Mental Illness Research and Planning

Mental illness research and planning

 

Mental illness?	Explanation?	How would it be featured?	Focus group rating?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder	People use repetitive actions to reduce their anxieties.	Obsessively positioning objects and keeping locks on doors.	2nd
Caffeine related disorder	I addiction where a person feels they cannot cope with out coffee.	Shoots of piles of used coffee cups and coffee beans scattered everywhere.	5th
Alzheimer’s	Severe memory loss and behavioral changes.	Forgetting to turn off gas hobs, lights, etc.	3rd
Schizophrenia	Delusions and hearing voices, often letting the voices control there lives.	Disembodied voices.	4th
Night terror	Shouting, shaking and fighting while still asleep.	Dark night time bedroom scenes, vulnerable.	1st

How would I include the mental disorders in my opening sequence

To include obsessive compulsive disorder in my opening sequence I have a few ideas. Here they are:

Stacking coins into piles – this could be speed up to give a rushed and fast moving sense to the opening sequence
Constantly writing lists
Nail biting
Constantly rearranging objects 

For Caffeine related disorder I imagined loads of used coffee cups piling and over flowing onto a sink, it a very messy disorganized style. I would do some tracking shoots of the mugs and a close up shoot of the inside of a coffee cup (perhaps with mold growing on it – to give a sense of time). 

To include Alzheimer’s in my opening sequence I could have seen of forgetting to turn off gas hobs, lights, etc.

Schizophrenia could be featured in the form of writing, I would like to disjoint the footage of someone writing and overlay then over the top of each other. The best way to involve Schizophrenia would be through use of special effects and edits, this would allow me to create a subtle hint of mental illness. Without being cheesy and predictable. I could also use sound effects of disembodied voices.

Night Terror could be featured through dark night time bedroom scenes, vulnerable styled mise-en-scene. I could use this mise-en-scene to create dramatic tension.