The document discusses the issue of child abuse, emphasizing its prevalence and the long-lasting emotional effects on victims. It outlines a film opening that aims to depict the struggles of a teenager aged 13-14 living with an alcoholic mother in an inner-city setting, aiming to raise awareness among viewers aged 15 and older. The document details the technical aspects of filming, including shot types, location challenges, and character development relevant to the drama genre.

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.