Today we had our second group meeting. The main purpose of this meeting was to look at some documentaries to get some inspiration for how we want to approach our character study. Mainly, our focus was on a documentary called "My Mum, Heroin, and Me" which was shown at 9pm on Channel 4. The story is about a 20-something year old girl named Hannah. She is addicted to heroin and sleeps rough with her boyfriend by choice so as to not further disrupt her family's life. Although distraught over Hannah's choices, Hannah's mother supports her habit in many ways, including for Hannah's birthday, taking her to buy the heroin and giving her the money to get it. Here are the notes I took for the film:
Intro
- Video montage
- Voiceover: Hannah reading letter
Body
- Shots of Hannah walking during narration
- Close up interview w/ Mom
- Pictures of sister
- Shots of police
- Story from mother (thought Hannah had died)
- Boyfriend talking about criminal charges and stealing tv from Hannah's parents
- Shots of use in a staircase (night-time)
- History and problems (how things began/progression)
- Interview w/ hostel manager
- Hannah and mother meet for lunch
- other voiceover while Hannah staring blankly out of window
- Recent stories: mental breakdown (2007)
- Hope/Future plans/Strengths of Hannah's character
- *** "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley ***
- Childhood: rare disease
- trouble in school/growing up
- 21st birthday (April 2008)
- transaction scene
- camera in backseat
- Mother hands Hannah money
- Cuts to using scene
- Hannah returns and Mum gives her presents
- shot of Hannah's face through visor mirror
- Present time: June 2008 (depressing music)
- Hannah's 6th home since start of filming
- Change to daytime shots and lighter music (August 2008)
- Hannah faces charges: theft/assault and boyfriend arrested for begging
- Long shots of Hannah staring
Outro
- Court
- Hannah flys to South Africa for 5-month rehab
- Quick to credits
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