script treatment

New script treatment

 Outcast

The film I shall be creating a ‘teaser trailer’ for shall be called ‘Outcast’, due to my protagonist’s condition. The protagonist will be a fatherless seventeen year old boy that is called Jack. However, recently Jack had been diagnosed with Autism, prior to being diagnosed Jack had always been an outcast and never really fit in throughout his time at school.  

Joe grew tired of this by the time he was sixteen and once he had reached the end of year 11 he left education completely, deciding that he’d had enough of being an outcast and struggling in social interaction he tried to change. Before the his final exams in GCSE Jack contemplated suicide as he began to hate life, Jack then started to write a diary about how he felt throughout the day, regarding his feelings and thought on what would happen, he found this helped ease the angry that would build up sometimes. Jack is the perfect social realist character as he is the hegemonic, working class teenager who has been troubled in some form and is now trying to better his life, typical codes and conventions of social realist films have been met, such as the film being shot on a hand held camera, encoding realism within the narrative. The grainy, urban mise-en-scene paired with a de-saturated colour palette shall be within the typical conventions of this genre also.

The film shall be shot in parts of Stockley, Uxbridge, at home and at Stockley Academy. I have decided to set the trailer in these two settings as the settings I have in mind are typical to urban social-realist films, concrete based landscape in which Jack finds normality and tranquillity to write peacefully.