Post 10: Treatment

Our film starts with a troubled teenager, who keeps getting himself into difficult dilemma’s, we find out that reason is due to his father recently passing away.  Josh is a sixteen year old secondary student, who in the past has been an example student with top grades in all subjects of which went all down hill after the tragic death of his father. Throughout the film we follow the story of the grieving process the boy Josh is going through and how his way of coping is by getting himself into rebellious situations. Such as under-age drinking and smoking. As a result of his rebellious behavior, Josh sees his grades go dramatically downhill and starts to be threatened to be kicked out of school, which therefore, creates problems at home with his mother who is also grieving from the loss of Josh’s father.

Towards the end of the film we see Josh meet a girl, Sandra who helps him to overcome the issues surrounding his fathers death and his grieving process. We see Josh stop being friends with the group of rebellious teenagers who he kept getting into trouble with and makes a new group of friends who assist  him to overcome his problems. Josh then visits his fathers grave and confides to his father about his heart break and how he has met this wonderful girl who has helped him overcome the situation and progress further in his life.

Throughout our short film, we watch the life of the young character Josh as his life slowly falls apart in front of his eyes. Josh struggles to cope with the tragic situation and finds being rebellious a way to block out his emotions, as does not know how to confront them nor has anyone he can discuss them with. This is why meeting Sandra helps him overcome his issues because she encourages him to talk about his feelings towards the death of his father and visit his grave. 

Feed Back on Treatment

- Could be more specific, adding more information and depth about   what's going to happen   
- Might not be enough time to portray this idea in a five minute
  short film, may need to cut out some elements and make it 
  slightly shorter.   
- it is a very conventional idea, seems like it has happened in 
  many films,although it does have a good core potential  to 
  succeed as a short film.