Thursday 8 January 2015

My Film Opening ideas #2

Since my previous mind map, my ideas have developed further concepts and ideas. I have decided to go down a route of a powerful object; this being a book.

The girl will be the main character in a book she is reading and she soon realises this as the character in the books life is scarily similar to her own. I have many ideas for where the girl may find this book and how she will come into contact with it, for example her grandma may have left it to her or she finds it in the attic at her home. I have also come up with what it is the girl reads or finds out in the book and how she realises that it is her; they own the same thing or as she turns a page she guesses the rest of the sentence and is correct. The natural reaction to this would be that she is shocked and doesn't know what to do and that the curiosity takes over.

Some things I thought the girl could have found out were that her friends weren't her actual friends, or the reason she didn't get into music school was because of her parents. Other pieces of information could be about her future, that her dad wins the lottery and becomes unfaithful to her mother or that the boy she likes already has a girlfriend or even that she does eventually get into music school. These future truths would change the way she acts and could almost break her family.

Up until now I have two ideas for delivering this story, either by this girl telling a story about her past - for example like rose in Titanic, or that she tells it in the present. I am more towards the girl telling a story about her past but in a less obvious way - like the opening for twilight where there is a monologue, however I would only like the monologue to last a few seconds.

Finally, two concepts I have for the book is that either the stories only come true as she reads them because its an evil book, or that the book was written by an older version of herself warning her about life so that she can get it right the first time.

Below is the mind map I made including all of the above.




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