The plot for our movie will centre around the dramatic sudden end of a couples marriage, which involves the wife leaving while the husband is at work, with their children. We felt that a drama was best for this because, through research, we saw that dramas can implement romantic tragedies and heightened emotions which are definitely things we want to feed into the core our movie.
For the opening of our movie, we have decided that the husband, who will be played by Leo, will walk through the door of his home and immediately know that something is wrong. The home will be trashed and he will be in shock. The couple are coming off the back of some real marital problems, he calls her name and gets no reply and finds her wedding ring and note on the table. He drops his keys and notices that family pictures are smashed. His stress is revealed through his body language.
If the film were to be produced as a whole film, we would the main body of the film be, the husband finding the wife and kids, now living with their mentally ill mother who is becoming increasingly unstable without her medication, and follow his struggles to get custody of his kids off of his mentally ill and dangerous wife. the ending of the film will conclude with the husband gaining custody of the kids and the wife is sent to get proper treatment for her mental disorders
After feedback from our teacher, we have decided to keep the house intact, instead of having it completely trashed, but still have photo frames and wedding photo be broken and scattered across the floor.
Having the house intact prevents the audience from thinking that the home was burgled, by strangers and stops any confusion related to how the mess was caused. we intend on showing this by introducing the mess with a close up shot of the husbands foot as he accidentally steps on the glass of the broken photo frames and having the torn images of their happy family in the shot under the glass.
this lets the audience know what's happened before he does, so they can start piecing together the story and wait to see his reaction to the news, of which will be distress and anger as he finds the ring on the table.
this introduces the absence of the wife and kids with more of an impact, than if we were to have the home be wrecked.
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