Pre-Production- Concept

1. The name of my film opening is going to be faded memory as it is about a girl who can't piece together her past or the memories of her important experiences. It is going to be an opening that begins with a woman writing the story ( almost as if it were she who were the girl..), then it will be in the story, with the girl. The genre is going to be a fantasy.

2. I want to explore the idea that the film is a comment on how fragments of the past influence the present person and can have a big influence in one's life. This would be further explored in the rest of the film.

3. I wish to evoke emotions of concern for the girl, wonder for the park/ fantasy world, and a wish to know more about the background behind her necklace, rose and the book which holds the memories.

4. I wish to have the impact of getting people to think about their past, or their memories that are both positive and negative and to reflect on this when seeing that the girl is frustrated that she cannot read the book, or remember what the pages contain.

5. I am inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works and so want to mix Dark Romanticism into the piece. The beginning will show the change from the woman writing the story to the girl being in the fantasy world.The location/setting will change at this stage to show the transition.As the film would progress, the dark elements would emerge more strongly.

 There are two main characters: the woman and the girl. The woman is in the present, writing the story. The girl is inside the story. The link between the two are props such as the book, necklace and rose, which are all vital to the story- the memories that are associated with the items and the confusion when the girl can't remember who they were from or for what purpose.Some things in the fantasy world are not what she expects. As the woman writes more of the book, and is consumed by the task, bizarre things would happen in the fantasy world in the rest of the film. The opening is to introduce the situation, location and character.

The girl is inquisitive, curious, at times frightened and confused and unable to piece together the memories from her past. The woman is knowledgeable, is writing the memories in the story and is recalling her life- she remembers her past as she writes the story and it is as if she was the girl, but can now see what happened and why and wants to tell her story- which would also be explored in the rest of the film.

The opening starts with a medium shot of a open book, with a person's hand writing a line of the story. The viewer can only see the book, the hand and the pen. Fades into the park- the story.To show this transition from the present, the colour saturation will be different. The idea of the story is a young woman in a strange park, she finds the notebook that the story is being written in; but the pages are empty and she is frustrated by the fact that there are no memories there.She begins to think that there is someone following her but as the story progresses we realize that she is hallucinating and there is no one there.

The rest of the film would elaborate on the memories in the book, to do with the necklace and the rose.These memories inside the story would be colourful and bright to show that these are in the past. It would then transition back to the woman that was writing the story.The objects would thrust it back into the present; the pages flip over- full of the story. It cuts to a extreme close up over the page (the perspective of the woman) A quote is written at the end, then the book is shut.We see the silhouette of the woman.