DRAMA PROJECT

We've been assigned to create a drama piece, consisting of no more than 3 characters, and this time 6 members.. so we've produced a synopsis for our piece we're going to create.

Drama Assignment Plotline

START:

·      Daughter lying on floor in tears camera tracking out on top of character her eyeline follows father as he stands there for a few secs then walks out of door (audible click) and cuts to flashback.

·      A single wide static shot in living room of dad showing all different emotions of bipolar depression: Angry-ecstatic, happy-sad. (Dancing on his own happily and then dancing the waltz sadly with his wife as she fades away. Cutting from jumping up and down in the air to curled in a ball

·      Tracking left to right or right to left looking at pictures of family happy. Tracks over to father in bedroom taking pills looking extremely warn out and sad.

·      Scene of father who has made dinner for daughter sitting at table as daughter walks in- He is ecstatic, very happy but taking pills. Daughter sits at table with a fake smile asking how he is feeling stressing about how he is.

·      Scene of father in car time-lapse as it becomes dark.

·      Scene next day- daughter walking into house and dad is sat smoking with dinner on table- she walks in says hi and he looks up angry and starts argument questioning ‘where have you been?’ very over the top. She tells him to calm down and to take his pills- he hits the pills from her hand and blames her for her mother’s death whilst pushing her to the floor.

·      He stands there for a second looking slightly shocked and guilty- he walks out of the house and we see the daughter lying there putting her hands over her face and crying.

·      Cuts to the father walking up to the side of a bridge standing at the edge and lighting a fag, he bursts into tears.

·      His mobile rings and he answers it, his daughter sobbing says please come home dad.

·      He replies I’m sorry for everything that has happened and hangs up the phone.

·      He takes out his wallet looking at a photo of his wife and daughter and still sobbing flicks his cigarette over the bridge and steps up to the edge of it looking down. After a few seconds he looks up slowly to the camera.

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The basic plotline for our drama piece features a father and a daughter, and their relationship with one another that is strained by the father's bi-polar disorder. The mother, who died at some point in the past, is still a part of their life.

We aim to portray various sides to the father's conditions, from one extreme to another.. the mood or impact on the audience what we're aiming for, is one of sorrow and remorse. We want to create a piece that is poignant, moving and emotional.