Storyline

Current Narrative

• Starts off with a split screen divided into 3- each representing a different life
• 1) Eating Disorder
• 2) OCD
• 3) Trans
• Each person is asleep when their alarm goes off- they go to turn it off and by the alarm is a glass of water - currently half EMPTY
• the idea here is to have each shot very similar so that the shot of the glass is the same- needs to be carefully planned out- so a possible pan from bed to alarm to glass
• We then go into the individual narrative
• So the first split screen will continue its story
• The narrative idea is that each student is on their way to a lecture
• get up
• get dressed
• walk to lecture
• sit down in lecture
• BUT each person has different conditions and so what happens after getting up and arriving at the lecture will vary
• The order of the narrative isn't final yet but we would like to mix all of the 3 narratives up so it is fragmented
• For example: Eating Disorder gets up and goes straight to mirror or bathroom (several shots taken) but then we might cut to OCD making their bed or washing their hands and then cut to Trans who is binding their breasts 
• Then we start again creating a fragmented yet continuous narrative
• Ideally the narrative will be a circular narrative where we start with the cup being seen as HALF EMPTY but then we feel it is HALF FULL
• This narrative involves the audience
• What are our initial impressions of mental health?
• Are we unnecessarily pessimistic?
• Are we naive?
• Are we judgmental?
• We would like thoughts to change through the short film- an understanding of the difficulties at the start and then an understanding of equality and acceptance at the end
• We want to include statistics and facts about mental health so we are incorporating the documentary style- we are producing to inform- we want people to learn from this
• When considering sound- we wanting the majority to be non-diegetic
• voice over
• possibility of us talking- or someone talking who has experience such struggles
• a conversation between people
• with soft music underneath the voices as there will be pauses from the voices at points
• the main focus here is the effects of mental health, dialogue and too much acting can distract from the point we are making