My Project Idea
After a lot of consideration, research, and planning, I finally have the final draft of what I will do with my film opening project.
I'm going for a sci-fi, post-dystopian to dystopian movie. I want my project to start with the end. In that it starts with a world after war and disaster at the hands of a corrupt government/regime. Then, it flashes back to the cause of it, as in how the world in the movie got there.
It'll start with a young woman, dressed in old clothes worn from time and distress. She has bruises and cuts over her skin. And she walks along an isolated train station, polluted with already rummaged through suitcases as she holds an old tote bag in search for something. As she kicks around the suitcases, she approaches one and zips open a compartment that hasn't been looked through yet. In the compartment, she finds a golden locket on a necklace. After looking at the gleam of the yellow gold, she tosses it inside of the suitcase and looks further to find a can of tuna.
She sits down and rolls the lid of the can open to take a bite. . . and the scene transitions into the second part, some years before.
We see the main character in the dining room with her younger sibling and parent having a meal before the day begins. As they eat over boxes covered with an old bed sheet, the main pleads that her dad get home early to celebrate her sister's birthday, and the father dismisses it as there's nothing he can do. While they talk the camera pans in on the background outside the window, on a situation between an officer and a civilian. It quickly escalates to get violent but the father gets up and closes the blinds, ignoring it. They get back to their conversation.
As I discussed in my last blog post, I want to use different symbols to represent the state of the world in a way the audience can recognize.
My Project Inspirations
Though the story I'm telling isn't particularly inspired by another, some of the aspects I used to identify it and my genre are. Pieces of media that inspired me were The Last of Us (game & series), The Hunger Games, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Mickey 17.
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