Inspiration for my opening

For my film opening I was looking at creating a Kidulthood based theme, its going to be a Dramatic film about the hardships of living in east london. I was going to base my two main characters on a mix of characters personalitties. For example, Trife; drawn between two different lifestyles. A young "street hustler" that will attempt to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life. To  set the scene I want to have to have several establishing shots in progression. I want the audience to immediately know the setting. I may have a man on action to portray the main character "Delilah" to her family but "Del" out of the home environment. I want there to be a clear distinction between her two different lifestyles. 

Establishing shot

• Church
• Going to school
• Getting into trouble
• Hardships at home
• Phone call with alerting message
• Drawn between two lifestyles

I think that having the contrast between "Del" and "Delilah" needs to be evident as it brings an irony to the  film but also you get to know both characters in the short time the film is being opened. So the shot I take would have to be short, snappy and effective.

I have decided not to go down the parody route because I think that parodies a long with comedies are the hardest genres to convey and film successfully, it requires a solid storyline, a large cast and a vast amount of different equipment also with a large time span and besides a solid storyline I do not have any of those other factors so that is the reason  have decided to stick with the more serious genre. It is not playing it safe by not doing a parody I just have to consider my options and how much time along with equipment that is available to me.