Saturday, 9 January 2010

New Storyline

A teenager under the influence of drugs.

A know its a bit cliched however i believe that it has to be a simple storyline in order for it to succeed.

The film will still be done in black and white as this makes it darker and gritty.

Storyline in detail:

Abdul a 17 year old boy is in his house with his friends. He is in the bathroom and pretends to hold gun to the mirror. He improvises a gun from his fingers and imagines himself as a gang member.
He makes his way downstair's where his friends are gathered in the living room.
His friends however are drug addicts and anti-social. Abdul is slowly being influenced by them. Abdul is uncomfortable with them inside his house, but rather than asking them to leave he lets them stay. He is offered a drug which he takes. His 'friends' are delighted and carry on drinking, taking drugs and messing around. Abdul sits on his sofa disjointed from the rest of his 'friends'. He sits there nervous and completely out of his head. He has lost control.
His 'friends' make no attempt to comfort him as they really do not care about him, they just need a place to 'relax.'
Abdul finds the strength to get up and stumbles to the kitchen. He has blurred version, has pains in his head and feels sick. He makes his way to the kitchen where the pain in his head becomes unbearable. He vomits in the sink and starts to clutch his head.
He imagines that he has a gun in his hand. Improvising a gun from his figures once again he draws the gun to underneath his chin and pretends to pull the trigger.
He crashes to the floor and shakes uncontrollably. He can't breathe. His neck and hands are bloody. He's dying from a gun shot wound to the neck.
He tries to scream but can't. One of his friends notices he has gone and sees Abdul dying on the kitchen floor. He calls the rest of his friends over and they run to the kitchen to help him. It ends.

The ending is not meant to be taken literally. He hasn't been shot in the neck however it is meant to show that the pain that Abdul feels is equivalent to being shot. Abdul pretending to shoot himself is a symbol that he is as much the cause of his own pain (maybe death) along with the influence of his 'friends'.
The first scene where Abdul is pretending to have a gun symbolises his own downfall. He hasn't got a gun yet and he isn't fully involved in gang culture however he is going down that path. It is only when he takes the drugs that he realises his mistakes, however it is too late.

The film will include no dialogue. Only the Clair de Lune soundtrack that i was going to use for my previous story.
I believe that a film is good when you can take away the dialogue and still understand the story.

The films key points will fit in with the Clair De Lune Soundtrack. I believe that this will be the hardest part.

Instead of building the soundtrack around the film, the film is built around the soundtrack.

However the soundtrack will not be placed at a constant volume and other sounds will include sirens, a gun shot, heartbeats etc. Also the soundtrack will not start straight away but gradually fade in. This will make it a short film as opposed to a music video.

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