Planning: opening scene narration - Miss B

Opening scene narration

The scene starts with the introduction of the main character. There is a girl shown to be in the middle of a blank, spaced out room with only a bed and a toilet. Immediately the setting connotes that this girl is being held in a prison like location. The audience can see that the girl is on her knees crying with her head down and her body is fragile in what resembles a foetal position to reflect her innocence. Her face is also completely covered by her long messy hair to hide her identity. The character is presented in a loose white costume which represents her purity and the freedom she has. The camera positioned directly in front of the girl starting with an extreme long shot, slowly zooming in closer and closer. Within around 2 seconds of the zoom in, a flashback is shown of her past, when she had been raped a short quote is remembered ''it's like nothing ever happened''. This is said in a happy tone but used in a bad event to show the audience that the rapist is comfortable with his actions as if he has done it before and is comfortable with it.


As the scene develops, the zoom in carry's on directly in front of the girl then with a sudden change of screen, another flashback. This flashback shows her and her boyfriend having a good time, smiling then they start kissing and the boyfriend makes his actions more aggressive forcing the girl. The girl is refusing but the boyfriend carry's on getting more aggressive, overpowering the girl to what she does not want to do. The quote said by the boyfriend is similar to the rapist '' Don't worry, it'll be like nothing ever happened''. Then a blur of fast images that sum up her being raped is shown whilst on screen overlapping sounds are heard of her screaming and the quote being repeated again and again on a loop. The fast images then get faster as well as the sounds are getting faster.


The scene then goes back to reality carrying on from being intense to calm, then another thought of a point of view is shown of the girl seeing her boyfriend on the ground dead with blood pouring out of his stomach. She lifts up her hands seeing blood scattered all over and scissors gripped in her right hand. The scene then shows her being taken away by police and her crying with confusion ''I didn't do nothing!''. This flash back then leaves the setting of her house with her at the back of a police car and sirens and flashing lights from the police car are shown.


(Still in a flashback) The girl is then shown to be getting booked in to a mental facility in which a zoom in to the number plate of the cell the girl will be placed in ''B13''. The door is opened which then immediately goes back to reality in which the camera shows a medium close up of the girl in the same position as the start but she is quiet now, and is still showing no movement.


Towards the ending of the opening a nurse is shown to be walking down the corridors of the facility with a smile, holding a tray of food. The man  holding the trey is then scanned before entering the cell ''B13''. The man enters the room and his first words are ''how are we doing today'' trying to be kind and opening towards the girl as if they have talked before and he is comfortable with being around the girl. The man carry's on trying to make convo but the girl doesn't reply at all with no voice or movement. The man then gives up kindly with trying to make convo and bends down 'saying don't worry you'll be alright. It'll be like nothing ever happened''. (knife in nurses pocket)


At the end the girl the lifts her head up and a fade to black is shown with off screen sound of a grown man screaming and sound of slicing and body parts crushing and squashing. The fade to black then goes into a straight cut with the view of the girls eyes in which we see the nurse dead on the floor with blood pouring from his body and the girl with her hands up with the scissors in her right hand.


The scene completely ends with a straight cut showing a close up of the girls face with her hair out of the way so we can see her eyes wide open. Her facial expressions are serious and aggressive. After several seconds of showing an aggressive look, a smile is then triggered by the girl ending the scene.