A girl is shown leaving the hospital and walking alone, hearing voices in her head. She tries to commit suicide but is stopped by a stranger. The story then flashes back to how she ended up in this situation - she has been dealing with mental health issues and the voices in her head feel like her only friends. She wants to commit suicide to escape her life and the judgment of others. The film would explore her struggle with mental illness through an unconventional narrative with both flashbacks and her current point of view.

1. Assignment 18:
Idea Exploration
Judy Ibelgauptiene
Katia Martins
Leticia Silva
Noor Naoum

2. Idea Exploration

3. Idea In 10 Bullet Points
Forever Hearing Voices
• The main character is a young girl who lives with her parents who
wants to divorce.
• Girl is shown leaving hospital.
• Her silent point of view in life shown.
• And then her on her way to see her psychiatrist.
• But she doesn't’t turn up.
• You see her by the canal with voices talking to her.
• She tries to commit suicide.
• But then she is stopped by a stranger.
• She runs away crying.
• She returns home and locks herself in her room.
• A flashback begins of how it happened.

4. Idea Details
I got inspiration from the following films :
A Beautiful Mind
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
I got inspiration from the following opening sequences:
Inner Evil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLsiGGF9DPc
See You On The Other Side - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgskFJut58o
Basic story:
A girl becomes death because of an accident however she doesn't’t live in complete silence as the voices fill her head with sound. Her parents hate each
other but stay together for her. She hates being seen as a crazy person, and the doctors can’t find anything wrong with her. She wants to commit suicide
because she's tired of her life, and the judgment. The voices feel like her only friends.
This story is suitable for my subgenre (psychological) because it is about a girl with a mental disorder who can hear voices.
The characters are the death girl who is represented as small, weak and crazy but her voices are represented as demanding, pushy and scary. Her mum and
dad are represented as caring but argumentative amongst themselves. And the stranger is represented as kind, a hero and a important person. Her
psychiatrist is represented as caring and loving, and wants to do nothing but help.
The conventions I applied are there are flashbacks and the film doesn’t follow a linear narrative. Also the person is mentally unstable as she hears voice. She
is seen as weak and crazy. It also involves the characters past and this is a common trait within psychological films. It also has drama conventions as it is
about family and life problems.
The locations for this idea would be filmed in a house/flat, the streets and by the canal.
The narrative structure would be unconventional because their would be flashbacks to when the girl was not death and how she became death. It would
contain both implicit and explicit things.
The enigma for the audience is how did she become death as this is not explained in the opening sequence, and if she can be cured or will the voices help
her kill herself.
The target audience would be teenagers and adults worldwide or anyone who loves psychological dramas.

5. Katia Martins – Idea Exploration

6. Katia Martins-idea in bullet points
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The beginning is a mother going through old pictures
Then it is a flashback of her daughters suicidal scene
And then the mother opening a letter
Then her ripping the letter (crying)
Then her denying it to her husband
Then her running out the house screaming and crying
And then her being taken back home by her husband
Then this her husband holding her hand
And then another flashback of her daughter
Ends with the mother staring at her husbands gun

7. Katia Martins-Idea Details
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I got inspiration from the following films: Memento
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I got inspiration from the following film opening sequences:
I Can Hear You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4fGeGo3tig
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Basic story: a mother has a flashback from her daughter committing suicide whilst she is going through photographs, and
the same time she opens a letter from her doctor which says that she is depressed, she does not except the help from her
husband or doctor and ends up in a bad situation. When she is at home she's also thinking about committing suicide. As her
husband is a policeman he has a gun therefore that could be a weapon she would use.
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This story is suitable for my subgenre because its about a character that has flashbacks of her daughters suicide which
causes her to want to do the same thing as she feels guilt and grief.
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The characters are the wife/mother which is a lawyer and the husband/father is a police officer they are represented as
formal upper class people.
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The convention I applied are flashbacks, as psychological films usually contain flashbacks. Also people wearing uniform are
usually involved in psychological films.
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The locations for this idea would be filmed mostly at home and in the suicide scene.
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The narrative structure would be non-linear this is because the mother has flashbacks in order to remember her daughter.
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The enigma for the audience is would a mother be able to kill herself just to “reunite” herself with her daughter and escape
from reality that her daughter is no longer present in her life.
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The target audience for this idea would be teenagers and adults worldwide because everyone can connect to having loss
someone that they cherished.

8. Mind map for idea

9. Idea in 10 pullet points
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She has a dream that she was being
violently attacked just like a few months ago by
2 girls that she did not necessarily like.
She wakes up in a fright and then takes deep breathes and goes back to sleep and
wakes up in the morning.
Goes to get dressed and put make up on and everything.
Goes downstairs to eat breakfast and has a flash back of the nightmare she had
and snaps out of it.
Calls a friend over and explains everything that she has been dreaming.
They go to study for a bit and then her friend says she has to go to the toilet
She continues to study and has these voices in her head telling her that they are
going to come get her.
She starts to panic and then tries to calm herself back down when realising its just
her head acting up.
her’ friend calls her downstairs and she goes downstairs only to find out that her
friend back stabbed her and the girls are in her house and they go to attack her.
She is all bruised up and there is a close up of her angry face staring at the camera
and she hears voices telling her to get the knife and get them and she slowly grabs
a knife when they are not looking as she says ‘hey!!’ they turn around and she says
‘what goes around comes around’ and it finishes .

10. Idea Details
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I got inspiration from the film: The black swan
I got inspiration from the following opening sequence: The Follower :
http://youtu.be/w8TvDJNhjOQ I liked the fact that it captures the way that an unwanted
person can be there psychologically and the fact that it has that moment when he appears
out of nowhere when she was least expecting it and that’s what I wanted to put in my
opening sequence.
Basic Story: the girl has been bullied by 2 girls before and only to find out that her own friend
wants to bring harm to her and is friends with them. She attacked but somehow manages to
pick herself up.
This story is suitable for my subgenre because what she is going through is dramatic and all
the voices that she hears in her head or all in her mind indicating to the subgenre
psychological drama.
The characters are : Caroline ( the main girl who uses the idea of a vulnerable girl to gain
strength and her psychological problems help her and torment her a reinforced and a
challenged stereotype ). Roxaine ( Caroline’s close friend that backstabs her she is
represented in a negative way) Lucy and Jane ( the two bullies who are reinforced
stereotypes).
The conventions i applied are that she is being controlled and scared by the voices in her
head and the fact that she is being bullied.
The locations for this film will be filmed at someone’s house and outside for the flashback
scene.
the narrative structure would be unconventional, non-linear and implicit.
The enigma for the audience is that they don’t know what will happen at the end.
The target audience for this would be a mass audience.

11. Noor Naoum- Idea exploration

12. Girl visits psychiatrist
•Girl meets guy
•They become friends
•They get together
•2 months later he dies in a car accident
•Girl suffers from depression and anxiety
•Girl starts to seem him psychologically
•Girl tries to move on by meeting a new guy and getting married
•She still sees her boyfriend that passed away following her
everywhere
•He starts to talk to her psychologically
•Guilt also haunts her
•Girl can no longer take what's happening
•About to take pills.

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I got inspiration from the following film:
The Vow
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Basic story: Chloe meets Ryan while she is sitting on the bench in the park. Ryan asks her some questions and she also asks him. A
month later they decide to get together and Chloe moves in with him al happy and excited. 2 months later Chloe receives a call that
Ryan passed away in a major car accident. Chloe starts to gradually build on depression and anxiety. Chloe starts to see Ryan
everywhere she turned, haunting her thoughts. After a year Chloe is married to Alex and tries to move on and forget about Ryan. Things
got worse because every time she tries to sleep she sees him and he talks to her. Chloe can no longer take it and decides to take the
pills. She's about to take the pills.
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The story is suitable for my subgenre because she starts to emotionally breakdown and also sees things psychologically.
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The characters are a young female called Chloe, a young man called Ryan and a middle aged man called Alex. Chloe is represented as
vulnerable and fearful, Alex is presented as a regular ordinary guy who supports Chloe, Ryan is a strong young man who ends up being
the weak character.
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The conventions I applied are:
Being traumatised
Taking the pills
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The locations for this idea would be filmed at:
Park
Bedroom
House
Oxford street
Balcony
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Narrative structure: would be linear. The storyline is explicit because we know what is happening throughout the story. At the end when she's
about to take the pills the storyline becomes implicit because she doesn't take the pills, she's about to take the pills which creates enigma for
the audience. This allows us to wonder whether she takes the pills and what is going to happen to her.
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The target audience for this idea would be adults and young adults because they can relate to something realistic .