My Opening Two Minute Film : Creating a Film Synopsis...

Title: Identity
Genre: Documentary style crime thriller

Core audience: Mainstream Plus

Would attract: People from the age of about 17 onwards as it is quite a complicated story line, those that are interested in crime thrillers, also those who are interested in psychology and the whole debate on "nature v nurture". Due to this element of compassion, family and upbringing affecting later life I think the film would attract both females and the added element of crime and psychology would attract males.

Logline: What makes us who we are today; what determines what we become in later life, is it down to nature or nurture;  one film, one million questions on whether our future really determined from conception

Basic summary of Identity:  A documentary style thriller that focuses on family and the paths of two brothers (Jack and Sam Taylor). Both sharing a happy childhood, to growing up on the opposite sides of the coin: one breaks the law, one enforces it. Through flashbacks and interviews, it explores the issue of nature vs. nurture whilst playing out an old fashioned detective thriller between the greatest of adversaries

The opening:

We are introduced to the brother by the mother through her filming them playing and generally looking very content little boys, "home video" style shots shall be used for this part, again giving the sense of family and happy memories being created.

Then there will be an apposing question "what makes us who we are", in the form of an voice over (this will be done using the mothers voice) this will be played over clips of more home videos .

We are then brought to modern day, using a range of extreme close ups of the handcuffs, police detective badge the audience will be told non-verbally that there are is two characters (a criminal and a police man)

Then there be another apposing question "is it down to our genes..."  again in the form of an voice over (this will be done using the mothers voice) this will be played over clips of more home videos .
We then have an over the shoulder shot of the detective looking through a window-mirror at the criminal in the interview room

Then there will be the ending to the other question "...or our upbringing" again in the form of an voice over (this will be done using the mothers voice) this will be played over clips of more home videos .

We then use a point of view shot, of the detective walking into the interview room, the camera will then focus of the tape recorder rather than the people, and the detective states "interview of Jack Taylor resuming at 18:59 present is Detective constable Taylor"

My initial two minutes opening will stop there, leaving the suspense of the audience finding out what the two brother have become - one breaks the law the other enforces it...

The rest of my story:

The rest of the film, will explore how the brother ended up breaking the law, what his brother is actually investigating through a range of technique including interviews. It will also show further home videos, showing how each brother reacted differently to a situation, exploring their childhood in more detail. It will ask more apposing questions and get the audience developing their own idea of whether it is our genes that determine our future or our upbringing

The ending:

At the end there shall be a twist DNA results will come back, and show that actually one the brother were adopted at birth, showing the audience that our personality is all down to our genetics. I hope this ending shall be a surprise to the audience and a twist they were not expecting