My Idea - They Lay in a Pool of Blood That Is Not Their Own!

 After 3 weeks of brainstorming with JD and yelling at each other and ripping each other's faces off            (metaphorically), we have come to a final decision about our project. Here's the rundown.

Place yourself in an 80's suburban neighborhood. This narrative, called They Lay in a Pool of Blood That Is Not Their Own! follows a father named Christopher and his daughter, Belle as they navigate through the unexpected loss of the mother, Erica. After the traumatic experience, Belle has gone mute and desperately clings on to anything that attaches her to her mother, whether it be pictures or necklaces. The father has done the opposite. The family has long practiced Christianity and to run away from attachment to his deceased wife, the father has decided to move to remote village in which a Christian cult-like society dominates, after seeing an ad in the newspaper. The mute daughter who refuses to show any passion in Christianity is immediately exiled and excluded upon arrival. This exclusion increases as time moves on, and eventually leads to the daughter developing a hatred and resentment towards Christianity, and burning down the village in which she was raised.

The opening will highlight the last moments of the daughter and father in their longtime home before moving. The excerpt will start with a poem being shown on notebook paper, with eerie, atmospheric nondiegetic sound in the background - in which the last line is: They Lay in a Pool of Blood That Is Not Their Own! A credit sequence will follow over a montage of pictures of the family before the mother's death, with the transition I discussed previously linking the montage to the present moment through a zoom out. The processes of the daughter and father packing up will be illustrated, and the dad's glancing at an old picture of his wife will make it clear that he still holds an attachment to her, and a showing of the cult's pamphlet titled Embrace Christ - Start a New Life will hint towards where the film will end up in the future.

Overall, through many trials and tribulations we have a finalized concept that we are happy with and can't wait to get to planning and filming!