Opening Sequences

Paper Hearts

The storyline of this short film is about a dysfunctional father and son relationship in which we discover that the father has been sleeping rough. The main character in this film is the son as we are going through the story with him (feeling what he feels, being shown what he sees (we discover the secret with him – didn’t already know about it)). In the beginning 2 minutes we are shown the relationship between the father and son, immediately we are aware that there are problems between them due to the fighting and this is made to be clearly unusual by the woman intervening. The main issue that arises during the opening is the loss of the sons bag which sets off the rest of the story leading to the discovery of the father sleeping rough. Also in the opening there is some foreshadowing due to the homeless man that the father and son walk past and how the father and the man seem have some sort of connection.