Opening of our film - Narrative

Initially the structure of our opening was going to start with an equilibrium where Brad is sitting with Emily on the sofa, they are looking through a photo album of their family picture, reminiscing about Brad's wife, they are happy and content and the atmosphere portrays this mood between them (Originally scene 1). This was then going to go onto a rising action where Brad detects the rioters coming. However, later after some discussion we decided to change the structure of our film to make it more interesting. This would be by, starting off with the last scene (scene 5) where there is a panning shot of Brad alone in the kitchen, the atmosphere is dull and there is a sense of tragedy, isolation and frustration  that we want the audience to feel as Brad is reluctant to eat and pushes his plate away with a long sigh. The reason why we wanted to start the film off with this scene is because we wanted to challenge the typical conventions of Todorov's theory of equilibrium - climax - disequilibrium and solution, and start off with a montage of discontinuity,  we thought by doing this we would interest the audience more  as it would create suspense and ambiguity for the audience  making them question what's going on? What happened? What's going to happen? And why he is in this state etc.

From scene 5 it would fade into a fall in action where Brad and Emily are sitting on the sofa (originally scene 1) and from this it would go onto the rising action of the rioters coming and finally onto the climax where the house is on fire and Emily dies. After this there would be no resolution.