Desperate lives

 Opening scene of desperate lives: film openers.

Welcome to desperate lives opening scene. In this scene, we will Identify all the micro and macro elements, so let's jump into it.

The opening scene will start of with contrasting realities meaning that the lower class will work for upper class and it's location will be Beverly hills and this whole opening scene will be captured with a n establishing shot.

Light settings: Natural light 

Sound settings: 

1: Electronic music for Leo's scene.

2: Muted and acoustic music for Richard's scene

3: City sounds

Character settings:

1: Leo ( a 40 year old) who is a multi millionaire.

2: Richard (a 38 year old) who is a servant.

3: Ian (41 year old) working two jobs and living a normal life.

Tone and theme settings:Thought provoking and economic inequality and class struggles.

The camera pans over the cities contrast:

1: Skyscraper vs normal housing

2: Fancy restaurants vs food banks

The scene shifts between story lines of characters are:

1: Leo's luxury lifestyle: drinks, clothes and parties.

2: Richard's lifestyle: struggling with money.

3: Ian's lifestyle: living a decent life.

First of all we start with an establishing shot covering the time and location. Will put a fast cut to other people and an eyeline match cut to see their reaction on Leo coming in his Roles Royyes. Then we will have an another fast cut to cut to the ground level shot as he comes out of the vehicle and then cut to to a dutch angle shot. 

The next thing is that we will capture Richard in a static shot. Then we will do a shot reverse shot toward Leo with the dutch angle shot. As he comes near Richard we capture both in a shot reverse shot and POV shot to indicate their conversation. Then we put a close up shot capturing Ian and do eyeline match cut to show the direction he is looking at.

Leo: Offensive and arrogant character.

Richard: Offended character.

Ian: the Nice guy.

Next we capture The walking of Leo and Richard's character in a ground level shot. And will do a sleep slight dolly in to the feelings of a character. Now with a fast cut and another reverse shot, we will capture Ian with a big close up shot. And Finally, we come to another ground level shot to capture Richard sitting and Ian's feet and then do another POV shot to indicate their conversation. As that ends, we do an another big close up to indicate that Ian is doing charity.

This scene will also include the diversity of both the characters and their experiences of life.