Initial Ideas.

After I discovered what what my brief was ( to create the opening of a feature film in any genre to last 2 minutes), I had a quick brain storm in order to think of ideas. 

I thought that it might be easier to try and create my story from something that had happened in my life. I didnt want to create a typical teenage film, so I had to really think about how I could incorporate something that wouldn't come across soppy or insignificant. 

After a long think, i recalled an event that happened that i could dramatise and make more interesting. 

I recently found my mothers diary from when she was the same age as me, and as her and I don't have a particularly close relationship with my mother, I was intrigued to find out that in fact we lead extremely similar lives at that age. 

Although just from that I realised it wasn't a very interesting story, I quickly began to think of ways that i could develop it. 

I knew immediately that this was the story i wanted to create the opening two minutes for. It would be something that i could get extremely involved in, because really it was a story about me. I could use my own emotions and filter them into making a film that i truly cared about.