Our two minute film opening has a comedy drama genre, which is a serious issue presented in a light hearted way. The serious issue we have chosen to portray is OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and we felt it necessary to fully research the issue to get a better understanding, and in order to convey our protagonist correctly.
Through the research, we found that sufferers can find themselves helpless to 'irrational urges'. These could be numerous things such as obsessive cleaning or continually checking the doors and windows are locked. This is defined as 'anxiety disorder' and adapting this idea to our character, she would show distress over the smallest of things.
There are 5 main types of OCD sufferers. These are;
WASHERS - those who wash compulsively.
CHECKERS - those who check things (in our case a picture frame not straight) over and over.
DOUBTERS - those who doubt that something bad will happen.
COUNTERS - those who count things or line things up in order
HOARDERS - those who hoard things away for fear of something bad happening.
After further research, we have decided that our protagonist will display symptoms of a checker, a counter and potentially a washer.
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