Film Planning - Story

The story depicts a teenage girl. We don't know her back story but we do know (within the first few shots that is) that she is deeply upset, however we don't know the reason/s until later on.

I aim to make the film seem as if the audience is walking through a gallery of moments in her life. I intend to do this by mixing fast paced flashbacks then slower edits which differentiate her past with her present. Also i feel the tranquility of one of the locations used will help juxtapose her past with her current situation as well as its to show she is more at peace now.

The theme of this film is a social realism view on strong emotion. I feel in the majority of hollywood films I have watched, many of them don't show the real pain people go through and I feel its a very important thing to show, especially as society today is affected a lot by what they see on screen to see something real, and raw if you will, being shown in the light of day would be an interesting thing for an audience to see. Hopefully because of this reason the audience will feel a connection with some of the emotions conveyed in my film.

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.". This quote by Collette is heavily related to the subject matter of my film. Grief is such a powerful thing, and the way in which people deal with it is incredible. One surpasses any idea of the strength they though they had, which is a curious and beautiful thing to me.

I rejected the idea of an linear narrative because I felt it would be better to engage my audience into the story if i gave them 'bite size' pieces. Moreover, I wanted the audience to be really moved, so I thought a sudden climax of my story would be best suited to the subjects I chose to present.