My film opening will be of the mockumentary variety. It will revolve around an international family holiday.
I'm thinking of borrowing a few ideas from The Office and also The Hangover. The main ideas that I want to explore are the straining of family dynamics when we must spend an elongated amount of time together. Along with the added stress levels of planning such a trip, and everything coming together at the end... or falling apart at the last minute.
I wish to evoke emotions in the audience towards each of the characters. I want to portray a couple as the ones that are causing all of the drama and a couple that are simply trying to enjoy the holiday but are being cut down by the dramatic characters. The audience should have positive/negative connotations to each character accordingly. This should help the humour come out through their interactions and the word choices that each person uses.
I would like the audience to come out of it seeing that the opening was an exaggerated reality. There is always stress in travel however you get over it rather quickly. But with characters that hold onto the negative and don't let the stress float past them can bring down everyone around them.
So, basically, the film will start with an Australian establishing shot going into another shot with my whanau sitting in our hotel room looking rather disgusted with the whole ordeal. There will be some kind of incident here and then there will be a backwards montage into a title screen possibly with the instrumental ending of Prince's 'When Doves Cry' as I have imagined it being that way in my head. But realistically it would not fit in very well. Then there will be a scene with the morning we are to leave to Australia from New Zealand. This should be relatively brief.
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