Preliminary Layout

Preliminary layout 

Portfolio Project 

Luca Patarini Jonah Seldin-Schneider, Alec Miller 

 

 

Title: The Trip 


Setting/s: High school courtyard/sidewalk leaving the school, Kitchen of trashy home, Forest.


Character/s: Zach (Main Character). Zach's Friends. Zach’s Dealer. Zach's Father


Action/s: Zach is leaving a high school of about 2000 kids with a group of un-named friends, he then turns away onto a road to walk the rest of the way by himself in a short clip. It then cuts to him coming home to a dark and empty house with bottles scattered everywhere, and his groggy dad sleeping on the couch. When asked to get a beer he says “no” it then cuts to a clip of the outside of the house with muffled screams on the inside. Cutting back to Zach in the room holding a picture of his mom he scurries to his closet to reveal a blunt. Then cuts towards him walking into the forest, lighting it, and beginning to smoke the blunt. He then gets up begins to feel hazy and falls flat. on his face fading the screen to black. He then wakes up on a bridge and feels tired, but ok. He begins to walk home when he realizes something is following him. We get a quick clip of a shadowy figure moving by the camera behind him then the 2-minute teaser ends. 

Plotline: Zack is a normal kid at school with good grades and plenty of friends. Zach seems like just an ordinary teenager. What nobody knows is that Zach has an abusive father at home. In addition, his mother passed away which adds to the fathers’ and Zacks’ actions of alcohol and drug, abuse. Zach regularly smokes, but It didn’t go as planned one day and he goes through trips and PTSD attacks about his mother and father. After finally thinking he has escaped the trip, it is shown that Zach had over dosed and is dead on a forest floor.   

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