Opening scene 'After Effects' - Settings/Locations

Settings/Locations

There will be 3 different settings in our opening scene: 

• Inside college
• Thaomy's house
• A park 

We have decided to use the college as one of the settings as the main character is a teenage freshman who's day to day life involves attending college. The main locations inside the college that we would use is the corridor and a classroom. The corridor will be the first college location of the clip, it is where the freshman over hears a conversation that he shouldn't had which leads to many problems and dramas. In result of ears dropping, he arrives late to his first lesson of the day therefore gets a detention, a classroom would be used to represent this.

As the character is a freshman, he will still be living at home with his parents. The main room we are going to use in Thaomy's house is her brothers room, as the freshman will be sleeping to showcase he is having a dream. There would be several shots of the surroundings and belongs around the room to portray the type of character he is to the viewers. The camera will focus on his facial expressions; once his eyes close the scene change into his dream. There would be a constant switch between each dream and reality to remind the audience he is dreaming, between each scene the freshman will gradually panic more and more, moving around quicker and quicker, heart beat getting faster and faster to symbolize that his dream is bad portraying his future will be terrible if he doesn't change. The opening will finish with the freshman suddenly waking up with a loud gasp covered with sweat, being a reminder and representing the freshman saw a horrid dream of his future.

We will use the park as the location where the freshman's friend calls him and asks for a favor. We decided to use this setting as it is a park that many people don't go, therefore is the perfect location for the friend to give the drugs to the freshman. The freshman would arrive early and will sit on the seats (left picture) wondering whats going on, after his friend arrives the walk around the park to the pathway (right picture). As his friend is in trouble and needs someone to keep the drugs, the freshman couldn't say no and agreed to keep it, knowing something bad will come out of it.