Theme: Despair
Genre: Drama
Narrative: The story opens with a girl dressed in black clothes, she is sitting on a bed in a room, staring at the floor. It is quite evident that she is getting ready to go to a funeral. She begins to walk up and down in her room and begins to get bored and opens up the drawer, as she is looking through the drawer she spots a journal, and begins to read it, she skims through the first through pages and goes to an entry talking about her and her sister. This entry talks about the present the sister got for her birthday from her.
This then leads to a flashback of the time, the sister gave her sister her necklace for her birthday. Constantly throughout the rest of the film we are shown precious moments between the two sisters, the girl reaches a more recent entry of when the sister and her fought, just before her death. In the entry the sister is complaining about how she hated her sister for what happened and this puts the girl back in a mood of despair again, as she feels that the situation can never be reconciled. In rage she throws down the journal and it lands on the last journal entry, the girl goes to read it and the sister is saying sorry in it and gives her a sense of hope in the entry.
The girl is finally able to accept the death of her sister and feels reconciled. In the last shot she is seen leaving her room, and closing the door behind her.
The reason why we changed the friend to the sister, is because we felt it would have more of an emotional impact on the audience. The majority of the audience should have siblings, so straight away they have something to relate to and to put the main character in the situation of the death of her sibling, automatically makes the audience feel empathetic and attached to her as they begin to imagine themselves in the same situation.
We decided on the girl also to wear black formal clothes, to hint that she is getting ready to go to a funeral, so the idea of her sisters death, comes out straight away.
We kept the low lit room as it represents the girl's current state of mind and the condition of the room such as it being in a mess can be how she feels physically, with little light coming in to represent a dim sense of hope within her.
Instead of objects, we decided to just keep the journal and have the girl flick through the entries of different moments herself and her sister shared. Some objects such as the teddy bear and necklace would be kept for in the flashbacks, as things the sisters exchanged between themselves.
The final shot of her leaving the room and closing the door, represents a closure within herself and that she is finally leaving that state of mind and accepting the situation.
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