Learning Aim C Unit 19

 Proposal  

 

Title- Fading shadows 

Genre- high school drama 

Synopsis: Ashanti is a high school girl, and she is an introverted, talented girl who struggles to fit in at school as she is overshadowed by the people around her however her passion for photography allows her to capture the beauty of the world and escape herself doubt. It is up to her whether she allows herself doubt and the others around her to continue to overshadow her or to breakout and show her talents. 

 

Logline- fading away is a high school drama filled with emotional turmoil and a girl who struggles to fit in at her school resulting in her feeling like an outsider, but she has a strong passion for photography and capturing beautiful moments to forever look back on. 

 

Narrative overview: 

ACT 1: Ashanti gets to school and decides to skip the rest of the day after the first period as she felt unseen and overshadowed by her classmates as she was wondering around, she found a closed are of the school. 

ACT 2: she decides to take out her camera from her bag and start taking pictures to capture the moment. When she decides to go back to school, she bumps into one of her overshadowers that gloat over her  

ACT 3: Ahanti had decided that she has had enough and decides to show her talents 

 

Characters: 

Ashanti- the main character, quiet and reserved really enjoys photography, dresses in monotone coloured clothing always carrying her camera in her bag just encase she wants to take pictures she's timid as others around her overshadow her 

Jeremiah- one of the few people that know of Ashantis talents, encourages her to show people what she can do he is on the basketball team and is considered popular dresses in mostly black with a pop of colour always has a basketball with him 

Aaliyah- friends with Ashanti knows about Ashanti’s talents wants her to show her talent always sticking up for Ashanti, she plays volleyball and is really good at it and has been offered apprenticeships, wears brightly coloured clothes 

Nova- is a cheerleader but is far from cheerful she is one of the people that overshadows Ashanti and doesn’t want to see her have the spotlight and she is one of the people that discourages her 

 

 

 Film treatment 

The dialogue that will be used by the characters will show their age as it will contain a bunch of slang as they are still in high school and young. The short film will only pay attention to the important parts of the main character life and not follow their evry step as to get the narrative moving along so it will involve tracking to an extent as it would only follow the main character in certain parts of the short film 

Film purpose 

The purpose for the film is to show the lives of people in high school and how they might feel and what they get up to in their day-to-day life as a high school student and how it can affect them for the most part the short film will go with pre-existing themes and conceptions of what it’s like to be a high school student but it will go against some of the representations as it will show has teenagers can be mature and resilient which are words that aren’t associated with the youth as they are seen as loud and rowdy. 

Target audience  

The target audience for my short film will be between the ages of 13-26 years old as the short film is based on high school which is based on teens and some people want to look back on high school and some are curious about it, and it contains slang that the younger audience would use and understand and as it is based in a high school the location will be in America so it would appeal to an American audience 

Legal and ethical considerations 

The short film will not have copyrighted material such as music which is preventable by checking if the music is copyrighted which can be done through apps and websites and copyrighted material will be checked for scripts and there will be research done as to not misrepresent any group of people and no offensive language will be used towards any group of people and there will be no blasphemy as there will not be the mention of god in the short film.