The document outlines a 5 minute drama film project focusing on a teenage girl named Kayla who spirals out of control after receiving a breakup text from her boyfriend, leading her to attempt suicide. It includes character biographies, a storyline, production schedule, and other pre-production materials. The goal is to realistically portray Kayla's mental illness and suicidal thoughts through dramatic scenes depicting her deterioration after the breakup.

1. 5 Minuet Drama Pre-
Production

2. Treatment

3. Blurb This five minute sequence is a dark dull and dramatic film. Reality school girl
situations taken to the extreme. Full of Intense and moving moments we can all
relate to.
Character biographies Main character, charlotte will be playing ‘Kayla’
Kayla is like any teenage school girl, very independent and enjoys having people
around her especially the ones she loves the most, her boyfriend.
Charlotte is portraying a 17 year old girl who’s heart gets broken by the one she
thought most of.
Slightly unsociable and over exaggerates every decision she should have to making
the consequences terrifying at risk and daring.
Extra, played by Phele.
Phele plays an extra during this five minute system. He is not an important
character at all. He is categorized as a ‘lad’ and is short tempered when ‘kayla’
bumps into him on purpose. We do not see a lot of him
Storyline Young teenage gets a text in class from her (ex) boyfriend. ‘we’re over’ she over
reacts and leaves the class in hysterics. She’s angry frustrated and heart broken.
She runs away from college grounds and overdoses on drugs. She wakes up hours
later and then decides she wants to kill herself from all the hallucinations. She
jumps off a cliff onto bricks and broken glass.

4. BLURB
It may be hard to admit to someone that you think that you might be bipolar, but it’s even harder to
admit it to yourself. As Kayla receive a break-up text from her boyfriend she spirals out of control
and decides to commit suicide, but will she do it.
CHARACTER BIOGRAPHIES
Kayla was born and raised in the United Kingdom, by a wealthy and loving family, but when she
turned eleven years old things took a turn for the worst, as her father lost his business due to
bankruptcy and illegal scheming he decided to commit suicide, and when her mother decided to stop
him, he ended up kill her, Penny Kayla's older sister) and then himself. From the age of eleven,
Kayla found her life change drastically as she had lost both her parents she loved dearly and forced
to move into an orphanage, where she was bullied and abused by the other children. Kayla attitude
to life started to change as well, she decided that being a good girl was getting her no were, she lost
her faith and changed all of her believe for the worst as she started getting in trouble with the police,
sleeping around and befriending local yobs.
STATEMENT OF INTENT
The main subject of the story is mental illness. I will show this by using only one actor in a
dramatic realisation of her insanity, I think that I am the best person to write this story line
because I am familiar with a person who suffers from the same mental illness, so I know a lot
about it factually and personally.
STORY LINE
In the beginning of the story we see a flashback of a girl Running in a traumatic state, but we have
no idea how she got to that sate, the story then rewinds to her in a classroom receiving a text
message from her boyfriend say 'were over', she becomes unormally upset and over traumatic
(due to her mental condition), she runs to the bathroom, where she attempts to pull herself
together, but ends up in a more emotional state, she then runs into the woods where she commits
suicide twice, once by taking pill and when that fails, she throws herself over the edge or a cliff.

5. Storyboard

6. Sequence 1:

7. Sequence 2:

8. Sequence 3:

9. Sequence 4:

10. Film Schedule

12. Photographs Of
costumes/props/locations

13. Costumes
KAYLA COSTUME-
This choice of costume is chosen to fit the stereotype of a modern day teenage girl’s
wardrobe

14. Props
This is the prop used as pills Books and pencil cases are carried and used by
in the suicide scene. Kayla through the first sequence of the short film

15. Locations
All these locations are chosen as there obvious and recognisable college locations, and would
be obvious to the audience

16. Floor/Location Plan

17. Floor plan for the
classroom, that the
classroom scene
will be shot in
Floor plan for the
Rother field toilets,
that the toilet
scene will be shot
in

18. Script

19. Over, My Dead Body
Opening Sequence:
POV footage of Kayla’s Journey to college with voice over,
Narration- Kayla
‘Five hours before the end of my life, I had just started the beginning, but I guess that’s the problem with
life, it goes by too fast. And just when it all starts getting moral, it all falls down’.
Shot of Kayla Running in slow motion:
Narration- Kayla
My name is Kayla I am one of the reported 276,000 teenagers who attempt suicide a year, but I am one of
the few who succeeded, and this is my story.
Reminiscing sequence:
Voices playing in Kayla’s mid as she runs
Kayla –
I love you so much Jason, I can never leave you.
Jason-
And I will never give you a reason to.
Jason-
Promise you’ll marry me one day and no else in the world will matter.
Kayla-
I promise with all my heat
Kayla-
You’re the only guy who has ever loved me despite everything about me.
I don’t want to die, I scared, but I guess that was the only way I could do it, though fear. But then again I
could be completely wrong, it might not be fear that killed me, it could have been courage, the kind of
courage that comes from a dangerous place. Jason might be the cause of my death, but I can’t hold it against
him, he should continue to be free and full of live, (sigh) only over my dead body .

20. Call sheet

21. DATES:
PROD.#: PRODUCTION TITLE:
DIRECTOR: PRODUCER:
CHARACTER NAME NAME CONTACT NUMBER
Kayla Charlotte Hollis 0778646****
Paul Phele 0776840****
Chris Charlie 0754009****
James Jack 0777152****
Martin matt 078170*****
Annie director / camera man 0787675****

22. Mood board

24. Risk assessment

25. Hazards Who is at risk? Severity of Chance injury Risk Control measures
injury
Falling over Phele , serious likely Medium Wear appropriate clothing and
Standing on sharp objects charlotte and I. footwear
Falling off the chair Camera man Not so serious likely low Make sure no cars/ students are
Disturbing others walking past.
Create space for the chair to roll
and push aside any stones or
twigs that may be in the way.
Tearing of clothing when Myself (camera serious likely high Before filming we will make
climbing over gates to get to man) sure we are aware of anything
tennis course that could possibly fall during
the filming process. But also
clear up anything lying around
so we do not step on them
when filming. Wear appropriate
footwear.
Wear appropriate clothing and
possibly bring case for camera
so it doesn’t get damaged. And
if necessarily bring step ladder
to help.

26. Timetable

27. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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Lesson: (1 hr 25)
Pre-Production
Schedule
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Ideas Research Treatment Filming editing
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Editing Editing Presenting Rough
edits to class.
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Extra footage Editing Editing Pre production
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Pre production Editing
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Draft film on blog