Important Characteristics

Building the important character's personality and life history is important in building the story. The main character, Andrea, is a hispanic young teenager who lives with her mother and her father in Arniston, Arizona. Andrea had a hard time adjusting to her new life, but her parents were very supportive their first year there. Andrea met Evan, the school's football team captain, their freshman year of high school in biology class and have been friends ever since.
Albany is Andrea's bully. Albany has had a huge crush on Evan ever since she saw him at the football game freshman year, but has never had the chance to be with him since she, and all of the school, knows that Evan is in love with Andrea. Albany has always been jealous of Andrea because she has everything Albany ever wanted, a loving family with a mother and a father, a best friend who could be a great future husband, so Albany decides to transform her jealousy into anger, believing her anger could somehow relieve her of her own pain.

web-ly thinking

I have been focusing on the details of the film I want to produce. Although, I do not have a movie title set yet, the movie will concentrate on bringing awareness to suicide from bullying. A 16 year-old girl will make a decision that will bring tragedy into her family's life, due to kids from her school constantly hurting her. The movie will reveal the death of the young girl and will transition to show the audience why it is she makes the decision she does.
I have been focusing on the lighting and some mise-en-scene for both the scenes. I decided to create the first scene in a dark lighting bedroom where the young girl will be writing her goodbye letters for her loved ones. I decided on the dark lighting and slow music because the scene has to make the audience feel what the young girl is feeling. For the second scene, I decided on yellow-colored clothing for the bully because yellow represents madness and insecurity, while the young girl will be wearing blue-colored clothing because blue represents melancholy and isolation.

Movie-thinking in the process

I want to create a movie highlighting the fact that words can hurt as much as bullets from a gun. Very few people understand the effects that words can have on people, but others choose to ignore how powerful words can be. Bullying and cyberbullying causes many deaths per year, people suffering and thinking they are not worth living or loving end their lives due to the words that consumed their every day lives. Just as a gun is dangerous depending on the person holding it, words can be dangerous depending on the person saying them.

Bullying and Suicide

According to my research, and personal experience, bullying affects a person in a very negative way, most of the time leading us to feel unworthy of being alive.
Bullying is aggressive behavior repeated over time, and it includes threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or emotionally, or even excluding someone purposely. Bullying can have serious and lasting effects negatively affecting the mental health and overall well-being of the youths involved, some effects being depression, anxiety, involvement in sexual or physical abuse, substance abuse, poor social functioning, and poor school performances including lower GPA averages, standardized test scores, and poor attendance. Bullying, along with the negative effects it includes, can also cause youths to have suicidal tendencies and thoughts.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14% of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7% have attempted it. Ten to fourteen old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to a study done in Britain.

Doppleganger-like movies

The movie Wonder is a family drama about a ten year old boy with Treachers Syndrome (a rare facial deformity), who struggles with fitting in with society. This would be a good example of a drama because it conveys societal ills such as prejudice towards appearances and overcoming the conventional norm of life. The movie portrays a boy who is enrolled in 5th grade, after being home-schooled. He encountered other kids staring at him which he overcame by discovering who he is.

The movie Cyberbully is a drama film about a teenager who deals with cyberbullying and tries to take her life. This film is a good example of a drama because it conveys a message about mental illness and how it affects relationships as well as the individuals. The movie portrays a teenager who attempts suicide and her mom takes on the school system and the state legislation to prevent other teenagers to go through what her daughter went through. The young girl becomes mentally stronger from the cyberbullying and her mom inspired the state legislation to pass a bill criminalizing cyberbullying, which is later signed into a law in honor to the victims of cyberbullying.

Drama-filled life

In everyone's day to day life, they encounter bits of drama every now and then. Drama represents human beings at their best, their worst and everything in-between. Drama productions are serious stories that portray characters dealing with conflicts with themselves, others, or natural forces. Drama is the largest film genre because it includes crime films, courtroom dramas, melodramas, historical dramas, biographical dramas, romantic genres, and more, that allow the dramatic genre to be more than just black and white.

Drama productions may highlight issues that have/are/may affect people such as societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial prejudice, religious intolerance (such as antisemitism), drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women, etc.

 Mental illness dramatic films: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975): about a rebellious institutional patient who feigned insanity but ultimately was squashed by Nurse Ratched and the repressive system. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977): about a teenager who felt suicidal tendencies due to schizophrenia. Silver Linings Playbook (2012): about a man who left a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.