Today I finished writing the radio excerpts that are going to play at the very beginning of my film opening. They were inspired off of recent Venezuelan news I researched on online newspapers and radio such as El Nacional or a radio program that I listen to by Cesar Miguel Rondon. Some specific examples include police brutality, scarcity of food, etc. These radio excerpts will play at the beginning of the movie as establishing shots of where the main character are being shown on the screen to juxtapose the perfection of where she lives now to the mess of a country she left behind.
This audio tactic had two purposes for my opening: to add context and establish conflict while also being a way to make my film fit the foreign film category better. Since I could not actually film in Venezuela and there wasn't any similar setting that could appear to be Venezuela, I decided to make my opening about a woman who moves to the United States but in order to connect that with a Venezuelan theme the audio element will take the place of Venezuela. It also contextualizes her situation because since the movie opening leaves you questioning whether or not she will be able to find medicine for her mother in Venezuela who is unable to find it in their country, there needs to be some sort of explanation of the extent of the problems her country is experiencing.
Of course, the radio excerpts will be subtitled in order to remain comprehensible to English speakers while being a foreign film.
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