Here are some suggestions for further improving the enigma in your opening sequence: - Leave some of the flashbacks unexplained, showing brief glimpses but not fully revealing the context. This will pique the audience's curiosity. - End the opening sequence on a cliffhanger moment right before a resolution, leaving questions unanswered. For example, fade to black right as she collapses without revealing if she's alive or dead. - Include ambiguous or symbolic elements that have multiple possible interpretations, allowing the audience to speculate on meanings. - Withhold key pieces of backstory on Laura until later, so her actions in the opening are somewhat mysterious. - Employ an unreliable narrator through hallucinations

1. Kaya & Sanel
Research on the drug LSD G
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
What is it?
Invented by Albert Hoffman, LSD, is a powerful hallucinogenic drug, which makes
the user see distorted views of objects, reality and hearing things that aren’t
there. This is known as a ‘trip’ and once you start using it, it’s hard to stop.
Users of LSD may experience some bodily effects, such as:
• Increased blood pressure and heart rate
• Dizziness
• Loss of appetite
• Dry mouth
• Sweating
• Nausea
• Numbness
• Tremors

2. Kaya & Sanel
Research on the drug LSD G
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
LSD users when taking the drug can feel pleasant and relaxed, but that’s only when they are
in a good place and were happy before using it, called a ‘good trip’ however, if you are in a
bad mood, upset, in a place of discomfort, or with people you are uncomfortable with
seeing frightening and confusing things making you feel worse. This is called a ‘bad trip’.
The effects!
• Speeding up or slowing down time and movement
• Distorted sound, colour and objects
• Seeing and hearing things that aren't there
• Heightening your mood
• Making you feel worse
• Anxiety attacks
The risks!
• A bad trip can seriously terrify you
• Flashbacks – re-lived after the original experience (within weeks of taking the drug or
even years!)
• Long term damage to the body
• Heart failure

3. Kaya & Sanel
Research on the drug LSD G
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
This is a video from Talk to Frank about who made LSD, what it does, why people
hallucinate and how the body controls it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCePaxzEds

4. Kaya
Research on the drug LSD G
It can be a crystal – if its touched, you
can become very high as it is absorbed
through the skin
What LSD can
look like
It can be a liquid (when
the crystal is dissolved
in water), however it is
It can be on blotter paper. When not strong
the paper is dipped in liquid acid
which trippy art painted on it
It can be a sugar cube which has a drop
of liquid acid put in it
It can come in microdots, which are
small pills in many colours

5. Kaya & Sanel
Research on the drug LSD G
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
How we will show the effects of LSD in our opening sequence:
• Laura will be very pale to show she's unhealthy and sweaty
• She will have flash backs
• The flash backs will be in slow motion
• Laura will hallucinate colours, sounds and images
• Her hallucination will be in fast motion
• She will have heart failure
• She will be in pain and feeling really depraved
• Have confusing signs everywhere around where she's walking

6. Population and popularity of the drug.

7. Kaya & Sanel
Idea Development H
Previously our idea for our whole film was a woman who was possessed was taking hostage
innocent victims and exorcising them for her cult.
What Went Well?
• Creative
• Interesting
• Scary
Even Better If?
• Less complicated
• Chose to focus on either hostage or possession – not both
• Too fully understand and research possession
Previously our opening sequence was showing a tape filmed by the possessed woman on
the news talking about her cult and exorcising a victim she has held hostage.
What Went Well?
• Good idea
• Creative layout
Even Better If?
• Change the news idea
• Change location to somewhere more flexible

8. Kaya & Sanel
Idea Development H
We are improving our opening sequence from our last one completely changing our idea to a
new one. We changed our genre to drama which is based on drugs, quite a realistic things to
certain teenagers. We fully researched and revised drugs so we improve our understanding
and knowledge making sure we make an effective opening sequence and therefore to…
• Relate to our audience so they can see our opening sequence as real life
• Show an educational message of how drugs are bad for you
• Making it more interesting for our target audience to what they prefer
• Make it less complicated but still as captivating
• More understandable, as our target audience are young teenagers/adults
How are we contributing?
Kaya and Sanel are contributing by meeting up on the Holidays to fully research
and carefully think thought out new idea making sure everything links and can
educate our target audience. We explored different effects of LSD in depth to
make it as realistic as possible to relate to real peoples lives

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Whole Film H
(Laura’s life from the beginning)
• Her friends introduce her to the drugs, she likes it and carries on
taking it
• Laura takes it daily gets addicted, party’s, stops going school –
messes her life up
• She steals, does prostitution to try and get money for LSD
• Her and her friends get into a big fright over money for the drug
and she becomes lonely and depressed
• She keeps self harming, taking he drug and ends up getting so
intoxicated she doesn't know what she's doing and just goes to the
forest while hallucinating
• He has heart failure and dies alone

10. Kaya & Sanel
Opening Sequence H
• We follow Laura walking out of her home (on the way to the forest)
and cut from different shots of her journey
• Throughout the journey we see short flash backs
• We then show CCTV of her walking into the park/forest gates
• Point of view of what she can see and hear (hallucinating) which
cuts from real life and her point of view
• Laura stops quickly holds her chest and falls to the ground
breathing slowly
• Front her point of view we see characters dance together

11. Kaya & Sanel
Idea Development H
How the idea was improved from Draft 1 to
Draft 2
• We took out mental illness schizophrenia being the reason she thought she was
possessed, and changed the woman to actually being possessed by demons who
wanted to let the world know about her cult scaring the world so the demons can
possess them too from watching the video
• Doing deeper research of the reasons of possession being that demons can be released
into the real world and why the certain people get possessed because they’re
venerable.
• We also changed the location to somewhere more flexible as the other one location,
we wouldn’t have been able to move things around, the light thing was poor and the
room was too small. Therefore changing to one of our group members basement as it
is spacious and reliable.

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21. Kaya K
Laura leaves Starts with a full body Willesden Laura • Side bag Blue Credits will be
Her home and shot then a graphic • Short brown wig jacket, rippe shown during
starts her match to full body d this scene
journey to the shot ending in a close tights, black
forest up shot skirt, white
Flashback of Over the shoulder shot of Willesden top, dirty
Black Non-Diegetic sad
Laura
Laura first her friend. Full body shot • Sugar cube shoes rippe
jacket, slow music is
which zooms into a Friend
trying LSD • Food colouring d played. Slow
extreme close up shot,
after fast zoom out back
• Short brown wig tights, black motion. Blur.
Then fast motion
into the full body shot skirt, grey
Laura is still The camera will track Willesden top, dirty
Black
Laura
walking the her walking around • Side bag boots rippe
jacket,
journey to the the curb in a full body • Short brown wig d
forest shot tights, black
skirt, white
Flashback of Close up shot of top, dirty
Greyish Non-Diegetic sad
Harlesden Laura
Laura at a Laura’s face to • Beer bottle boots
jacket, white slow music is
Friends
party while on capture the facial • Short brown wig top, black played. Slow
LSD expression skirt motion. Blur.
Laura is still on Establishing shot of her Blue jacket, ripped
walking down the road
Golders Green Laura • Side bag
her journey to tights, black skirt,
the forest
with graphic match • Short brown wig white top, dirty
showing her in different
places on the road shoes
Willesden Laura Non-Diegetic sad
Flashback of Over the shoulder shot of • Side bag Black
jacket, ripped slow music is
Laura and her Laura getting pushed over Friend • Short brown wig
be a friend then a mid shot tights, black played. Slow
friend having a skirt, grey motion. Blur.
of her on the ground
fight top, dirty boots
Laura is Establishing shot of Laura Blue jacket, ripped
Golders Green • Side bag
entering the Laura walking into the tights, black skirt,
• Short brown wig white top, dirty
park park gates
shoes
CCTV point of Blue jacket, ripped Black and
Overhead shot of Laura Golders Green Laura • Side bag
view of Laura walking into the forest tights, black skirt, white visual
with time in white at the • Short brown wig white top, dirty effect
walking into
bottom of the screen shoes
the park gates

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Laura walks Golders Green Laura • Side bag Blue jacket,
Full body shot
through the • Short brown wig ripped tights,
park looking black skirt,
confused white top,
dirty shoes
Flashback of Laura ripped Non-Diegetic sad
Full body shot Willesden • Razor
Laura cutting tights, black slow music is
herself in her skirt, grey played. Slow
bath top,
motion. Blur.
Laura looks Mid shot while doing Golders Green Blue
Laura • Side bag
from right to a reverse dolly zoom jacket, rippe
left frightened • Short brown wig d
tights, black
skirt, white
P.O.V of the Long shot which then top, dirty
Clown – Weird hypnotic
Golders Green Clown
clown and the becomes a close up • Orange afro wig shoes .big
jumpsuit music playing. Fast
Doll Dolly
doll scaring shot of both • Pink short wig shoes. motion. Multi-
Doll – coloured visual
Laura characters faces dress, ripped effect
Laura stands tights
Full body shot of her Golders Green Laura
Blue
there confused funning from • Side bag jacket, ripped
then starts to different locations of • Short brown wig tights, black
run into the skirt, white
the forest top, dirty shoes
forest
Clown – Weird hypnotic
P.O.V of the Full body shot then Golders Green Clown • Orange afro wig jumpsuit .big music playing. Fast
clown and the later a long shot of motion. Multi-
Doll Dolly • Pink short wig shoes.
doll trying to the characters in the Doll – coloured visual
distance dress, ripped effect
confuse Laura
tightsjacket,
Blue
Laura stops and Mid shot then a close Golders Green Laura • Side bag ripped tights,
holds her chest up shot of her face on • Short brown wig black skirt,
then falling to the ground white top, dirty
the ground shoes
Clown – Weird hypnotic
P.O.V of the Full body shot from a low Golders Green Clown • Orange afro wig jumpsuit .big music playing. Fast
clown and doll angle, with the characters shoes. motion. Multi-
Doll Dolly • Pink short wig
dancing above then jumping down to a Doll – coloured visual
Laura close up shot dress, ripped effect
tights

23. Kaya & Sanel
Enigma – How did they do it? L
‘Stand by me’ - 1986 Opening Sequence
Focus on newspaper article about death
The audience will want to know why this has
been pointed out and why he is looking at this
particular article for so long.
Focus on two boys on bike, then
starts to reminisce
We see the man focus on these two
boys on the bike then start to think
which makes the audience wonder
what connection he has with them He starts telling his story which connects to the what
the newspaper article and boys on the bikes
Lastly his voice over starts talking about his life as a
young boy and seeing a dead human, which shows the
audience it connects to the article and the two boys
on the bike. This make the audience want to watch
more and find out what happened when he saw the
body and the connection to what he’s thinking about

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Enigma - How did they do it? L
‘Bend it like Beckham’ - 2002 Opening Sequence
Woman play for Man Utd
The audience will get sucked
into the game they played in the
beginning of the opening
sequence and then when they
see the girl playing with them
they wonder why she's playing
Mum disapproves of her playing for Man Utd and watch more.
The audience will wonder why she's
such a good football player, but then
when you see her mum shouting and
saying ‘she needs to go back home’
the audience will realise it’s a day
dream and see that there is conflict in
her family about her dream
Shows contrast with her fantasy and real life
The audience realise she doesn't follow the
conventions of a Indian girl and want to watch
more about the differences of what her mother
wants and what she wants.

25. Kaya & Sanel
Enigma L
How are we creating enigma in our opening sequence?
• By not letting the audience know why she is walking to the forest as she falls to the
ground hopelessly without letting the audience know what she wanted to do there in
the first place and further what she would have seen in her hallucinations.
• By showing her dramatically fall to the group as a climax to the end of the opening
sequence without giving away why, what it was and if she was okay afterwards.
• The audience will want to know why she is this way, how she’s tired, dirty, bloody and
what happened wrong in her life which the flashbacks will give short clues of this.
• Showing just seconds of the flashbacks they will want to see more of what she did and
why she did them and its done in slow motion which is a side effect of LSD so the
audience can know she on drugs doing these things (in the flashbacks) which because
of the hallucinations in the opening sequence will want to see more of it in her other
‘trips’.

26. Kaya & Sanel
Enigma L
How we have improved from draft 1?
• We draw the audience into our opening sequence more this time so the
audience can feel sorry for this venerable character rather than just being
told a story
• Rather than just showing someone kidnapped like in draft one, we showed
the girls journey drawing the audiences attention in slowly building tension
• In draft 1 there was no climax, the opening sequence was just basically
informing and telling a story however now, we build up tension up to a climax
creating enigma and dropping making the audience feel uncomfortable and
wanting to watch more