As we’ve continued working on our film opening, we came up with a new idea that would further introduce the character. At first, we were doing a musical, so the lyrics would explain more about the character, but since we had to scratch the idea, we had to improvise. After doing research, we decided that the best option was to do a voiceover.
We took inspiration from the movie Mean Girls (2004) and Riverdale (2017) which both use voiceovers in order to introduce the main story and main character. We chose these two because they both are targeted to teens and young adults. This is the same audience we are targeting with our film, so we decided to take ideas from successful films and shows like these two.
This is a scene from mean girls in which a voiceover is used to explain what the viewer is seeing (starts at 0:23): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7SYnc0x4YQ
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Mean Girls received huge success and is seen as one of the most iconic teen movies. It made a cumulative gross profit of $130,125,829.
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The following clip is from the pilot of Riverdale, a teen show that began in 2017 and has been highly successful since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDsv8Vemabw
“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
Based on Archie's comics, the drama teen show has a rating of 7.1/10 on IMDb, but it's been shown to be very popular amongst teens.
Janey, Raisa, and I decided to make our voiceover introducing Mia as a senior in high school who is aspiring to be a dancer, and we also wanted to introduce the concept of her living in a very small-minded town, as well as her part in the LGBTQ community and her relationship with her parents. We made several drafts but decided to finalize it once all the editing was finished. Below is one of the drafts we made for the voiceover that Janey will narrate during the film opening:
“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.“Mean Girls.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 30 Apr. 2004, www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/.
“Riverdale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Jan. 2017, www.imdb.com/title/tt5420376/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
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