Our Main Task.

A DISTANT MEMORY.

Our story follows two teenagers. One teenager (girl) has a mental illness and has turned to alcohol to solve her problems. The other teenager (boy) is more reserved and seems to be troubled by something, yet we don't know what it is. The girls shots are in black and white, whilst the boys are in colour. We later find out this is because the teenage girl is living two years in the past and the teenage boy in the present.

The girl had died those two years ago and her spirit had remained trapped there, reliving that moment. The teenage boy was the girl's boyfriend at the time of her decline and has never really recovered from her death, making frequent trips to her grave. The movie shows her decline in health (through flashbacks and split screen editing), her addiction to alcohol and eventually her death. - (Which are common conventions for our genre)

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If we were to make the whole feature length movie, we would obviously continue to show her decline from when she was once happy with her boyfriend, up until her death and everything that happened in between. The enigma set in our opening two minutes will also be solved, and all the audience's questions would be answers as the storyline progressed. (Questions such as, who's grave is he visiting? Why is the girls scenes in black and white? What happened to the girl? etc) By having the ending of a film at the beginning, creates the enigma and keeps the audience intrigued to what actually happened and why. By having all of this at the beginning does not give away the storyline resulting in a 2 minute film - it captivates the audience to watch future. - (which would of been good if we were to make the whole feature length movie)

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We chose this idea because it remained a psychological thriller whilst not having so many typical conventions that could come quite predictable. We believe that this idea would appeal to our target audience (demographic) of teens 16-25 because it would create a fresh outlook on this type of genre as well as creating that enigma needed for them to continue to watch.