2. TitleThe reason we’ve gone with Adam because felt that
the focus of the short film is the child suffering
from the mental illness.
We purposely chose not to include anxiety in the
title or tagline as we didn’t want to give away the
key narrative in the title of the film.
We used the tagline of “Can you hear them too”
because we wanted something that was vague but also
implied the person suffers with some sort of issue.
The vagueness of the tagline makes people want to
find out what the voices are and thus gets people
interested in our film. The tagline plays an
important role in the narrative also.
4. Anxiety Research
• Social Anxiety is defined as the intense fear of
what others think about you and the constant
feeling of being watched and judged.
• The impaired ability to function in at least some
parts of daily life.
• Extreme distress over everyday activities such as
reading in class, eating in public or speaking
to others.
• Difficult to determine the difference between
social anxiety and basic shyness.
• Automatic negative thoughts followed by “What
Ifs” will lead to avoidance of the social
situation all together.
• Can lead to problems with education, depression,
eating disorders, substance abuse and even
suicidal ideation.
6. Characters
• The main character (Adam) is a
young teenage male, roughly 15/16
in his later years at school. We
chose to have a character this age
as we feel that is an experience
we can both relate to and the best
writers write what they know. The
boy struggles with social anxiety
meaning day-to-day tasks become
difficult. We will demonstrate his
social anxiety by using voices in
his head that argue with one
another and put doubts in his mind
which causes the anxiety.
• The focus will be on his anxiety
mostly as the main narrative
technique.
7. • Extra 1- The other character is only
minor, as we want to focus on Adam.
She will be a motherly figure to him
that comforts him and calms his social
anxiety. This could be to fill the
void of a parental figure in his life
and add further to the narrative.
Depending on location she could be a
waitress, shopkeeper or teacher.
9. Style & Form
• Documentary/ Drama that uses voiceovers
and sound bridges as the main narrative
technique.
• It will be a serious film given the
subject matter as we have taken
inspiration from various other genres
and specific films.
10. Contingency plan
• Originally, me and greg researched
into doing a documentary on a
band/artist so this would be our
backup plan. However, this would
take much more planning and it would
be hard to tell a compelling story
through the documentary style.
11. Costs
• Our film will very low cost,
travelling would not be an issue as
Greg can drive. We will rent out the
equipment for free from the hatch at
college. The only main costs may be
food and drink on the day of
filming.
• Expenses will potentially need to be
paid for our actors.
12. PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
MeMe and
Me and Greg have
discussed how to evenly
distribute work between
us, given how we
researched each genre
separately. This is why
during the production I
will be taking a focus on
editing while Greg will
be the lead on
cinematography and
directing the filming.
