19 C - Proposal

Title of Short Film: 

The School Thieves

Genre 

Crime Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Action 

• Log line 

When a group of school bullies thieves with nothing to lose secretly bring disruption to  a local London shop, a police chief officer, a head teacher, a Research Team must work together quickly to stop  this from happening fast before it causes hunger and starvation to a local area.

Target Audience 

 My target audience for my film is aimed at the ages of around 16. The location for the short film will be based around London

Narrative Overview 

Act 1 ( Brandon's usual behavior -House )

The scene starts as the camera moves towards a small house showing a mother who's name is called Sabrina who works as a police officer. She goes up stairs to wake up her son called Brandon. She then asks Brandon why he didn't attend school yesterday but Brandon doesn't answer her question. He walks outside and goes to school. After this happens, Sabrina gets a call from the police station stating that there have been a lot of robberies in London for the past 24 hours. She was off work that day but had no choice to go to the police station as it was an emergency.

Act 2 ( Brandon's Bullies -School Canteen)

  The scene starts off with Brandon arriving at school to see his headteacher waiting outside the school gate disappointed. The headteacher questions Brandon on why he didn't attend school. Brandon refuses to say why and runs away from him. Mr. Ryan immediately writes an email to Brandon's Mum. Brandon then gets flash backs making the audience finally understands why Brandon was acting usual this entire time.

Act 3 ( Brandon's Revenge Shop Robbery  )

A group of thieves with a character who is part of the group of thieves named Cameron oldest of the group forgets to wear his mask making the group of thieves angry. The group get angry at him. Two of the thieves walk out of the shop with the stolen food supplies from the shop. Secretly a person around their age had reported them to the police without them noticing.

Act 4 ( Police investigation )

Sabrina arrives at the police station entering the building with two police officers. A police officer tells Sabrina that someone called the police station to report a robbery involving three thieves loading supplies into a van. Sabrina gets interrupted by her phone ringtone. She sees it's an email from Brandon's teacher saying that Brandon had once again not gone to school. Sabrina immediately gets police officers to drive to the location straight away.

Act 5 ( Ending )

In the final scene, Sabrina and the officers arrive at the place the robbery is taking place. Sabrina sees her son run up to her. Brandon says that it wasn't his fault that he skipped school. Sabrina tells Brandon it doesn't matter and how she understands everything that is happening. She apologies to her son and they both enter the police car to go home.

All Key characters 

Brandon- Brandon's motive is to get revenge on his bullies that not only punched him in the face but also stole his lunch money and threatened him.

Sabrina- Sabrina's goal is to prevent the robberies that has been taking place in London for the past 24 hours and to figure out why his son Brandon is behaving strangely.

Mr. Ryan-  Mr. Ryan's goal is to make sure that the pupils of his school is always in time for their learning.

Film Treatment 

For my short film I have decided that I will need to add a yellow and blue cinematic look. This is to make sure the short film looks good quality as possible. In order to further, improve the film I will need to make sure that I am including the transitions I have written in my script to make the film more enjoyable to watch. Not only that I will need to also make sure that I am using suitable sound effects when there is a fight scene in my short film. 

Film Purpose

This film spreads awareness of school children that  are getting bullied and them not reporting it to their parents or teachers and are keeping the secret to themselves which could be harmful to their mental health.

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