This document provides ideas for opening scenes in a romantic tragedy film genre. Some examples include: 1) A girl cycling gets distracted by a guy on the beach and bumps into another man, introducing the potential love interests. 2) A girl working in a café keeps looking at a boy and gets distracted, dropping glasses and cutting herself, leading the boy to help her, introducing the two lovers. 3) A nurse in a hospital cares for an anonymous injured man, focusing on their connection from his point of view. 4) A couple gets intimate at a party but it's revealed the next day that the man is the woman's new teacher, introducing a forbidden relationship. 5)

1. Film GenresOpening Ideas
Ideas for a Romantic Tragedy

2. A girl is cycling along the path at the
beach with people walking around her.
She has headphones on and spots a guy
topless on the sand. She’s distracted and
bumps into another guy. Her
headphones fall out and the music stops
to allow dialogue between the 2. This
introduces the girl, the good guy on the
sand and the dark mysterious guy.

3. A girl is working in a café and serving
people with the music of the café
playing. The girl keeps peering up to look
at a boy sat at one of the tables and the
music is broken when she becomes too
distracted and drops some glasses which
smash and cut her. The boy suddenly
gets up to help her with her cut. This
introduces the 2 lovers.

4. A woman is a nurse in a hospital and the
camera follows her walking around the
different rooms. There is an anonymous
man in an emergency and the shots slow
down into a blur of the mans opinion.
The film starts with the beeping of the
heart monitor and the picture fades in as
the mans point of view looking up at this
young nurse who will be caring for him.

5. The camera is focussed on a girl at a
house party, she gets with a man and
they go into an upstairs bedroom. The
music subtly fades from party to
romantic then ends as the picture fades
to black then into the first scene with
the girl going to school and being
introduced to her new teacher- the man
from the previous night.

6. A very pale girl is floating across a very
tranquil lake. The music is very soft and
the titles appear over the still water. The
camera shows different shots of zooming
between images of the girls body. The
camera cuts to a funeral where
everybody is crying as they leave. A
mysterious man lurks in the background
then places a rose at the grave.

7. A couple are out camping in the forest,
it’s a very romantic scene with lights and
soft music. The couple are cuddling and
the man kisses the woman on the head
but the way they are sat means he cant
see that the woman is crying. The screen
fades to black and then the scene opens
to the woman lying unconscious in a
hospital bed with the man by her side.

8. The picture opens to a war scene. The
men are under attack until a bomb goes
off and one of the men take shelter in
the hole. He is dirty, bloody and in pain,
as he’s crying he takes a picture out of
his pocket with the image of a young
woman on it. The music and picture
fades out then goes into a scene of the
girl and man happy together in a field.

9. A girl is walking along the beach and
sees a message in the bottle, the
message is a suicide note from a man
and it is read out over the sound track.
While it is being read, images of the man
writing it are shown and shots of him at
the top of a cliff with the bottle. The
camera switches back to the girl on the
beach for the last sentence to be read.