Film Opening: Planning

The short film will open up with opening credits, these credits will be displayed on various colorful flower vases and a hand will push them off a window sill, breaking them to just place them with another one. (We're going for cute and quirky)

Opening credit will include: 

Directors/Script Writers: Josefina Coll and Megan Muralles 

Actors: Tess Rowland (as Katirina aka Kat) & MALE TBA as (Wes) 

Once the opening credit have ended the short film will begin, an establishing short of Kat in a dark lit room strumming a sad melody on her guitar, with the radio playing, her laptop will be on (probably on social media  -> twitter or tumblr etc.)  Kat will repeatedly check her phone and find no new messages, she will be disappointed by this. After a few minutes (seconds in movie time) the door bell ring, and she finds a bouquet of flowers, she is overcome by a rush of happiness and as she's reaching down her long sleeve shirt moves up releasing a large bruise she quickly pulls the sleeve down, embarrassing and looks around to make sure no one saw it. She reads the note out loud and smiles to herself. She adds the flowers to the vase with water and walks to a window, where there already is a vases with flowers but the flowers are DEAD!  This will show that this has been done before. Kat doesn't seem to notice/ make a connection. She goes to her room happily and starts to listen to a happy song (Unlike before).


We could maybe incorporate quick flashes of Kat and her boyfriend fighting (black and white/ or just dark dark lighting) while she is in her room and include the part that he hits/pushes her juxtaposed with the doorbell, the door bell will literally interrupt her train of thought while simultaneously-  fugitively transition the to the next phase of the cycle of abuse: the honeymoon phase.


Background "love" story of Kat and Wes
Kat and Wes have known each other since 7th grade;  Kat has always fantasized about Wes and how maybe when they were old enough they could be together. Unlike Kat, Wes knew that 'fate' would bring them together, because, being that they were so close, it was bound to happen sooner then later. When they graduated 8th grade, Kat confessed that she use to have feelings for Wes when they were younger, and Wes laughed and told her he had to. They parted ways during the summer, only for Wes to return from a summer scholar program and find out that Kat had a boyfriend. Throughout Kat's relationship with Timothy (Timmy), Wes grew protective and very jealous, basically stalking their every move, he started lashing out at friends who liked Timmy. After a few months had passed, Wes found out that Timmy had cheated on Kat during spring break, and he saw this as an opportunity to keep Kat for herself. (This is a sign of early psychotic behavior, one doesn't keep a person, they can be together, but one may not possess another person.) This was one thing that Wes does not comprehend. Once they were together, Wes would not leave Kat out of her sight, she slowly stopped going out with friends to parties, to barely talking to anyone but Wes and her family (although she is rather aloof with them too). Wes on the other hand, was free to go where ever he liked, whenever he liked because he was the 'dominant' in the relationship and Kat was a lost puppy in need of his guidance. Kat was a strong, charismatic, funny, smart and outgoing girl; until she got together with Wes. Kat was now an aloof girl, who was immensely dependent on Wes, and only Wes.

The background story will help us think of things that the characters would say in the script. We have already started writing the script.