Genre research - Choices

Once completed our research into drama-films about drugs we have had to make decisions on which elements were more appropriate to be copied or used as a source of inspiration for our opening: having to collocate all our scenes into a  period of time of two minutes we had to decide what, among all the aspects of drug-dramas we had discovered in our research, was really essential and could fit in our work.

Money

Money is always an important element where the movie is about drugs, but, since our final storyboarding included only the introduction of the main character, we decided that focusing the opening on the theme of money would have been inappropriate.

Drugs

Having to choose which type of drug we would have had to fake, we made a comparison among the ones we had found in our film research to decide that in the end syringes were neither easy to find nor really appropriate for a school project like this. Pills did not look like a good idea since they are usually associated with female characters and our protagonist was going to be a boy. 

Cocaine, on the other hand, would have been easy to reproduce by using a small transparent bag containing some flour and would create a better effect than pills: noticed that, we finally agreed on the kind of drug we were going to fake for our opening.

  Negotiation

Time has been the main factor that prevented us from showing the negotiation aspect of the drug topic in our opening: with only two minutes we just managed to present our main character and his addiction issues.

Bag/Briefcase

Characters who are involved with the market of drugs are often carrying a briefcase or a bag presumably used to carry the substance that they are selling or about to buy: we thought that being a student, a bag carried by our character would have been justifiable.