Here is a brief synopsis of our film opening. Hope you enjoy!
A teenage girl (Halley) is seen mundanely getting groceries. She is wearing headphones and listening to music, seemingly lost in her own world, a stark contrast to the background of the shot where people are panicked and stocking up on food. Halley notices the chaos ensuing but pays no mind to it
When she finishes up, she leaves the grocery store, and as she walks out the doors a large planet is revealed in the sky. (This is where the title card will be). The planet is making its way towards Earth, explaining the panic in the store. The planet is big and beautiful, the kind of beauty that is hard to tear one's eyes away from. Halley clearly sees the planet, but her face is strained, and it is visible to the audience that she is forcing herself not to care.
She then gets in her car, and when she turns it on the radio automatically does too, giving the audience a brief exposition: a rogue planet will crash onto Earth in 5 months, spreading panic all throughout the world. Before a deeper explanation, she switches the radio station to blasting music. Right before she begins driving away the film opening ends.
Our inspiration for the planet came from the movie Melancholia (2011). Here is a still from the film:
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