1. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Drama Challenge Description Opening Sequence
Use – Teenage girl falling Purpose – To show the
Climax to the ground recklessly harm of drugs and what it
with the audience not can do to your health and
knowing what will your mind
happen to her next with Description – The girl will
her health and what she’s stop, hold her chest and
hallucinating fall to the ground in slow
motion to show the She falls to the ground from
seriousness. heart failure while still
hallucinating
Use – The girl will hold Purpose – To make the
Realisation her chest realising audience feel sympathy
something's wrong for her and realise that
this is a serious situation
Description – The girl will
(in slow motion) hold her
chest and fall to the
ground
D.b She realises she’s seriously ill
Kaya, Sanel & Gia

2. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Drama Challenge Description Opening Sequence
Emotions
She is
Happiness Use – Her life is at Purpose – To show a typical
teenage girl heavily
‘equilibrium’ she's Description – The girl has just partying,
partying just like a taken LSD and is in a good state having fun
normal teenager would. feeling really good
Excitement Develop – A normal Purpose – To show where the
problem started Its her first
teenage excited about Description – The girls friends time using
her time taking the drug, introduce her to the drug and she
the drug
however its showing is excited to try it for the first time
something illegal in a
positive light. Purpose – To show that friends can
Loneliness Use – Her and her friends get you in bad situation and then She fights
go through conflict and aren't there for you when it all with her
goes wrong
the main girl has no more Description – She argues with her
friend
friends. friends and they get into a fight
over money (for the drugs)
Depression Develop – A young girl
Purpose – To show how drugs can
hurting her self to an mess you up and ruin your life and She self
extent of it being quite mind harms in
gory and startling the Description – The girl is in the the bath
D.b audience
bathtub cutting herself very deep
into her arm with blood pouring
tub
everywhere
Kaya, Sanel

3. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Drama Challenge Description Opening Sequence
Characters Develop – As she's a Purpose – To show the
teenage girl who takes audience the effects and
you can drugs which many girls risks of taking LSD and the
relate to can relate to but were mind games it causes
developing it by showing
what she's seeing and Description – You see and
thinking as well. hear what she's
hallucinating seeing how
frightening it is
Point of view colours and
characters she’s seeing
Kaya, Sanel D.b

4. Kaya
Inspirational Scenes E
Alice in Wonderland – 1951/2010
There is a theory that Alice in Wonderland is a film about a girl on drugs, which the colours
and characters hugely inspired me in the hallucinating aspect of our opening sequence.
A character that’s very scary Confusion for the Characters moving very
and creepy character fast
During a bad trip as well as being
During a bad trip you see things frightened you also become very When you are hallucinating on
that are frightening so this confused so in the scene where LSD you can see things in slow or
Cheshire cat from Alice in Alice is confronted with many fast motion and the scene at the
wonderland (2010) inspired me signs of where to go they all point dinner party with Mad hatter
to crate a character with similar in every direction, directing her inspired me to speed up my
features that will frighten Laura the same thing, which inspired characters in Laura’s hallucination
when hallucinating. me to confuse my character in a to make it seem more bizarre and
similar way of using sings dizzy

5. Kaya
Inspirational Scenes E
The last song - 2010
The song played by piano in the last scene – emotions and
focus
The song played on the piano in The last song created a lot of emotion and focus
towards the girl on the piano, which inspired us to use during our flashbacks. The
pace and sound of the piano creates a lot of sympathy and understanding of the
character. We want to use this so the audience will understand Laura’s struggle.

6. Sanel
Inspirational Scenes Romeo and Juliet-1996
Romeo and Juliet both having a good time. E
Romeo and Juliet is inspiring to us because there structure starts of with new
equilibrium by showing how happy they are and then ends up getting married but it
ends with a disequilibrium as they both kill themselves to send out a message to there
parents which is inspiring to our opening sequence because we want to send out a
message to our target audience knowing that she was happy at the start but then dies
at the end to show are target audience how LSD is not good.

7. Sanel
Inspirational Scenes
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-1974 E
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inspiring to us that the slow motion was
effective as it focuses on the details slowly showing us that something that
had happen was important. So when we do are slow motion of Laura falling
to ground you can see how the slow motion emphasise the fall.

8. E
Inspirational films
Altered states This inspired my group
because we also will be
using hallucination to show
the characters mental state.
colourful hallucination

9. Inspirational Films E
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• We were inspired by the • We were inspired by these close
point of view shot shown in up shots of Shannon and Joanne
the film. shown in the film.
• The point of view shot allows the • It clearly conveys a lot of
audience to share the view of the the characters’ emotion to
character. We are going to include the audience. We are going
point of view shots in our opening to include close up shots in
sequence. our opening sequence.

10. E
Inspirational Films
Precious
•We were inspired by these establishing shots
shown in the film.
•These establishing shots show the lack of
privileges Precious has in her life through
these images of her deprived community.

11. Kaya & Sanel
Theme and Concept F
Previously, our Theme was Possession and our Concept was Kidnap.
What Went Well
• The idea was unique, no other previous opening sequences did this idea
• It suited our genre, it would scare our audience
• It created enigma, climaxing to a point so the audience would watch more
Even Better If
• The idea was too complicated, not many people understood the plot fully
• To make it more simple, not to have too many things going on at the same time
• To focus on either possession or kidnap
• So… We changed our Theme and concept because we changed our genre, therefore
we had to make it so it can connect with the conventions of drama.
• We also wanted to relate to our audience more and make the film more ‘real’ to them.
• However we wanted to also send out a message that can educational the teenagers
that would watch the film.

12. Kaya & Sanel
Theme and Concept F
• To come up with out new Theme and Concept we all decided to without thinking about
the genre, come up with a completely new idea.
• We all wanted an idea that could relate to our audience, making it seem more real to
them. Therefore Kaya came up with the idea of hallucinating.
• We then as a group like the idea of it and thought we could connect with the reality of
drugs to send a message to our target audience, about what drugs can do to you
negatively.
Theme: Concept:
Drugs Hallucination

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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