Naturally since I'm doing a coming-of-age project I'm taking a lot of inspiration from my own life experience. Since I'm a senior in high-school and I'm close to my characters age, it helps to add realism to what being in your late-teens in modern times is like, rather than some Gen X writer creating some offensive caricature of what they think teens are like. Since there's not much to do around here, me and my friends, for lack of a better term, like to bum around and loiter in parking lots and entertain ourselves but talking about incredibly unimportant things we'll probably forget by the next day. Especially during tech week, we like to debrief our separate interactions with the people in our class because there's genuinely nothing better to do. So, I want to shoot these scenes in locations that feel very familiar to me and my friends.
SETTING #1: AUDITORIUM
I want the initial scene to take place in their natural environment to give the audience a glimpse of how the characters interact with each other within the theatre program.
I took inspiration from my personal life and my perspective during tech week. Tech week is a two-week rehearsal period before show week which means it’s typically a very stressful, chaotic, yet fun experience since you get to spend 2 hours everyday with your closest friends. This is something I really aim to capture in my film opening.
SETTING #2: TOWN CENTER
For the second scene, I want to show the characters interacting in a quieter environment with their closer friends. This also comes from my personal experience as I live right next to town center and spend an absurd amount of time there debriefing with my friends after tech week. There’s genuinely an 100% guarantee someone will do something to irritate me or one of my friends during rehearsals, and it must be spoken about to de-stress from the situation.
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