In documentary filmmaking, the first one to three minutes is crucial. It’s the time when you need to grab the audiences’ attention and make them want to stay for the next hour. I’ve just written the opening for my film. I’m soooo excited. Here it is:
SEQUENCE 1 –
The camera is mounted on a car facing forward; it travels along a long and smooth road changing lanes. The image is distorted, some parts blown out, and others are blurred.
Sandra V/O – “You don’t want it, but you’re on it. Grief is a one-way ride. There’s before now, and there is now. Forget how it was. There are no U- turns, short cuts or bypasses. Grief is non negotiable.”
We see archival footage of Bill playing with his children.
Sandra V/O – “I always imagined Dad and I would make amends on his deathbed. We never got that chance. After the car accident, he never woke up. The ultimate way to have the last say.”
We see more footage of the car’s POV as it moves through traffic.
Sandra V/O – “It had all the clichés, ‘a freak accident’, ‘wrong place, wrong time’, ‘inexplicable’, but there was something different about this one. I mean, it was happening to us.”
Text- A film by Sandra Cook
Sandra V/O - “This is the story of me, my family and the woman who killed my father.”
Bam! I’d watch it, a creative masterpiece!!!! Stoked.
Written on 09 May 2005
Over 7 years since incident
Tags:
documentary, freak
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