If this Giant Must Walk: A Manifesto for a New Nigeria
Group initial ideas for film - Jushna
1. Group Initial ideas for film:
Title:(Unknown)
Genre: Crime/Mystery/Drama/Psychological Thriller
Theme: Revenge/Hatred/Anger/Envy/Jealousy
Film plot/synopsis:
In the beginning/opening scene there's an art exhibition, where the audience see all the
paintings etc. We see the main protagonist presenting and talking about her art piece.
We are then taken to a different location, where we see the main protagonist painting on
the canvas in her art room. However, we see what type of paintings she's painting, which
are paintings of disturbing death scenes as this is what she imagines and she likes to paint
them to get them out of her head in her spare time.
She starts to recognize when watching the news that the murders that have been taken
place are similar/ replicates of her paintings, that she paints during her own time. We see
her researching in depth of all the recent murders and see if they link in with her paintings.
This is when she realises that whenever she paints a disturbing painting, her actual paintings
take place in real life.
After she goes to tell the police what she thinks that has happened about these murders but
no one really believes her except for one detective who gives her the chance to explain,
they both try to investigate whether if whatever she paints just comes to life naturally or if it
is a murderer who has seen her paintings and try to recreate the paintings in real life and
make it look like she's the murderer of all those victims.
Both her and the detective find out, that it is someone (antagonist) recreating the death
paintings in real life, they both catch the antagonist before he goes to his next victim. They
find out why he did it, he was trying to take revenge on the protagonist for her success in
her career as generally he was jealous/envied her a lot.
The antagonist gets sentenced for life in jail for all the murders and the protagonist
continues her life as an artist and tries to move on from the past, furthermore we see her
finally in another art exhibition where she is very famous for her paintings and she is also in
relationship with the detective.
Feasibility:
Settings: Art Room, Victim's Houses, Murderer House, Police Station/Office
2. Locations: Haverstock School class room (For the Police office), Haverstock School Art
Room, Mahima Miah's House and Jushna Begum's House
Actors/Actress: Jushna Begum, Mahima Miah, Other male/female actors to play extra parts
Equipment: Camera, Tripod, Dolly, Studio Lights
Props: Knife, Fake Blood, Acrylic Paint (Red paint), Canvas, Paint Brushes, Water pot for
brushes, Speakers for the music etc