5 Minuet Drama Pre- Production

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CHARACTER BIOGRAPHIES

STATEMENT OF INTENT

STORY LINE

It may be hard to admit to someone that you think that you might be bipolar, but it’s even harder to admit it to yourself. As Kayla  receive a break-up text from her boyfriend she spirals out of control and decides to commit suicide, but will she do it. 

Kayla was born and raised in the United Kingdom, by a wealthy and loving family, but when she turned eleven years old things took a turn for the worst, as her father lost his business due to bankruptcy and illegal scheming he decided to commit suicide, and when her mother decided to stop him, he ended up kill her, Penny Kayla's older sister) and then himself. From the age of eleven, Kayla found her life change drastically as she had lost both her parents she loved dearly and forced to move into an orphanage, where she was bullied and abused by the other children. Kayla attitude to life started to change as well, she decided that being a good girl was getting her no were, she lost her faith and changed all of her believe for the worst as she started getting in trouble with the police, sleeping around and befriending local yobs.

The main subject of the story is mental illness. I will show this by using only one actor in a dramatic realisation of her insanity, I think that I am the best person to write this story line because I am familiar with a person who suffers from the same mental illness, so I know a lot about it factually and personally.

In the beginning of the story we see a flashback of a girl Running in a traumatic state, but we have no idea how she got to that sate, the story then rewinds to her in a classroom receiving a text message  from her boyfriend say 'were over', she becomes unormally upset and over traumatic (due to her mental condition), she runs to the bathroom, where she attempts to pull herself together, but ends up in a more emotional state, she then runs into the woods where she commits suicide twice, once by taking pill and when that fails, she throws herself over the edge or a cliff. 

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Kayla  was born and raised in the United Kingdom, by a wealthy and loving family, but when she turned eleven years old things took a turn for the worst, as her father lost his business due to bankruptcy and illegal scheming he decided to commit suicide, and when her mother decided to stop him, he ended up kill her, Penny Kayla's older sister)    and then himself. From the age of eleven, Kayla  found her life change drastically as she had lost both her parents she loved dearly and forced to move into an orphanage, where she was bullied and abused by the other children. Kayla attitude to life started to change as well, she decided that being a good girl was getting her no were, she lost her faith and changed all of her believe for the worst as she started getting in trouble with the police, sleeping around and befriending local yobs.   

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Photographs Of costumes/props/locations

Costumes

KAYLA COSTUME-This choice of costume is chosen to fit the stereotype of a modern day teenage girl’s wardrobe  

Props

This is the prop used as pills in the suicide scene.  

Books and pencil cases are carried and used by Kayla through the first sequence of the short film 

Locations All these locations are chosen as there obvious and recognisable  college locations, and would be obvious to the audience  

Floor/Location Plan

Floor  plan  for  the classroom,  that  the classroom  scene will be shot in 

Floor  plan  for  the Rother  field  toilets, that  the  toilet scene  will  be  shot in 

Script

Over, My Dead Body

Opening Sequence:POV footage of Kayla’s Journey to college with voice over, 

Narration- Kayla‘Five hours before the end of my life, I had just started the beginning, but I guess that’s the problem with life, it goes by too fast. And just when it all starts getting moral, it all falls down’.Shot of Kayla Running in slow motion: Narration- KaylaMy name is Kayla I am one of the reported 276,000 teenagers who attempt suicide a year, but I am one of the few who succeeded, and this is my story. 

Reminiscing sequence:Voices playing in Kayla’s mid as she runs  Kayla –I love you so much Jason, I can never leave you. Jason-And I will never give you a reason to.Jason-Promise you’ll marry me one day and no else in the world will matter. Kayla-I promise with all my heat Kayla-You’re the only guy who has ever loved me despite everything about me.  I don’t want to die, I scared, but I guess that was the only way I could do it, though fear. But then again I could be completely wrong, it might not be fear that killed me, it could have been courage, the kind of courage that comes from a dangerous place. Jason might be the cause of my death, but I can’t hold it against him, he should continue to be free and full of live, (sigh) only over my dead body. 

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