In our film opening we represented teenagers, but we also tried to show mental health, as our character Callie suffers from depression.
From our main task we had chosen to base our film on a news article about a man who had died preventing a suicide attempt. We changed this story so that our character Callie is mourning the death of her friend who died preventing a suicide attempt. This feels have caused Callie to become 'shut off' from everyone so she doesn't talk, this is why in our opening she does not speak at all. She also suffers from depression, we have tried to be sensitive when representing this topic, many teenagers/young adults have had experiences with depression, which can cause them to be anti-social. However many teenagers can already be unsociable, this is another reason why Callie is on her laptop and doesn't speak during the opening.
In one of our shots Callie has her head in her hands, this represents how teenagers can be troubled, caused by different things such as stress. But this also represents mental health as her hands are hiding her pained face, the position she is in can represent how people who are depressed feel.
Through the pace of the film we have tried to represent depression, our film opening is very slow paced, symbolic of how she does not want to interact with anyone or do anything because of her depression. We also wanted to represent mental health through miss-en-scene, Callie is wearing dark clothing, she is in a dark small room and the film is in low key lighting.
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