CONCEPT IDEA 3

 GENRE: DRAMA/THRILLER

'tHE AMERICAN DREAM'

-The location of the scene begins in the 1950s American style kitchen as we are 

introduced to the ‘house wife’ happily 

making breakfast for her family. The 

women is dressed in typical 1950s 

clothing: 

-As the opening titles appear, the                

camera pans over photographs of 

her children and family portraits; 

meanwhile a radio is shown and it 

plays the diegetic weather forecast 

of a storm approaching.  

-This announcement causes the women to smile, creating a slightly 

unsettling tone as the ‘radio’ begins to play a stereotypical 50s song 

which continues to reflect the disturbing tone arising. 

-The four breakfast plates, 

consisting of American ‘delights’ 

from the era. The 

women is pleased with what she 

has made and goes to sit down 

with her ‘family’.  However, as 

the camera slowly pans out,revealing the women sitting alone in the kitchen and instead of a family, she is joined with dolls that depict two young children and a

man. The housewife continue s to smile and enjoy her food as the music continues to play.  

The main concept of this opening sequence is to depict the desperation for the suburbia ‘American Dream’. The narrative will follow the protagonist in her lonely desperation to have a family and live the ‘American Dream’ that she sees around her, she goes to extreme measures in obtaining this fantasy even if that is taking what isn't hers.