Plot outline

After finally deciding that the style for my opening title sequence would be based around Indie 'teen' comedy, I have begun to plan the outline for my plot. I want to take a lot of inspiration for my sequence from the 'Juno' and 'Napoleon Dynamite' sequences, focusing on one solo character and using realistic and easily available props. I really want to create an upbeat, bouncy mood from this sequence and to focus on the difficulties of teenage life, which can be turned into comedy. My aim in the opening sequence is to take the viewer back to their teen years that are supposedly the 'best years of your life' and focus strongly on stereotypes of young people to try to bring that element of comedy into my sequence.

I'm going to create a youthful tone in my opening by setting the first scene inside the bedroom of my main character (which I have not yet decided the gender of). In this scene I aim to use mise en scene to connote the age, gender and status of the character to the audience, for example, if the character was a girl, hair straighteners and make up may be included in some of the shots as images that are iconographic of a teenage girl. The character will be getting ready to go out to a party so this scene will show them preparing and getting ready. I would like to use this scene to show a wide range of my editing skills. I aim to use jump cuts to cut from close ups of props and perhaps try to create pieces of edits that invoke a party like atmosphere as the character listens to music. Also featuring as a prop in the room will be a bottle of alcohol, this will show the alternative representation of teens, showing them to be dependent on alcohol before they can legally drink. To create the effect of being 'tipsy' I will use some interesting edits to portray this to the audience. The second part of the title sequence will be the journey to and the arrival at the party. This is where I will use elements from the 'Juno' title sequence and 'The perks of being a wallflower' (POBAW) title sequence. The range of shots that are used throughout 'Juno' and the effective use of tracking shots used in 'POBAW' will be incorporated here and track the journey of the character, giving them mystery and meaning. The sequence will end with a medium close up, moving to a close up, of the main character as they mistakenly arrive at the wrong house for the party they are supposedly attending.