Proposal

For my short movie, I plan to base it round the mental illness ‘schizophrenia.’  The story will be single strand, focusing on the thoughts on the actor/actress who has the mental illness, showing my audience what it would be like if they had the same mental illness, making them aware of the illness and grabbing their interest as they will be more involved in the story.

 The film will roughly be 30 seconds to 1 minute long drama film revolved around the idea that this person with the mental illness is keeping it a secret from the others. It will also feature one more individual looking at the schizophrenic person, with a voice over that will be their thoughts of how that person is ’odd’ due to them not being aware of that person mental illness.

 To create the thriller (drama), it will have crosscut editing and a closed ending, leaving my audience to wonder what will happen and what did happen. I hope to make it linear so it flows more and fits with being realistic.

It will start off with the main character walking to their collage/school like normal, however, they will start to hear faint whispers inside their head (which the audience will be able to hear). That is when they will shake their head and carry on walking. As they are walking they will pass by their class mate, the sound will instantly change to the thoughts that are inside that classmates head. The thoughts will be along the lines of them judging the main character, then they carry on walking away.

This is where the cross cutting will take place. It will jump from the main character walking to class, looking around suspiciously, then eventually seeing things (e.g. faces) watching them (this is because my primary research shows that majority of people that i asked are more afraid of being watch.)  Then it will switch to the classroom, with the noise of people chatting loudly. After, it will suddenly switch back the main character and their thoughts getting louder, chanting words like ‘pathetic’ as they rush to the class room, the sound of their heart beat increasing in volume and tempo. It will keep switching back and forth between these two scenes as the sound of the classroom chatting and whispering voices combine. As the two scenes combine when the main character opens the classroom door, all the voices will go silent apart from the main characters breathing hysterically. That is when the screen will turn black and the credits will roll up.
Majority of these shots will consist of extreme close ups. 

This film will hopefully raise awareness with my audience (12A) as it will be realistic as possible.