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Proposal

Set in the early 1990’s Toby is a 17-year-old boy who has chosen to work in a dead end job to escape the awkwardness at home. He feels he need to hide a secret from his mum and doesn’t know how she would react to it. One night Toby’s secret won’t stay hidden from his mum and he will have to deal with the different paths he could take ahead of him. His secret could change his life forever. (Re edited soon)

Character profiles

Toby

16-17

Shy and introvert Toby is a person with only a few close friends. His Father leavening home brings up bad reactions to both his social and private life and it is not until coming out as gay to his closest friend he feels the first of many signs of rejection. Not the stereotypical gay guy, he is constantly covering up his true self as to escape from the oppression that he has become so used to. He has a close relationship to Evelyn his mum and feels that he could discuss problems he is facing in his social and private life with her.

Cloths:

Checkered shirt with generic nametag

Plain work trousers

Black shoes

Evelyn

40-45

Evelyn is a kind woman who still believes in old family values. She works a full time dead end job and is struggling to pay rent on her house. She has a son called toby and they share a close relationship. Her Husband left a 5 years ago and she has had to look after Toby by herself ever since. She cares a bit too much about Toby and often over worries. She has started to notice Toby has become more secretive recently and has started to wonder what is wrong.

Cloths:

Bright blouse

Long skirt

Big glasses

Black shoes with a slight heel

Inspirations and visuals

Blog

http://www.tumblr.com/blog/headrushwt

Short films

https://vimeo.com/13768695

https://vimeo.com/22564317

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P-IveAmg5vA

https://vimeo.com/32151543

http://vimeo.com/23997002

Feature films

Rules of attraction

Ring

But I’m a cheerleader

Edge of seventeen

Milk

Fit

Quotes

“I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that’s where us gay people come from… you heterosexuals.”

-Ellen DeGeneres

“Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody’s different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.”

-Bruce Springsteen

Again, this film (Julia's Eyes) was quite recent so hard to get screenshots, but again lighting within a basement where a apparent suicide takes place, again blue and cold lighting with very selective shadows.

In the new David Fincher version, there was a scene with Daniel Craig, being tortured with a plastic bag over his head - now I know this is being the opposite of your story, but due to it being in a basement, it was very well lit, quite cold, blue light. With your scene we could look to do the opposite, very warm, and shadows, will post another torture or suicide research item when I find the right screenshot

Hey Kallan,

Been looking at some time lapses of Decaying Fruit/ flowers. This one among others are really well done, apparently this one is 8 hours a SECOND! haha Im not really sure how we are going to tackle the task of getting these and making them look exceptional.. leave that to the techys.. but thought you might want to look at these if you havent seen them already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyuMq3IuEQM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLObejheKEw&feature=related

I also love this, saw it ages ago but maybe we could do it with red fluid? make it look like blood in ECU's? I think im super slow motion that'd be weird! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU

Inspiration for sound design and visuals for suicide.

inspiration for experimental illness montage.

Proposal First Draft. (Rough)

Head Rush WT

Story Outline:

1st Act

-Boy browsing shelves in a Connor shop noticing different sweets and drinks.

-Notices a packet of sweets that takes him to a flash back of a birthday party in a back garden

-Goes up to the counter to pay for sweets and a drink then notices a packet of cigarettes which takes him back to a memory of play fighting with his dad.

-He is then snapped out of the flash back with the shop keeper Repeating how much he needs to pay.

-The boy then pays and asks for a bag and quickly leaves the shop with a slight smile on his face.

-When he goes outside he is thinking and another flash back happens and its of him and his friend playing on a games console late at night.

-He then sees a dead bird at the side of the road and it pulls him into another flash back of him lying on his bed and you can hear muffled yelling coming from outside his room from the parents.

-He carries on walking down the road until he walks past window with a TV on. He then thinks about another moment with his friend where it is made clear that the friend is put off from hanging around with him because he is sick.

-He then sees a reflection of a lamp post in a puddle and is sucked into another flashback. He is sat in a car with his mum and dad in the front and him in the back complete silence except a slight sob from the boy and the dad and mum not looking at each other.

-He then turns onto a street and you see the street name and his pushed into his final flash back which of him and his mum sitting on a sofa with the boy crying and the mum saying "It's ok you will be better soon, you will be back to normal in no time".

2nd Act

-You then see a door handle and the boys hand open it. when the door opens you see the mum sitting in the same position as the flash back.

-The boy walks in and the mum says "Hello hunny what did you buy from the shop?" the boy mutters something and quickly leaves the room.

-As he enters the bedroom he throws the bag on his desk and pulls all the items out. He then lines them up and opens the drink and takes a sip.

-You see him start to think again and he starts to write on a notepad on his desk.

- EXPERIMENTAL ILLNESS MONTAGE OF THOUGHTS

3rd Act

-All the thoughts of illness has built up quite a lot in his mind and he grabs the bag he got from the shop and pulls it over his head.

-He ties that handles round the back of his neck very tight.

-You then see him struggle to breath and the bag tighten around his head as he breaths in.

-He then falls off his chair trying to take the bag off but failing.

-You see the boy lying on the floor still and then suddenly the mum come bursting though the door.

-Then a voice over of the boy will start to read what he has jotted down on his paper. towards the end of the letter you then realise that what you thought to have been hard times and illness he has been going thought is really that all the people around him haven't been very accepting of the thoughts and feelings he has been having to the opposite sex.

Locations:

House, Car, Shop and Street.

Characters:

Main: Mum, Boy, Shop Keeper.

Extra: Dad Friend and younger version of the boy

spoken-to-film

Homosexuals in Cinema

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFK5WNH

If anybody could take time to fill this questionnaire out id be really grateful its for my essay and research for my next and final film at university! :)

Wow. This has a few things that I really want to echo in my film like the use of what looked on there as a flashback and how it merges in with what she has done. I feel this would work really well as of the harsh decision my character makes at the end of the film.

boypopproject

#gay #marriage #quotes

Update.

Ok so here’s the second update! After throwing my ideas at lots of different people gay and straight I have made changes in my idea. I’m not finalising it until I get some feedback from lectures because if I get my heart set on a final idea they may tell me I can’t do it. So the new idea I’ve had with the help of feedback is that there will only be one person walking along by himself and he will be thinking about gay still being a disease but this time there will be no voice over it will be visual images relating to what he is thinking and also flash backs of problems he has recently had. It will still work in the same way not revealing that gay is the disease in a flash back later on. I am still going with a suicide at the end and am still in research for how I want to portray this. The ending is now going to incorporate my second idea where he goes home and starts to write a letter. When the parent comes in at the end after her son has killed himself whilst she is cuddling him she is going to start to read the letter. This is where a voice over will come in and it will go to the credits as the boy is reading the letter out. This I feel will give the film an ending showing the audience a reason for him doing this. But at the same time with no voice-overs throughout the rest of the film it keeps a strong experimental aspect. So there you have a more updated version of my idea still very rough but coming together I feel it is a lot stronger than before.

#film #idea #gay #death #homophobia #feedback #Suicide #video