Narrative ideas

So, our new narrative idea is:
we have a victim, and the victims friend who are both bullied by a group of boys and girls from their school.
the victims friend decides to side with the bullies to prevent being bullied himself. Left alone, the victim is hurt by her only friends betrayal, and continuing to be bullied, she is pushed to her limits and decides to take revenge on the bullies, resulting in murder, also murdering her ex-friend, it is then revealed that she was in love with him, making his betrayal even more painful. As no one suspects her of the murder, and the police investigate with no leads to the victim, she becomes tormented by her own guilt and pain, and contemplates suicide.

Storyboard changes

Our basic idea for the storyboard has chaned a little. Instead of the trailer focusing on the victim, we're now focusing on the victim's friend, which means the narrative will be about the friend abandoning the victim. This means the narrative changes from being about bullying to bullying and betrayal, which will be reflected in the trailer. This gives us more of a chance to add ideas, because the narrative is more open, and add in lots more camera shots, as it can be from different points of view.

Start: Equilibrium of main character walking into a party scene. Loud, fast paced, upbeat music, lots of people.

Walks through, editing switches from fast to slow, blurry, clear, black and white, etc. This will be done to emphasise drug and alcohol use. As the camera focuses on different people, we edit the scene to quickly flash to those people's deaths. Camera sound, etc.

(None of this is very clear, so that not too much of the narrative is given away.)

End: Yet to be confirmed...

We still need to decide actors, as they need to be perfect for the part and reasonably good at acting, storyboard completely, and play around with the macs more so we know we can actually achieve this effect.

Storyline

We have a storyline for our film which will obviusly reflect on the trailer:
It is about a boy who is bullied by his classmates, then takes his revenge on them by killing them. This part of the story is reflected in the trailer, however there will be more to the narrative which is yet to be decided.

We have an idea for our first shot, which will be a pan of a full circle of bullies (from a point of view shot) laughing at the camera mockingly. The sound will be echoed and the image slightly blurred to create the effect of the victim breaking down.
We have started to cast our bullies and are sorting out costumes. The costumes will be a basic black skirt or trousers, white shirt and we are looking for school type ties to buy for our actors, (suggesting they are still at school and ages 16/17). They will need to be dressed to reflect a rebellious character; the opposite to the victim, so dressed to suggest they are rebellious, sexually active, outgoing, party goers and not academic, so the girls will have short skirts and alot of make up, and the boys will have untucked shirts, loose ties and possibly beer bottles if we shoot it in the park. If we shoot in a school setting, alcohol bottles will not be present.