Conventions

Setting:
The setting of our film's opening will be a park. That actual shooting location will be Admiral's Park however this does not specifically carry over into the film. Our reasons for filming there is that, because we will be filming during school hours, the park should be devoid of most people and we can easily get the shots we want without having people interfere or getting in the way. The park is not a very busy looking place in terms of scenery and this suits our film very well as it centers around a normal person in a normal world with a very abnormal problem. The simpleness of the scenery helps to emphasize the unusual elements and make them stand out more.

Themes:
We have a general dark theme to our film. Because the main character has a mental illness, there has to be some degree of seriousness to it as this sort of subject matter is rarely tackled lightly. However, while this is a serious element to our film, hence the darkness, we also have comedic elements to our film that are in stark contrast to the darkness of the rest of the film. This shows the parallel themes in name and actually in terms of the themes throughout the film.

Icons:
Icons are used twice in the opening of our film to highlight certain plot points and to show further contrast between the two main characters. The medicine bottle is used to show the audience that the character does in fact have a mental illness, something that is never otherwise directly stated. The other iconography is the use of the two coke cans, one being normal and one being diet. By having the two characters drink the opposite kinds, people can see even more how different the two characters are. By using coke cans, something people easily recognize from day to day life, the audience's attention is drawn directly to these icons.

Narrative:
The Opening's narrative serve the purpose of introducing the fact that the main character has a mental illness, and that his split personality disorder has actually manifested as a separate character that the audience can see. By having an exchange of dialogue, or more of a one sided conversation, the relationship between the two parallel personalities is revealed and this serves to foreshadow how the film will progress with one being more antagonistic than the other.