Narrative Planning of our Opening Title Sequence- Stage 1

After having planned our initial storyline, Eloise and I (a.k.a. 'BB Productions') had the idea to find a poem to use as the speech for the anti-hero's narrating voiceover. We found one that we really liked and thought conformed to our storyline, however it was copyrighted as it was found on the internet. There was a contact email address on the website in case of people wanting to ask permission, and so we conducted this email to send to the poet:

Within just a few hours of sending this, we were very thankful to recieve a reply from the poet! 

This is the poem that we have recieved permission to use in our OTS, called Collusion of Silence by Matt Castaneda. We have decided to only use the first verse in our OTS, however, if we were to make the whole film, we would have used the rest of the poem for when the anti-hero commits suicide (which is our idea for what would happen if the film was full). The following poem is copyright to Matt Castaneda:

Collusion Of Silence

© Matt C.

I live everyday with everlasting shame,
with everlasting regret,
with everlasting pain,
Why? What have I done to beget?
I don't forget, like a tight corset
of the pain that tightly constrains my soul
and turns my heart into deep, dark coal.

So there's nothing left to do,
except load this bullet and blow straight through.
For every somber moment,
every haphazard mistake,
every broken promise,
every failure,
all my doubt,
all my lost hope,
all my poisoned love,
can go straight through
the bullet hole I just blew.
Now, they can escape to the surface, 
in hopes of a higher purpose, because I'm sadly through. 

One bullet, one dream, one doubt,
and the one fire no one helped to put out.
So say goodbye, 
and don't forget to say hi 
to my demons passing by;
For I am Satan's now,
no matter how hard I cry.
No one can hear me anymore, 
forever suffering, forever silent, forever I die.

Source: Relief From Feeling Alone Poem, Collusion Of Silence http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/collusion-of-silence#ixzz2mYN7cike 
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