The document discusses the plot of a drama film opening about child abuse. The plot involves a teenage boy of color living with his alcoholic white/black mother in an urban council estate, without a father figure present. The opening scene shows the mother intoxicated on the couch surrounded by empty bottles as the boy prepares for school. Close-ups and music convey the boy's emotional response to his mother's yelling and glass breaking from the night before. The film then follows the boy's journey to school. The plot aims to subvert stereotypes and emphasize the child's struggle with the transition from childhood to adolescence without parental support.

2. Child abuse is a major concern everywhere. Studies show that each year over one
million children are abused or neglected by their parents. The children who live
through years of assault can have emotional scars that can last for years. We all pay
the price of their suffering.
The target audience is aimed at the age category 15+ because the viewers would be
people that are interested in child abuse. We have chosen the target audience of 15+
as children at this age are more vulnerable to child abuse. The audience would be
interested in how these unfortunate children get affected by it and how they end up
becoming by going through this difficult phase.
The target audience could also be parents themselves who feel sympathy for the
children and teenagers who suffer from child abuse. They may want to know the
actions of child abuse so that they don’t do it themselves and would want to be aware
of the steps towards child abuse. Therefore being more aware of it and possessing
sufficient knowledge, they can ensure children are being protected and child abuse in
being prevented.

3. The camera work and handling of all the different types of angles would be easy to perform
as the locations in our film opening possess no restrictions. We would include significant
shots such as extreme close up, long shot, mid shot, establishing shot etc..
The editing part would not be as difficult as we plan to film the opening all in one day and
edit it the next few days. Instead of filming on various days, we will ensure we finish and get
all our footage done in one day. This is vital as we can ensure no one changes their
appearance, hairstyle or clothes, meaning there’d be no movie mistakes.
The mise en scene would be available as our genre is drama; places such as parks,
suburban areas, flats and construction sites. The mise en scene will suit our drama film
opening as it is relevant with child abuse, we can show the child being brought up in a rough
area.
Getting the cast for our film opening would be difficult as a child will be hard to find during
school hours. Also finding a mother looking like an alcoholic and wanting to participate.
Filming in a flat may also be difficult to use in our film opening as we would need to find
people that would allow us access.

4. Many dramas involve telling the audience a story; relating and focusing
on a real life situation. They get the audience engaged quickly and
ensure they feel very emotional. The main feature of drama is to bring
out a dramatic story line as it is based on truth. This is the reason for
why the audience interacts emotionally with it.
Drama includes realistic characters and therefore our film opening will
be easy to produce. Finding the characters suited for our film opening
will be easy to obtain. The main characters of the film often go through
a transition where they change dramatically throughout the film.

5. What is involved in the genre - Drama:
- Real life situation with real life characters and settings
- Portraying the characters journey and ensuring the audience feels emotional
- Intense social interaction
- Conflicts which involve hardship, struggle and pain
- The audience can relate to the characters
- Happy endings often happen
- Drama can be combined with others such as comedy, thriller and crime
- Mise en scene - high and low angle shots which portrays strength and weaknesses
- Dull lighting
- Many props are included such as gun, alcohol, drugs and money
- Costumes of the characters are easy to get
- Dramatic music background that creates feeling
- Many emotional scenes

6. The plot of our chosen genre (drama) is based around the theme of child abuse. Our main characters
will be of white/black ethnicity as this will feed into the stereotype of those ethnicities being involved in
alcoholism compared to those of other religious backgrounds.
The mother will be an alcoholic which will subvert expectations of mothers being loving and caring to
their child. Our main character will be a teenager aged between13-14 years old. We have chosen this
age group because it emphasises the struggle for the transition between childhood and adolescence.
This character will be a boy as the father in this plot will be absent to show that there is no male figure
for him to look up to.
The plot will start of inner city (London), inside an urban council estate. After an establishing shot of
the setting, we will pan into the sitting room where the mother will be seen slouching on the sofa with
empty alcohol bottles around her. After this, there will be a parallel edit of both characters (The mother
and child) of their morning routine. Mother still intoxicated and going for another bottle and the child
waking up, getting ready for school. There will be non-diegetic music overpowering the shouts coming
from the drunken mother. We will have a close up of the child’s facial expression to show the
audience his emotion of what had happened the night before, using diegetic sounds of the mother
yelling and glass breaking. Following this we will have jump cuts of the child in the park with his
school uniform on. Then we will follow his journey to school.