In the opening scenes of Recurrence, we wanted a particular
social group to be represented, in order to fit with the audience that we are
aiming our film at. The main social group which is represented is a family,
which is clearly under stress and unhappy. As the audience will see throughout
the opening, it is a broken family, where there are two parents divorced with a
teenager who is left in the middle. We thought that our opening puts across the
stresses of a modern day family when the parents are no longer together.
As the film begins, you see a girl who is standing in front
of a big house. We wanted to leave the audience unknown to whether she lives in
the house and is from a well off family or whether she works at this house, as
it is meant to be set a long time ago. We thought that the switch over to the
present tense would leave the audience wondering what bearing she has on the
rest of the film and what might have happened to her in the past.
When the scene changes to the teenage girl and her mother
arguing, we thought that the audience would be able to tell that it has moved
to the present tense. We thought that the modern house and the typical teenager
attitude would give off this impression. The body language between the mother
and the daughter portrays a lot of tension and built up frustration through the
facial expressions and hand gestures. We wanted to portray the modern lives of
a broken family and what effect is has on the people involved.
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