Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Finalised Film Idea- 'Silent Cry'

My film is going to start off with my production name and logo, and then it’s going to a shot of the female character sitting on the bed, then it fades to black, whilst the name of the film comes up (Silent Cry).

The voiceover comes in immediately and it plays the scenes in the film are corresponding with what’s going on.

She will explain how she is an orphan with no one to turn to for help. She lives with her boyfriend of two years. When she met him he promised to change her life, he promised he will make her happy and she will never want for anything, being naive and young she fell for him and soon after they started living together. They were happy together, she cooked and cleaned for him, he bought whatever she wanted and more. They were happy and she thought it would stay like that forever until everything took a turn for the worse. He starts by telling her not to go out and when she did she had to be home at a certain time, she stopped college because she felt she had everything, with that action she has no qualification to get herself a job or support herself financially, so she relies on him and with her gullible and naive thinking, she feels he wants the best for her so she complies with all he says and all he asks her to do. 

As the months went on, things started to get heated between them. Their relationship wasn't like it used to be, he would shout at her suddenly for no exact reason or push her out of the way if he feels she isn't doing what she’s doing right, this went on for a couple more weeks until one day he came back home from Uni and meet her asleep on the sofa in the living room, he get angry and slaps her awake, this is where her abuse began. He would come home every day and find a reason to hit her or shout at her. This went on for months and months, she didn't know what to do, she had no friends to turn to or family to live with, she would cry herself to sleep silently most night; (this is where i got the idea to name my film ‘Silent Cry’), she felt trapped and enslaved. She wanted to leave but she had nowhere to go. 

As time and the abuse went on she decided that she needed to leave the abuse, the violence, her unhappy state was taking over her life, she was living in fear and she didn't want that for herself anymore. She knew she had to stand up to him or leave when he was out, she took the easy option and decided to leave when he left for uni one morning. She packed all her necessities and hid it under the bed, when he left that morning she waited about an hour before she decided it was time. She left without looking back at the house she just kept going and going.
As the film comes to an end there is a shot of help lines and emergency contact numbers for those who suffer or know anyone in a violent relationship.

Camera Shots
·         I will use a Wide shot at the beginning of the movie to show the girl’s bedroom and everything around her. And also to show the thinking position she’s sitting in.
·         I will zoom in on my main character’s face most of the time; this is to show her facial expressions.
·         I will use mostly establishing shots when the scenes the girl is remembering is showing, this is to show the environment they are in.

Editing:
·         I will be using the ‘Dip to Black’ effect to move from one scene to the other.
·         I will also be using a ‘Cross-Dissolve’ effect, whilst the male character is hitting the female character with his belt.
·         Over the shoulder shot will be used whilst he female character is checking her bruises in the mirror.

Setting
·     The film is going to be set in One house, both character’s house, their bedroom, the sitting room and their kitchen

Costumes:
·   The costumes both characters will be wearing will be very contemporary.
·         For the male character he’s going to be wearing the normal jeans and tracksuit, hoddie, with timberlands.
·         For the female character she’s going to be wearing jeans, normal tops with flip-flops this is because she’s in the house most of the time she feels she doesn’t need to dress fancy.

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