Brainstorming ideas is a very important step when starting your film opening. These ideas will structure your opening and help explain the story. When starting my research I decided to look at more film opening so I could try and get some inspiration. The opening I decided to watch was to the film "Stand by Me." This film focused around the idea of an unbreakable adolescent friendship, facing trauma/fear, maturing as a person, and a few other key ideas. This film helped me strengthen my knowledge of coming of age films, and help get an understanding on how coming of age dramas are structured. In past blog posts I have reviewed a few other film openings and have taken notes on how they're all structured and have noticed that they all share very similar elements but are all a little bit different. While they may seem similar they all have key details that make them unique. Whether that's that character themself, the mood given off the by the film, or the theme that is being portrayed.
Putting It Together:
After watching a few different coming of age drama openings I now have a pretty good idea of what I want my film opening to look like. It will follow the structure that most coming of age films. This includes the character maturing both physically and mentally, some kind of traumatic event, a voice-over of the protagonists thoughts to help the audience understand the internal conflicts that are going through the characters mind. All these elements combined will bring the film opening together and give the audience a general idea of the rest of the film is about. They will also engage the audience and make them want to know what happens next. After researching various different openings, I am confident that I can make a very good film opening. It will use a variety of different film elements and conventions to create a meaningful and enjoyable film opening
Reflection:
This blog post definetely took me a lot longer than all the other ones. I found it very difficult to find the right words to use when talking about brainstorming ideas. Identifying key details in the film "Stand by Me" was rather simple but combining that with the knowledge I have then putting that into creating a film opening was very hard. Overall I feel that I have learned a lot about the structure needed when making coming of age dramas and how important it is to follow the correct conventions or else the opening will fall apart. After doing extensive research on coming of age drama films I believe I am capable of using my imagination and creativity to create an emotional, entertaining, and enjoyable opening.
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