Drama Assignment Original Plotline

This is the original plotline for my drama assignment. We created the story around a broken family. A father with bipolar a mother who has passed away and a daughter who has suffered the worst from the fathers bipolar. This is the same plotline that we created for the pitch in our session on Thursday. We hope this has been a successful idea as this is the idea that we thought is the strongest and want to create a script around. We wanted to capture the highs and lows of the father with bipolar to try and represent a certain tragedy within the family as they deal with the past and try and move to the future. I hope this will be sufficient enough to create as our final piece.

START:

·        Daughter lying on floor in tears camera tracking out on top of character her eyeline follows father as he stands there for a few secs then walks out of door (audible click) and cuts to flashback.

·        A single wide static shot in living room of dad showing all different emotions of bipolar depression: Angry-ecstatic, happy-sad. (Dancing on his own happily and then dancing the waltz sadly with his wife as she fades away. Cutting from jumping up and down in the air to curled in a ball

·        Tracking left to right or right to left looking at pictures of family happy. Tracks over to father in bedroom taking pills looking extremely warn out and sad.

·        Scene of father who has made dinner for daughter sitting at table as daughter walks in- He is ecstatic, very happy but taking pills. Daughter sits at table with a fake smile asking how he is feeling stressing about how he is.

·        Scene of father in car time-lapse as it becomes dark.

·        Scene next day- daughter walking into house and dad is sat smoking with dinner on table- she walks in says hi and he looks up angry and starts argument questioning ‘where have you been?’ very over the top. She tells him to calm down and to take his pills- he hits the pills from her hand and blames her for her mother’s death whilst pushing her to the floor.

·        He stands there for a second looking slightly shocked and guilty- he walks out of the house and we see the daughter lying there putting her hands over her face and crying.

·        Cuts to the father walking up to the side of a bridge standing at the edge and lighting a fag, he bursts into tears.

·        His mobile rings and he answers it, his daughter sobbing says please come home dad.

·        He replies I’m sorry for everything that has happened and hangs up the phone.

·        He takes out his wallet looking at a photo of his wife and daughter and still sobbing flicks his cigarette over the bridge and steps up to the edge of it looking down. After a few seconds he looks up slowly to the camera.

CUTS TO BLACK