3. BLURB
It may be hard to admit to someone that you think that you might be bipolar, but it’s even harder to
admit it to yourself. As Kayla receive a break-up text from her boyfriend she spirals out of control
and decides to commit suicide, but will she do it.
CHARACTER BIOGRAPHIES
Kayla was born and raised in the United Kingdom, by a wealthy and loving family, but when she
turned eleven years old things took a turn for the worst, as her father lost his business due to
bankruptcy and illegal scheming he decided to commit suicide, and when her mother decided to stop
him, he ended up kill her, Penny Kayla's older sister) and then himself. From the age of eleven,
Kayla found her life change drastically as she had lost both her parents she loved dearly and forced
to move into an orphanage, where she was bullied and abused by the other children. Kayla attitude
to life started to change as well, she decided that being a good girl was getting her no were, she lost
her faith and changed all of her believe for the worst as she started getting in trouble with the police,
sleeping around and befriending local yobs.
STATEMENT OF INTENT
The main subject of the story is mental illness. I will show this by using only one actor in a
dramatic realisation of her insanity, I think that I am the best person to write this story line
because I am familiar with a person who suffers from the same mental illness, so I know a lot about
it factually and personally.
STORY LINE
In the beginning of the story we see a flashback of a girl Running in a traumatic state, but we have no
idea how she got to that sate, the story then rewinds to her in a classroom receiving a text
message from her boyfriend say 'were over', she becomes unormally upset and over traumatic (due
to her mental condition), she runs to the bathroom, where she attempts to pull herself together, but
ends up in a more emotional state, she then runs into the woods where she commits suicide twice,
once by taking pill and when that fails, she throws herself over the edge or a cliff.
13. Props
This is the prop used as pills Books and pencil cases are carried and used by
in the suicide scene. Kayla through the first sequence of the short film
14. Locations
All these locations are chosen as there obvious and recognisable college locations, and would
be obvious to the audience
16. Floor plan for the
classroom, that the
classroom scene
will be shot in
Floor plan for the
Rother field toilets,
that the toilet
scene will be shot
in
18. Over, My Dead Body
Opening Sequence:
POV footage of Kayla’s Journey to college with voice over,
Narration- Kayla
‘Five hours before the end of my life, I had just started the beginning, but I guess that’s the problem with
life, it goes by too fast. And just when it all starts getting moral, it all falls down’.
Shot of Kayla Running in slow motion:
Narration- Kayla
My name is Kayla I am one of the reported 276,000 teenagers who attempt suicide a year, but I am one of
the few who succeeded, and this is my story.
Reminiscing sequence:
Voices playing in Kayla’s mid as she runs
Kayla –
I love you so much Jason, I can never leave you.
Jason-
And I will never give you a reason to.
Jason-
Promise you’ll marry me one day and no else in the world will matter.
Kayla-
I promise with all my heat
Kayla-
You’re the only guy who has ever loved me despite everything about me.
I don’t want to die, I scared, but I guess that was the only way I could do it, though fear. But then again I
could be completely wrong, it might not be fear that killed me, it could have been courage, the kind of
courage that comes from a dangerous place. Jason might be the cause of my death, but I can’t hold it against
him, he should continue to be free and full of live, (sigh) only over my dead body .
