During our research we looked at various films from the same genre that influenced our own ideas for our opening sequence, one of which was called "London to brighton". London to Brighton was written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams in 2006. The film is said to be a crime thriller but also appends upon the idea of social realism, drama and child prostitution. The film is low budget as they worked off of £500,000. The title "London to Brighton" describes the journey that Kelly and Joanne take as they flee from Kellys' pimp. The opening credits are very moronic and plain representing the film as being mysterious yet serious. The film starts with a bang as Kelly and Joanne burst into a rundown london toilet. It is clear that something has happened as Kellys' face seems to be heavily beaten and Joanne is hysterically crying, As people try to acess the toilet Kelly shuts them showing that they may be hiding from someone inparticular. However Kelly then asks Joanne if she wants some food and then sits her down in one of the cubicals and tells her "not to open the door to anyone". This exhibits motherhood and emotions portraying the film as being a drama. During the film we observe a series of flashbacksof how the pair ended up in the situation that they got into making them run away to brighton, the state of Kelly's face instantly tells us where we are on the timeline .There are five key sequences in the film these are the opening sequence, flashback scenes, the scene in which their location has been found, the scene where Joanne and Kelly are taken to Stuart and the final scene when Joanne returns to her grandmar. These scenes are key because without them the storyline would be difficult to understand. The director of the film uses a cluster of shots where juxtaposition is shown. For example when Joanne and Kelly are on the train to Brighton, We see Joanne looking out of the window we then get a tracking shot of the bright view of the feilds outside representing a new start for Joanne and Kelly, however it then cuts to a chain of rundown shops in the middle of london this juxtapositions the state of mind that they used to be in and the state of mind they are in now. Because there is a lot of tension created in the film they used a lot of quick cuts to make the audience feel the tension. The film ends with the scene where Joanne has returned to her grandmothers house and from a distance Kelly stands and observes. The director left us this disunity for the audience to continue the story in there own mind. It also suggests that behind a person that may seem tough there is also another person inside them that holds strong emotions, As she walks away and returns back into london we feel obliged to have sympathy for her. This film relates to our ideas a lot as our film is also being based around a runaway that gets involved with the wrong crowd. It has also given us the idea of using flashbacks to make the storyline more intresting and gripping, and to changing our genre from just a drama into a crime drama.
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