“The Awakening”

Final Opening Idea

Do you remember like 2 blogs ago, when I posted about how my opening was going to be like? Well… that was a draft, but now, in this blog, I’ll do the final version of how my opening is going to be like! Which, as you can see, I’m exited for, but also a little bit scared, because, if I can’t develop this idea on a way that works, I may have to change the whole story, and maybe even the genre, which is going to be really difficult to do, but that probably won’t be the case, so let’s get into it!

Idea

“The awakening”

As I said before, my idea is to have a guy that looks older than 25 (probably my dad), in a dark room, tied up in a chair. The opening is going to start with sounds of this guy trying to get out of the chair while the camera shows where he’s at, and details of the room. Then, a close-up of this guy’s feet (tied up to the chair) followed by a tilt up until the shot reaches his eyes is going to show that he’a really sweaty, and he’s going to have bruises and blood in different parts of his body. He’s going to look really confused, and scared. I also want to include some suspense music, and when the music it’s reaching a high point, a guy (villain) appears in front of the guy tied up on the chair, with backlight, so the details from his face are not shown, and he will be recorded him from a low angle, to make him look dangerous, and to add a deeper meaning. 

After that shot; the guy that was tied up in the chair wakes up, sweating again, with heavy breathing. He’s in his bedroom, with his wife sleeping on his side. It’s a pretty house that has pictures and drawings from kids (their children). This guy gets up from bed, and goes to the kitchen, where he calls someone and says “It’s happening again, I’m dreaming about what happened 2 years ago, he’s back”, and after that, the shots are going to follow that guy in his day, while he keeps having flashbacks of that moment. 

Well… as you probably can see, the opening had many changes, and now it’s a whole different story than what it was one week ago. Firstly, the tittle changed (because it didn’t suit the new story), it’s not anymore “The Snitch”, but “The Awakening”. And even though the first part of the opening it’s still the same, the second part changed, and that changed the whole story a lot, now, it has a different meaning, and even different actors than those that I was going to use when I did my draft. 

Inspiration 

I didn’t get inspiration from one specific film, but I did take specific ideas and elements from a wide range of films. When I was thinking what genre could I do, this idea of a guy tied up on a dark room came up to my mind, and I loved it. At first, I was going to show how the guy had gotten into that situation. I was going to show him on the sea, fully clothed, swimming fast from someone that’s chasing him, but then I thought, how am I going to do that?, and i changed my mind, since it would’ve also looked more like a trailer than an actual opening, and when I was discarding ideas, the idea of a guy waking up from a nightmare came up to my mind, and I could’t stop thinking about how can I include that into my opening, and so “The Awakening” idea appeared, and I loved it. 

Sadly, this blog came to an end, but stay tuned for the next one, in which I’m going to talk about the storyboard and explain deeper my opening idea. 

See you on the next one, and have a good one!

:)