The summary of my groups film if we were to film all of it:
A teenager has been constantly abused by one of his/her parents and one day takes refuge in a wardrobe, locking themselves in. This teen's parents bangs against the wardrobe door trying to get them out whilst the teen falls asleep- when the teen wakes up they find a completely different world and meets a character who (according to Propp's archetype's of characters) would be the helper and is suitably named the 'Hung helper'. The pair have a short conversation and the teen establishes that he/she is in a fantasy world, the 'hung helper' suddenly disappears and the teenager is confronted with his/her fears: an exaggerated version of the abusive parent. The pair have a short confrontation but the teen escapes the threat of being hurt using this fantasy world to his/her advantage.
As the tenager explores this new place, a flash of reality rings in their ears: a sobbing person, calling his/her name but she doesn't make the connection and continued on her way. During her explorations this character meets others and forms a friendship with him/her: these trusty 'friends' all try to aid the teen in getting away/ killing the abusive parent before he/she meets his/her own end. This parent picks off her friends in the fantasy world and has a tree as an accomplice who helps the parent to trap the teen they abuse and kill them, therefore the teen would die in reality.
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Jake, Stacey, if you could give this a read-through and we'll discuss if I've put this up right and then other aspects of our two minutes we'll film. (: x
ReplyDeleteThis is an intriguing idea - it sounds a lot darker than other fantasy films. I suggest your group watches "Pan's Labyrinth" in its entirety... it might help you look at the fantasy genre in a way more suited to what you want to achieve with this.
ReplyDeleteIn the end of the treatment i put the teenager dying in reality with the flash of white and the teen in a coma then a flash of black and the song you h=chose in the background and as it fades the long beep to insinuate that teen is dead.
ReplyDeleteGood - nice ideas in here. I want you to go and find out about Vladimir Propp's character achetypes - find out what they are, and think about how they might influence your film.
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