Scenes in our film and how it would run

After the opening, the film is going to be told mainly in the form of flashbacks and flash forwards - very little of the film is going to be set in the present, apart from occasional scenes showing her being bullied in school. Below is a selection of hypothetical scenes which would be important if we were to make the entire film and not just the opening, which should give an idea of how the film is going to run overall.

 

Facebook Scene

 

A few days after Rebecca uploads the retaliation video called "Back At Ya", she attracts even more hatred around the school, meaning that her video backfired and ended up making her the target of even more abuse. This then cuts to a shot of her scrolling through multiple Facebook messages, all of which contain expletives to insult her. She then begins to type out a status update which resembles a suicide note - to show that even in death she is still dominated by the digital age. However, she falls asleep before she can post it, leading to her dream which is a flashback of a time when she was still friends with Rachael.

 

Family Scene

 

The extended cast would be involved in this scene, because we will include members of her family in order to show her dynamic when she is around a different group of people - it will make the later scenes where she manages to get back at her bullies more effective.

 

Final Scene

 

This is set in school, when a vicious rumour circulates through the school that Rachael was caught sleeping with Angel's boyfriend. This leads for the majority of people to fall out with her, leading to a changing opinion about Rebecca in the eyes of the students, meaning that she has got back at her bullies, by purpose or not.

 

Organising some of the most important scenes in order to work out a rough idea of how the film will run is incredibly important in the production of our film opening, because it will ensure that we know the things which will need to be in our opening in order for the rest of the film to be a cohesive product which makes sense to the audience.

By George Martin