I have finally thought of an idea for the storyline of my film.
My story will focus on the life of a young 19 year old man named Oliver who has been out of school for 3 years, and has lost all ambition. Since leaving school and home at the age of 16 he has been traveling around the country staying in empty houses who's owners are away or on holiday as he did not get on with any of his family. Oliver's life is a mystery to the audience and all he is seen to have is a bag of belongings and a wallet in his pocket. The story follows him traveling from his home in a small village in Norfolk to Edinburgh where he is planning to stay with a cousin. He hitch hikes across england and it seems that he will make it. But halfway there he catches a lift with a eccentric twenty year old french man named Berlioz who invites Oliver to a party he is going to that night. Oliver accepts and attends the party that night. After waking up the next morning, Oliver, Berlioz, Luke and Amy (two people he met at the party) have to make a run for it after Berlioz up sets a gang member. The film than follows the four lost youngsters trying to make it to Edinburgh with Oliver, and Oliver realizes that hitching is a lot harder when there is four of them. Along the way Berlioz gets the group in lots of different trouble much to the annoyance of Oliver and Luke who are getting very close. In the climax of the film the police are called as the group are found breaking into a house, in the panic Berlioz kills Luke and runs away. Heartbroken Oliver tries to run after Berlioz but Amy stops him. The last scene of the film see's Amy and Oliver living together in Edinburgh trying to make money. The film ends on a sand note due to Olivers sadness at the death of Luke. But the film also has a coming-of-age theme, as Oliver has changed so much over his travels.
The narrative of the two minute opening has been planned in much more detail.
The opening will focus only on the character of Oliver. The opening will start with him waking up on the sofa in a sleeping bag. He than gets up changes clothes, and stuffs all his stuff in a bag. The audience will than see him make breakfast- he will look quite lost in the house as if he doesn't know where things are. He will than look at the calendar and there will be a close up on a date with a note saying 'back from Spain today'. The viewers will than see him clamber out one of the windows and leave the house. The end of the opening will be him walking along a road waving at cars. Until one finally pick him up. I have decided to leave the driver of the car (who has no part in the story) unknown, as in my opinion the opening should only focus on oliver and no one else. The last shot of the opening will be Oliver getting out of the car at a garage and waving bye. Here the music will stop.
