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Visual

This is the first storyboard for my film sequence Broken Soul. It includes elements from the different ideas that I have gathered for it, such as the props, characters, lighting and editing.

Characters

DAN 

Dan is a golf teacher with his membership jumper and shirt combo with loose black golfing trousers, right down to his new golfing shoes. With money in his eyes, he tries his best to help his students but as his job loses importance he loses interest too.

JAMES

Dressed in his favourite polo shirt and golfing trousers, James brings along his golfing clubs to his local golfing centre. He’s tall and lanky, with hair covering his face. He walks with his back hunched slightly and his head to the ground.

ELIZABETH GREEN (MOTHER)

Elizabeth Green, is dressed in a pastel jumper and trousers, with her favourite pearl necklace and headband. She has a maternal look about her and her groomed hair has become messy and grubby.

JOHN GREEN (FATHER)

With a stern look on his face and gritted teeth, John Green has worked hard for his possessions. He wears his designer clothes proudly and checks to straighten up his tie. His shoes are off and his colorful socks are revealed. Only a few strands of messy hair have escaped from his smooth exterior. Normally he oozes allure, but now, slumped against the cold basement wall, he looks fragile and pale.

Locations

FIRST LOCATION - GOLF CLUB

SECOND LOCATION - MY HOUSE (Living Room + Kitchen + Basement)

First Script Draft

Script Outline

SCENE DESCRIPTION

Starts with the boy cutting open a grapefruit, slowly. He juices the grapefruit, with the juice representing blood and the skin representing human skin. He transfers the juice into a glass, adds sugar then takes a sip. 

He opens the door to the basement and walks down the stairs, slowly. We hear muffles of sounds and screaming through taped mouths. 

The parents are revealed and their muffled screams gets louder. He stands over them and takes another sip from his drink. He peels away their masking tape from their mouth.

DIALOGUE

DAD: You sick bastard!

MOTHER: What are you gonna do with us?

The boy takes another sip from his drink

DAD: Say something!

The boy spits out the drink.

MOTHER: Why are you doing this?

BOY: Why not?

The father kicks his legs out in fury.

FATHER: Look son, lets talk about this, whatever you're going through, we'll understand.

BOY: You'll never understand! I'm not your son!

FLASHBACK STARTS AND ENDS

The boy holds his head. The parents start talking to him, trying to give positive thoughts. But their voices are muffled.

MOTHER: Everything will be fine, just let us go and we won't say anything more about this.

FATHER: Listen to your mother, listen to us, you need help, we'll get you some, we'll get you some help.

The boy tries to block out the noise, he sways and starts to wave his arms around, creating a mess of destruction. He punches the father and the mother screams.

MOTHER: NO! Stop it!

The boy leans over the parents with a knife. A camera shot shows the door closing and the scene unfolds in the distance.

Pitch for Broken Soul

When a troubled young boy is adopted by a suburban couple, he struggles to adapt to his new life and finds that his past still haunts. In order to cope with his past he takes his anger out on them but becomes more and more violent. Will they be able to escape from him or will he continue to torture them?

The film will be set outside London where he kidnaps and tortures his adoptive parents. the film will appeal to viewers aged between 18 and 30. It is a psychological thriller based on the film We Need To Talk About Kevin and has aspects of the film Juno. The setup will begin with a brief backstory of the boy and the adoptive parents then the confrontation would be when the now older boy has a flashback of his past that haunts him and causes him to kidnap and torture his adoptive parents in their basement. The resolution is not clear as we do not know whether he kills them or leaves them in the basement.

Inspiration Moodboard

Both of the films that I am analysing play on the idea of relationship between a mother and child, however, the film Juno plays on the struggles during pregnancy, and the film We Need To Talk About Kevin talks about the struggles after pregnancy. The two mothers in the films Juno and Evie both show that their bond with their child is unexplainable because it is unique between them and their child. For my short clip based on these two films I will show  the bond of not just the mother but the father too. However the love between the parents and son will be unexplainable too because even though the son is no their biological son, they still try to love him unconditionally. My short film would play with the idea of a troubled relationship between a parent and a child.

My film idea is about a troubled boy who is adopted by a couple in a suburban neighbourhood. The boy struggles to bond with his adoptive parents which results in releasing his anger by bullying his adoptive parents when he's older. This results in him kidnapping and torturing his parents. The film ends in a cliffhanger because we dont know whether he's killed his parents or not.

Domestic Danger Storyboard

Domestic Danger

Domestic Danger is a short film sequence that I have made. The plot is about a woman who has mental health issues which causes her to kill. I got the idea for my film sequence from the popular TV series Dexter, as in the opening titles there is also links to food and drink being referred to murder and blood. The different reference to blood and murder include the squashing of the strawberries, straining of the raspberry tea and the colour of the raspberry tea. I asked my sister to play the role of the murder victim in the shadow shot. I filmed from an iPhone so I had to find different methods of getting the camera straight. In order to make the film more interesting I used different camera angles and played with different lighting effects.