Week 3 Post #5

Thursday 2/22/24  - Storyline 

Hi, blog!! It's great to be back and I am excited to share you guys the final storyline. This storyline has altered a lot in my head. Randomly at school or at home I'll get an idea and I will just picture and imagine the entire opening in my head thinking if I should include it in my idea or not or change my story. After a lot of brainstorming and planning, I have decided on the storyline. This is a big moment for me... I am finally here to share my vision officially. 

So... let's jump into it

Story:

It starts off on a deck where the boat is parked and my friend is standing on the deck holding alcohol (fake) cheerfully then the camera will follow her getting onto the boat and all of my friends rooting. Then the camera will show my friend amping up the diegetic music (pop/upbeat music) from the boat speakers which turns into non-diegetic as it turns into the montage soundtrack. The montage will consist of various clips of my friends and I dancing, having fun, and tubing. One important clip of the montage will be my friends telling me to drink and me hesitating until I actually do. This goes to show that they are not the best influences and that I don't like underage drinking. The montage will end and so will the music. Now the sun is setting and a clip will show my friends and I hanging out on the back of the boat except someone is missing. This is now where the tone starts to shift. So I mention out loud '' Where is ....'' and I head out to the front of the boat. I see my friend passed out on the floor with white powder on his nose. I scream for help and my friends rush over. I sit down in shock while my friends gather around the body figuring out what to do. They decided to hide the body since we could not turn to the police since we had been drinking and did not want to go to jail for underage drinking. It is now night time and a shot will be me sitting down on the boat in shock without a single thought behind my eyes. The lower bottom third in the background will be my friend dragging the deceased friend from the shore where a tree stands to leave him there. This scene will have no cuts to create more tension. Just one long shot. While my friends are dragging the body and me staring into nothing, I will take the alcohol bottle that was next to me and drink it willingly without expression to ease my stress. This goes to show how my altered state since just a couple hours before I hesitated drinking and now I am willingly drinking without my friend's influence. The opening will end here with a black screen after this long take. What I think would be really cool is if it could start raining during the second half of the opening but Obviously I cannot control the weather but I think it would really add to the tone.  

For the first part of my opening here is an aesthetic/vision board I am trying to go for:

For the second part of my opening here is an aesthetic/vision board I am trying to go for:

I am really happy with my idea of my story I think it's very creative and a great way to approach a teen/crime thriller movie. I wanted to do something different and introduce the conflict in the opening rather than about twenty minutes into the movie. I think this will grab the audience's attention quicker and will want the viewers to know what will happen later on. For example in my opening I want my audience to think and question: '' Will they get caught?'' , '' Does the police find the body?'' , '' How do the teenagers react after this situation?'' and etc. I am so excited to start filming I can't wait. Except, instead of me filming this Saturday I will film on March 9th because I have a wedding to go to on the 24th which was unexpected and then the weekend after that my friends will be out of town so we agreed on March 9th. I will update my calendar for you guys on the next blog. 

Talk to you guys soon !