So for several weeks now, our basis for our story line was that we wanted our main character to wake up in an unknown location, having no recollection of where he is or what happened to him in the last 24 hours. Now, we knew this was a common opening used in many films so we wanted to take that and intertwine it with a moral, or a sort of lesson, if you will. This moral would deb that people are not always what they seem and that you have to be careful who you trust, which I think many young people and young adults can relate to since they are building up on life experiences. The moral of the story could easily portrayed by personal experiences and knowing how it feels to be betrayed, deceived, etc. But what we had never addressed was the underlying issue our protagonist is faced with upon waking. Recently, I've had time time to research on amnesia, delirium, and other memory loss sources which is ultimately what our main character experiences.
This source basically help give a basic definition of what amnesia and delirium and i think that we could really bring awareness to this issue in our opening. whilst editing I realized that the quick cuts and shakiness of the videos is representative of an amnesiac's mind, our main character, struggling through their confusion.
A quote from a medical website states that "people with amnesia — also called amnestic syndrome — are usually lucid and know who they are, but may have trouble learning new information and forming new memories". This really relates back to when I discussed inspirations that we had in making the plot line, in which I had mentioned the movies involving Jason Bourne, who, he himself, was an amnesiac who could not remember anything from his former assassin past.
The basic plot line of our film wanted to emphasize that our protagonist had been implanted with a chip, which I persistently tried to create when making Danny's scar on our day of filming, and that the homeless man that he meets has something to do with it upon revealing that he knows the characters name. By doing this and stopping our opening at that moment, we are emphasizing that there is more than just the protagonist in conflict with himself but there is also an unknown conflict that is soon to be revealed. We emphasize this our use of questions left unanswered or practically unanswered throughout the duration of our opening.
Therefore, when discussing our film titles we really wanted to be able to portray the essence of our film. Possible titles included The Chip, Delirium, and Patient 101. However, we wanted to offer a double-meaning, significant title and while Patient 101 was a play on the book 1984 and mind corruption, we wanted to focus more on the manipulation and experimental part of the plot, since the protagonist is being manipulated and blackmailed by this implanted chip. Therefore, we chose "SUBJECTED" as our film title. It was both a play on the word 'subject' because he is a subject in an experiment and a play on 'subjected' which entails that he is being forced to undergo something. We are all very content with the title:)
"Amnesia." - Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic, 4 Sept. 2014. Web. 06 Apr. 2016. <http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/amnesia/basics/definition/con-20033182>.
"Amnesia, Confusion, Memory Loss, and Altered Alertness." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2016. <http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/confusion-memory-loss-and-altered-alertness-topic-overview>
N.d. List Verse. Web. 3 Apr. 2016. <http://listverse.com/2013/10/13/10-bizarre-cases-of-amnesia/>.
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