Initial planning and ideas

I have brainstormed a few ideas about my own opening sequence, and I created a mindmap (above) with a few of the ideas for the mise-en-scene in particular costume, props and setting. I also made a moodboard to put the ideas into image format (in a separate blog post) I took main inspiration from the BBC television show Thirteen, where a young woman is taken and missing for 13 years and finally escapes.



I plan on writing a full synopsis or even a script for the whole film, but the opening sequence would be similar to the opening scene of Thirteen in that the main character will be running away from where she has been held. Obviously this is a TV scene so there are no credits, so I would have these added in. I plan on writing additional blog posts about the soundtrack and other elements as my planning progresses. At the moment, I have a vague idea for narrative, actors and locations, but I'm still deciding on a soundtrack and a shot-by-shot storyboard for the opening scene.