The document discusses potential opening sequences for a drama film about obsession. It proposes four ideas: 1) A girl obsessed with being thin who kills herself. 2) A girl obsessed with her friend who copies her. 3) A young girl trapped at home by abusive parents who runs away. 4) A girl in an abusive relationship with a possessive boyfriend who drags her and takes her makeup off. It also provides information about abuse, its types (physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, neglect), and definitions.
1. Final Opening
Sequence
Ina Francia Bayson
Carolle Mafuta-Nkalu
Ramina Arlauskaite
2. Genre: Drama
Theme: Obsession
A Drama film is most likely used for touching
audience’s feelings. It often revolve in films
about family, love, violence, biography etc.
Distributing Companies that
In 1980-1990s started to use supports drama films
drama films with a lot of
emotional themes.
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3. Ideas for Opening
Sequence
• Idea 1
o The girl is obsessed on being thin. She killed herself and a flashback shows
of her childhood and children calling her names, she locks herself looking
at her diary and magazines, feels sick when seeing food, family problems.
• Idea 2
o A girl is obsessed with her friend and always copies her on everything she
do e.g. cut her hair. Girl found out that her friend is obsessed with her and
get scared.
• Idea 3
o A young girl, she’s trapped in the house and her parents are not allowing
her to go anywhere. She tries to talks to her parents to gain freedom. Her
dad abuses her, showing her that she’s too young to go off on her own.
She decided to runaway, called up her friend, goes to her place.
• Idea 4
o Girl live with here boyfriend, then he started to be nice but after a while
he started to be aggressive and possessive, when she wears make-up to
look nice for him he just change and abuse her. Dragging her to the
corridor and taking her make-up off.
4. What is abuse?
• Abuse can be
physical, sexual, emotional, verbal,
or a combination of any or all of
these.
• A type of behaviour towards a
person that causes them harm.
• Abuse can also lead to death.
• There are different types of abuse:
• Physical
• Mental/Emotional
• Sexual
• Neglect
5. Different kinds of Abuse
• Physical abuse
o Most easily recognized form of abuse.
o It can be any kind of
hitting, shaking, burning, pinching, biting, choking, throwing,
beating, and other actions that cause physical injury, leave
marks, or cause pain.
• Sexual abuse
o any type of sexual contact between an adult and anyone
younger than 18.
o between a significantly older child and a younger child
o if one person overpowers another, regardless of age.
o If a family member sexually abuses another family
member, this is called incest.
• Emotional abuse
o Emotional abuse can hurt and cause damage just as
physical abuse does.
• Neglect
o Neglect occurs when a child or teen doesn't have adequate
food, housing, clothes, medical care, or supervision.
6. Chosen Opening
Sequence
• Girl and boy been together for 3 years, and girl
decided to live with her boyfriend.
• At start he is nice, but started to become possessive
about her.
• Do not let her put make up and look nice.
• Abuse her when she don’t obey him
7. Idea for whole film
• After getting abused for wearing a makeup the girl
is locked into the bedroom.
• He told her to do food shopping for them.
• She left food in front of the house and runs
away, before going inside the bus her boyfriend
comes and dragged her back home.
• Abused her for trying to runaway.
• She tries to runaway by making him drink sleeping
pills, runs away, and had a new life.
