Getting the Ball Rolling

We feel quite deflated about our lack of inspiration so I decided to set the ball rolling and coming up with my own plan and concept alone and see what the others thought about it in hope that this would spark some ideas.

So firstly, as we all liked the mental idea i thought it was best for my ideas to stem from this. 

While listening to the song i thought about where the protagonists craziness could stem from. She is directed the song to someone in particular which is shown through the pronoun 'you' as she is 'screaming for you' i thought this was maybe a cry for help. 

Going from this i then decided that maybe she was in a bad relationship but then came to the realisation that going to an all girls school finding a male character would be quite tricky. 

After this i thought maybe she was being bullied?  So i went with this idea and started to story board while listening to the song which i found helped me to envision what was happening much better. 

 

Here are my rough story boards- 

1) So first i thought we could have an ECU of the protaganists eye which zooms out to an empty room which would end up being a 'room in her head' with her sitting in the centre with cuts and bandages on her. 

2) Then i thought there could be a flashback to her at school in a classroom with the whole class laughing at her (wide shot) and then an ariel shot of her with everyone throwing things at her. 

3) Then there would be a flicker of her sitting in the classroom alone and her being really sad (lip syncing) 

4) Go back to this room in her head. With nurses trying to give her medicine or an injection or something and she is restisting. It would then black out leading to the next flashback. 

5) The next flashback would be at a park. We would have shots of her swinging on a swing and flickers of an empty swing swinging and a roundabout going around by itself creating a really eery atmosphere.  The same girls then appear bullying her again showing that she has no escape from them. 

6) Go back to the room again. I thought it would look really effective to have a time lapse of the girl doing crazy things such as swaying in the corner or looking dead pan into the camera or scratching at the walls along with other things. Then the end shot will be her screaming maybe? and then collapses again leading to the next and last flashback. 

7) she is being chased by these bullying girls and she is looking back to no one being there and then shes corned under a bridge and they begin fighting or something like that. 

8) The last scene would be back in the room and I thought maybe throughout each flashback she will be adding to a drawing. Then the nurses in this room- show her this drawing she's made and she gets frightened and then they take of their nurses masks and reveal that they are the bullies.

The end. 

There would also be lip syncing in between to create a more performance element rather than just a film with music over the top.