A More Concrete Idea

Hi peeps! So, during these past few days, I have been discussing the new idea that my partner and I want to implement in our portfolio project. If you asked us a week ago what we were doing, we wouldn't have possibly had a concrete answer, but I think we are starting to get it. After doing some research on some coming of age teenage films, I landed on films such as:

 Booksmart(2019). 

Even though the films revolve around the teen comedy genre, throughout the whole premise, the two main characters(as shown by the cover) grow to a level in which they experience various situations before leaving for college, which means that they both grow and develop throughout the storyline. This is what my partner and I want to focus on throughout our production; However, we want to add a slightly more dramatic tone to the scene(while still being light to the audience).

Now, our idea is not perfected yet(far from it,) but I hope you enjoy it and can see the vision that we have towards the scene!

Our idea will begin in a house as a group of girlfriends are getting ready to go out. These friends will be joking around and doing their makeup as the main character, who will be a blonde high school teenage girl will seem as having a good time with them. The girls will show a great connection and some scenes will have to gossip between the girls to show that they have developed trust with each other. As the scene develops and the group of girls is getting ready to go, they will proceed to hurry the main character who is showing uncomfortability in the scene, demonstrated through the shots. The group of girls will go outside the room as the main character remains. During this part of the opening, the main character will grab a guitar and begin playing it, one of the girls comes back to get the main character out of the room, and as the main character is leaving, she will look back at the guitar laying on the bed before closing the door. the scene will transition with a black screen with the writing "four hours later"(don't know the font yet) in which the girl will enter the room again only to find the guitar laying in the same place as she left it. She will sit down next to it, turn off her phone(to demonstrate the disconnection that she wants from the social world) and begin playing a song which will lead to the name of the movie showing on the screen(don't know the name yet). 

Basically, what the scene will attempt to transmit to the audience is the feeling that the main character has of wanting to be left alone and the battle she has with her social status and her passion which is music. The film will be a coming of age teen drama as the character will battle throughout the whole film with finding her true passion and following through with them, while still battling with the things that don't allow her to follow them, one being her social status.

Again, we hope you can see that our vision is yet to be perfected, but cut us some slack and know we'll get there! There are many things to decide, but we are sure that we'll leave you wanting more. So long! PEACE!