Now that I know what genre I'll be doing I am going to brainstorm some ideas and find what I like best and what I can execute well. So I had an idea a while ago but I just never had time to develop it further and I think it would be perfect for a 2 min film opening. It's a girl who has very bad anxiety and panic attacks and everyone she talks to thinks she is crazy, she has no more friends, her parents don't care, and her teachers are too busy to see, a big part of this would be the main character talking to her diary because no one else would listen to her. I have somewhat of an idea for the beginning but the rest is pretty much up in the air. It would start with a wide shot of the back of a girl riding her bike and it's a tracking shot, and you hear the bike, and a couple seconds after the voice-over starts and she says something along the lines of " I don't know when it started, maybe it was when I anxiously tapped my leg in math class or when I could breathe after being called on, but when it started it never went away" and as she says this we see some shots of those events happening. When she says "It never went away" the screen goes black and the title appears. Since I want to show how other characters in the film don't relate to the main character I think the next scene after that should cut to a medium shot of the girl at home, in the back you see and hear parents fighting about their financial situation, the girl is sitting at a table doing homework and you can see a tear fall off of her eye, by adding this scene I can give the audience some back story on why the girl may be struggling with her mental health. I am thinking of adding a scene after that when it's later in the day and we see the girl walk over to her mom and start talking, the mom dismisses her because she is busy working and says that they can talk later, the girl walks away looking very upset, next I want to add another voice-over of the girl explaining what is going on with her parents, something like " being an only child is hard you know, you have your parents of course but in my family, we are all kind of alone... my mom and dad fight a lot, like every day about something new, and I've tried making things better but they do not want my help, I don't even think they really care about what I have to say" here we see her actually writing in her diary but some flashes of her family fighting and not really talking to her. The next scene I want it to be at school and I am deciding whether or not the girl has a scene with her teacher or her classmates. I think I am going to go with the girl who has a scene with her teacher, here we will see the teacher's face but it will be an over-the-shoulder shot of them looking at the teacher because I think I can get more emotion with the teacher instead of the classmates. This will be somewhat of a confrontation where the teacher is talking to the girl because she has bad grades, here will hear the teacher tell that the girl is doing really bad. Next, we'll have a shot following the girl out of the class as she storms into the bathroom where she goes into the big stall and slams shut the door, here we see the main character panic attack in the bathroom, I've seen a couple movie show panic attacks and one of them is A Man Named Otto. In this movie, we see a scene where Otto has a panic attack and doesn't know what to do. In my film, the girl will have a panic attack but I want to make it more dramatic where we see her struggling to breathe and slide from the wall after she starts crying. and then we hear a knock on the bathroom door. So basically the plot is about a teenage girl who is struggling with her mental health and she has no one to turn to so she turns to her diary where she tells all her problems but one day while she is crying someone new comes into her life. I'll keep on looking deeper into this story to see if I can come up with any more ideas, I'll write more when I look deeper into similar movies with this kind of plot.
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