Outline of Opening

In this blog I will outline what exactly will happen in the opening of our film, IMOGEN. We have five main scenes/clips which we will use and collaborate to create the opening as a whole. These five areas include - 

1. Cinematics of the park
2. Rag doll being played with in the park
3. The footsteps of an adult
4. Pushchair being pushed
5. The revelation of the adult

CINEMATICS OF THE PARK

This scene will be roughly 30-40 seconds long, and we will be filming it from a low point of view to give the impression that the park is being observed from a child's perspective. 

Shots we will use here -

• Pan of the park
• long shot of the park
• close up of any signs in the park (i.e. the park's name, "no dogs" etc etc)
• focus pull of swings (background blurry)
• close up of the empty roundabout spinning
• cinematics of empty pushchair
• low angle of the pushchair (being looked up at from child's perspective)

RAG DOLL BEING PLAYED WITH IN THE PARK

We intend on this scene being anything from 40-60 seconds, and this is also where the credits will begin to take place. We are going to use a discrete title sequence, and the following images will play in the background:

• Rag doll being pushed down the slide (over-the-shoulder shot of the rag doll)
• Camera at the bottom of the slide - rag doll hits camera on its way down
• Rag doll being pushed on the swings (camera just behind swing from a low angle, as if from a child's perspective)
• Camera on one end of the see-saw; rag doll on the other seat.

THE FOOTSTEPS OF AN ADULT

This will be a rather short clip, and it will show a man walking towards the pushchair. It will last 2-5 seconds, and the reason for it being shot is to lead the audience into believing that the father of the "child" playing is going to pick her up and take her home. (Whereas it was actually him playing all along).

PUSHCHAIR BEING PUSHED

Again, this clip will be short (roughly only 2-5 seconds long) and it will show the character leaving the park from a child's perspective. This will be done by shooting the park getting smaller and smaller in the distance.

THE REVELATION OF THE ADULT

This is the most crucial clip of the whole opening as it will reveal that the man was the one playing in the park all along. We will do this by shooting at a crossing (the man on one side; the camera on the other). The audience will be able to see the man with a pushchair, and will expect it to be carrying a little girl. A bus will pass, revealing the fact that in the pushchair is the rag doll and not a child. We are anticipating this clip to be roughly 10 seconds long, making the whole opening (if our outline is accurate) approximately 1 minute 50 seconds long.