Final Outline

Over the weekend, I have been working on my storyline and I have come to a pretty concrete idea. Obviously, I will still be making changes and improving the idea, but this is what I have so far:

·      Woman receives a book in the mail and opens it to the prologue

o   Bird’s eye view: book is laid out on the table and opened

o   Woman is dressed in a robe and is wearing blue eyeshadow

·      Prologue screenshot

·      Mother had recently died; father is depressed and never leaves his room so the daughter is forced to complete all the duties around the house and her mother’s previous jobs

·      Girl wants to escape and have a break; wants to become a normal teenager again

·      She maps a plan of where she wants to go

·      Writes a letter to her father which explains that she’s leaving for a bit and doesn’t know when she will be back but she won’t be gone for long; she leaves a clue to help him find her if he wants to and reveals there is a clue at each location

·      Packs her suitcase and leaves

o   Bird’s eye view of her placing her classic novel on top of her clothes in her suitcase and closing it

o   Use the record player as the suitcase

·      Wears binoculars around her neck throughout the entire journey, looks through them throughout the journey to focus on the destination

·      Follows the map and leaves her clues at each different location

·      Ends up at a creek where she meets a boy who has also run away from home; they hang out and decide to complete the rest of the journey together

o   Creek is the Regatta Water/Coomera Lake – on the fishing edge

·      The father begins to worry about his daughter since he initially thought she was just going to be gone for the day; he disregarded the letter

·      He calls her and she doesn’t answer; he leaves a voicemail asking where she is, if she is safe and to come her; she ignores the message because she is too focused on her journey and the boy

o   Close up of the voicemail notification pop up on her screen which is in her pocket or bag

·      Follows her throughout her journey and also shows her father’s journey trying to find her

o   He is really far behind on the map and is trying to catch up quickly

·      Her dad ends up giving up and going home halfway through because he injured himself in the bush while trying to find her

·      Girl returns home, happier than before, and he is upset as he didn’t know what happed to her; she realises how much she means to him and he understands now what she was going through and decided to change the way he was acting

o   The father explains that he was looking for her then injured himself – this justifies following his journey too (as it is an autobiography written by the girl)

·      Loud sound effect of phone call; transitions back to the older woman at the beginning of the film

·      Picks up the phone and the person on the other end asks how her autobiography turned out/if she is happy with it and she says “yes I’m really pleased with how it turned out”; smiles and hangs up; bird’s eye shot of book and she closes it; screenshot of ‘The End’