The blurb (film summary)

Olivia is the story of how one girls world falls apart, as she learns family life is not all as at it seems. The story follows her on a long quest to discover the truth, she has to battle her way to avoid meeting the wrong people and ensure she meets the right people. Everyday Olivia learns a new lesson and slowly matures from being a child to young children.

Shot list

1. Close up of pictures falling on to a table.

2. Continuous shot, same as before, more pictures falling on to a table.

3. Film titles appear

4. Extreme close up of characters eyes, This enables us to show her emotion.

5. Long shot of the character in a bedroom. The character will be sat on the bed. The room will have a pink colour scheme to signify that the girl is still young.

6. Over the shoulder shot, this enables the audience to be able to see what the character is seeing.

7. Close up of the letter that the character is looking at, the letter will be blurred as if its a point of view shot.

8. Medium close up of the character reading the letter.

9. Extreme close up of the characters eyes reading from the letter.

10. Medium close up of the girl sat on her bed holding a teddy.

11. Close up of the folder and its contents on the bed.

12. Long shot of the girl walking to the window.

13. medium shot of girl looking out of the window.

14. A pull focus shot looking out of the window.

Story Board

Change In Direction

I decided to change our opening as originally I was going to use a series of shots from outside of the characters house looking in through a window. However after some discussion I decided to change the plan. I was inspired by the opening of my sisters keeper where it features a photo montage to show key points of the characters life. Our new opening will feature images from the characters life so far. I will sequence the images in a chronological order so the audience can feel as if they know the character already.

Our Script

Originally I did not plan to have a script and just have non-diegetic music playing as the film starts, however after analysing multiple different drama films I discovered it is a convention to have the main character describing the story to update the audience to save having to display the complex beginnings. I adopted this idea and I am  going to use a voice over from the main character to describe the story so far.

"It's November the 27th, the day after my 16th birthday. I received the worst present anyone could get. (pause) I found out i was adopted. See this letter here it's from my mum, my birth mum. All she keeps saying is hoe sorry she is and how it was never her choice to give me up.

All my life they have been lying to me, never telling me the truth. How just how could they keep this from me. My parents, wait I guess my adoptive parents keep telling me I wasn't ready before but they think i'm ready now, how can I be ready now, I may be 16 but i'm still a child, i'm too young for this, this heartbreak. How wold they have felt at my age.

I guess it's not their fault they were just trying to protect me. But she's out there somewhere, my mum, my birth mum.

Feedback from when we presented our film idea.

When I presented the first two minutes of my film to a group of people who were part of our target audience I found that they thought the soundtrack fitted the proposed story-line as it emphasises the emotion of the characters. Also they liked the idea of an adventure to discover the main characters truth. However they thought as I am having very little/no dialogue we should make are storyline clear through the props I am going to be using.

Treatment - Olivia

Its the 27th of November and Olivia has just been told some devastating news. She is adopted! After hearing this news she decides to go on an adventure to find her birth parents. However this journey does not go to plan. Soon after running away she finds herself out of money and luck, which leads her sleeping rough on the street. After meeting some obnoxious characters, which plan to lead her astray and persuade her to take drugs and commit crime, she is given a small amount of money by a passer by. Taking this money to a small café she buys herself a hot chocolate and starts talking to the waitress, Margret. After getting to know each other Margret starts to give Olivia free warm drinks everyday. They soon build up a very close friendship and start to talk about how Margret’s daughter once gave up her child when she was just 15. After discovering this news Olivia decides to reveal why she ran away from home. Putting the two tragic stories together they soon discover that Margret is Olivia's grandmother. Margret persuades Olivia to get in contact with both her real and adoptive parents.