Final Idea

Final Idea

After realising that our schedules wouldn't work out we decided to change the age of our characters, allowing us to film during and after school.  We changed our idea to include teenage protagonists meaning we had to change the protagonists talent, from writing to art. We also swapped the genders of the characters, opting to have a young girl with Asperger's and her male friend.  

Our final story, for the film, is that of a girl who is struggling to live a normal life due to the constraints placed on her by Asperger's syndrome. The girl makes an unlikely friendship with her new, male neighbour, who sits next to her in class, and he helps her overcome the isolation she has been suffering. In the process, the boy also discover's the girl's passion for art and encourages her so share her talent with the world, entering her in an art competition. Her relationship with the boy has a drastic positive effect on her life and she begins to break free of the strict rigid structure she had created for herself. However, around 3/4 of the way through the film the male character dies, undoing all of the positive work previously accomplished, this dramatically sets the girl back and she ends up in a worse position than she was at the beginning of the film. She then discovers a letter, or some form of correspondence, from the boy, from beyond the grave which inspires her to begin painting again, a pastime she had all but given up on after his death. His death has prompted a shift in her artistic style as she switches from rigid, structured art (similar to that of Kazimir Malevich) to expressive abstract art with messy brush strokes the likes of which she had previously been scared to try. The girl then enters her new art into the aforementioned competition and wins, getting it displayed in a gallery.

     Original painting style:                                             Post-death painting style:

We decided our trailer would not show the entire story of the film as this would reveal too much of the narrative to fit with the conventions and also to maintain interest within potential audiences. We decided to focus the trailer around the girl, her friendship with the boy and the impact he has on her life. The trailer will open with a scene of a moving truck driving off and the boy being established to be a new neighbour. There will then be a sequence of the girl's mum talking to her teacher, with her in the next room still able to overhear the dialogue from this scene will be heard over a montage of clips of the girl looking isolated and lonely, building sympathy within the audience for the girl's character. The boy will then be properly introduced as he sits down net to the girl in class, clearly trying to actively engage with her. There will then be a sequence of shots establishing their friendship before he discovers her love of art, finding a painting of hers. Their friendship will then be seen to be developing around art. There will be music behind this section which will morph into the sound of a heart monitor which will flatline towards the end, hinting towards the male character's death without giving it away to the audience. As the flat line sounds there will be a shot of the girl aggressively swiping a line of paint across one of her nearly finished paintings. The screen will then cut to black as a ghostly sounding version of her and the boy laughing (from earlier in the trailer) is heard and then the film's title will be shown on a black background before cutting to the trailers final shot, an expressive piece of art work created by the girl roughly resembling the boy.