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Movie Opening: Though there has been a strong case made by molly to begin the film within the front seat of the Volvo I feel that the film should begin in the classroom first mentioned in the introduction. After the standard titles we find blue sitting in the classroom of Zolo Kydd, one in the mass of students attending the lecture. The camera zooms in on blue and we have a flash back of her conversation with Jade, the loose ends conversation, she then stands and leaves abruptly. We follow blue through out the corridors to her room where she begins to type. Then begins her voice over and a slow pan to the map where she has marked all the places she has lived. We then zoom in on the map breaking its calligraphy boundary entering the real world and find the Van Meer Volvo going cross country, a young blue inhabiting the front seat with her father.

The reason I believe that the film should start in the school is because the inciting incident is Jades call. I feel that this return of the past to the present is what first draws the reader/spectator in. There is a bit of mystery about a character we have yet to meet but blue has. Also I feel that the film should be done as blue writing through her experience, thus allowing an omniscient narrator who can comment with V.Os and show us the visual aids. There are far to many visual aids to include them all but there are a few that would definitely add to the film… however sorting through all of them and figuring out which ones would be a tremendous feat.