictures in frames, to show that she used to have a good relationship with her mother.

When she is on the bus, we'd like to have some shots of the street life outside, maybe even some rain on the window if that is possible.

Although its hard to tell from this rough drawing, this is a Mid-shot of the mother and daughter during their argument. We liked the idea of the girl having flashbacks of the argument when she's in the house. If the flashback shots appear different to the regular shots in some way, like a filter or a change in focus, it will make it more obvious that there has been a time shift.