​AARON'S AS MEDIA

The film begins with an ‘early twenties’ year old man, leaving work (or a teenage boy leaving college), throughout this scene we never see his face and his identity is not revealed. The camera follows the back of his head as he walks out of work (college), then cuts to him on the bus on the way home, then to him walking down his drive and into his house.

Next we cut to him opening the door to his garage, he has completely changed his attire and is now wearing all black with a hoodie and a mask (the V for Vendetta mask). From opening the door, onwards, the footage is very dark and yellow (supposedly lit only by the garage light and later by streetlights) the tone turns quite seedy as the audience are unaware of who the character is and what he is doing in his dirty, old, rundown garage. The music then begins, the music will be non-diegetic and either noble (like the music of WoodKid) or grime music (depending on the character chosen). The camera then cuts to a bunch of spray-paint cans which the character’s mask is hidden behind, the mask is slowly revealed as he picks up and drops the cans, one by one, into a backpack. The camera is then facing the ceiling of the garage, the characters hand then grabs the camera and drops it in the bag (as if it was one of the cans) and zips the bag up, into darkness, so the last image seen in this part of the opening is the mask.

Then we cut to a train station at night, dimly lit by streetlights. The character is alone on the platform, still masked with his hood up.  He’s sat in the idle of the bench with the backpack beside him, by now the music has gone and we are left only with the diegetic sound of the train station (almost silent). A train comes and blocks the view of the camera from the character, once the train moves away the character is no longer on the platform. Next we see the character walking out of a large, city train station (from behind his head) once he is out, he stands still looking out at the city as men and women walk around and past him, the camera then spins around his body and focused solely on the mask, the titles there end.

Throughout the sequence we keep cutting to the same character in his dimly lit room, practicing graffiti in his ‘black book’, written on the pages of the book will be the actual titles. Occasionally the titles will be written on the environment surrounding the character, during the main narrative.