A teen girl is living the perfect life in which no one knows how she really feels. She is a high school student who has the pressure of getting into college, keeping her grades up, and have a social life. Alice feels the pressure of being the best. She is very well known in her school: smart, intelligent, beautiful. Alice looks like she fits in but she doesn’t feel like she does.
The opening shot will talk about the main character, in this case Alice. The character will be introduced with a voice-over done by her best friend ,who will be part of the narrative.
After the two minute film opening, the story would start at school. Alice being with her friends and enjoying her time showing how her life is put together and how everyone thinks she has everything under control. The film would show Alice’s everyday life at school and after school hanging out with her friends, but it will also show those times in which she had difficulty falling asleep or how she would stare too long in the mirror causing her to have a panic attack. It will show both the dark and the light in her. She masks what she really feels, writing down in her journal to feel free and relief. At the end of the film, she will try to harm herself at a party, but her best friend finds her in time before she is completely dead. She is taken to the hospital and her parents decide to take her to New York to get the healthcare she needs. Her best friend ends up hearing about how happy and healthy Alice is when she gets a call from Alice’s mother saying that she is doing okay and that if she wanted to visit her in New York City.
One of the drama conventions in films are happy endings. At first I was thinking of not following this convention, but I decided that making it a happy ending would portray the idea that even in the darkest of times, people can get through anything.
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