Title: Fly High
Genre: Teenage Coming of Age Drama
Target Audience: The film will be marketed as a youthful experience, geared towards teenagers (12+) and the ‘young at heart’.
Setting/s: New York - Within a boarding school, suburban homes, restaurant, hospital and an urban park.
Characters:
Riley Johnson (protagonist) - A disturbed teenager (17 years old), who experiences constant harassment from his father, who also oppresses him from achieving his dream of becoming a writer. Riley, builds a strong relationship with his step-brother Aaron with whom he escapes his distressful life.
Bennett Johnson - Riley’s tyrant of a father who is a control freak and doesn’t shy away from getting physically abusive to ensure that his point of view
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prevails. He runs a small restaurant in Brooklyn. Aaron Johnson - Riley’s 8 year-old step brother who is also a victim to his father’s wrath. Liam Rhodes - The loving and caring uncle of Riley and brother of Bennett, who helps Riley break free of his abusive father. Ben Mason - The best friend of Riley with whom he is expelled from boarding school. Maya Haddrell - A beautiful young girl and the love of Riley’s life who has experienced similar abuse by her farther. Kiara Robinson - Bennett’s third, to-be wife. Heartless and egotistical. Plot Summary: 17-year-old Riley and his best friend Ben are expelled from boarding after being caught sneaking out of campus to attend a party full of loud music, alcohol, drugs and Maya Haddrell. Riley returns home to Brooklyn to a stern and abusive father, and a 6-year-old half-brother, Aaron (whose existence Riley hadn't known about). Riley is forced to work full time at his father's restaurant, giving up his dream to become a writer. Riley's kind uncle however, supports his ambitions of becoming a writer; but his father, Bennett, will have none of it. His father’s anger takes the form of verbal and physical abuse accompanied with constant humiliation. One night Riley sneaks out of the house, takes his father's car and goes to Ben’s party. There he meets Maya, again, a beautiful young girl, who soon becomes the love of his life. Together they leave the party only to find that Maya has been experiencing similar abuse from a young age. This - taking his father's car and sneaking out becomes a regular habit. One day his father is summoned to school to take Aaron away because of something he has done, causing Bennett to lose an important contract. Riley comes home to a scene where Aaron is being rushed to the hospital for some unknown reason. His father says that Aaron fell down the stairs and Riley is made to take care of Aaron. In the hospital, Riley impresses a lot of people including doctors and nurses with his stories and poems. He befriends Aaron and discovers that he was beaten by their father, brutally, after losing the contract. Soon after, Bennett catches Riley sneaking out of the house at night, enraged, he assaults Riley leaving him with minor injuries. The next morning their father declares that he is going to marry again and decides to send Aaron to a boarding school. One day, Riley takes all his frustration out on his father's car by a river but some policemen happen to see him in the act. He spends a night in prison after his father comes to know about the car and leaves him to his fate but is later bailed by Ben, Maya and his uncle. He returns home the next day to find his to-be stepmother and her relatives in the house. Riley learns from Aaron that he would be leaving for boarding school the next day. Riley simply wishes him luck and prepares to leave home. On his way out, Riley exchanges bitter words with his father in front of his guests and when confronted and aggravated by his father, punches him and runs away. His father chases Riley through the streets on foot, but cannot catch up to him anymore. Riley spends the night at his uncle's house with Maya. His uncle has a quiet word with Riley in the night. Along with Maya, the next morning Riley returns to his father's house and finds Aaron waiting outside while his father gets the car out. Riley convinces Aaron to go with him to Chicago leaving behind a note explaining his decision and warning his father not to look for them, with the threat of revealing his attacks on Aaron to the police. The movie ends with Riley, Maya and Aaron walking away holding hands.
Purpose, Central Themes and Concerns:
The film is intended to be a youthful experience; One which will expose viewers to the sophisticated nature of ‘growing up’ through an adolescent perspective. It will engage with popular teenage ideologies such as first love, alcohol, drugs and sex, whilst presenting that there is more to a teenager than that which meets the eye. In the film teenagers will be represented to be more sophisticated and self-aware of themselves to what is perceived by society.
The film will be a journey of self discovery. It will explore the idea of individualism as the main characters involve in discovering their identities, experimenting and exploring new experiences. Along with rebellion, the two themes will provide an insight into this emotionally exhausting and confusing period of one’s life.
Everybody's family is different, and never is that more apparent than in young-adult fiction. Fly High will explore many teenage experiences: a troubled, broken family with a single, abusive father and no positive role-models, a lonely disenfranchised boy lacking emotional fulfilment who must learn to assert himself around a man who wants to reshape him into his own
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image. Generic Conventions: Fly High seeks to adapt the teenage drama genre for adolescent audiences. The film focuses on the common generic theme, ’coming of age’. It conforms to the genre as it will explore the generic themes of self-discovery, rebellion, love, friendships and individuality. Coming of age is a film narrative that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of a protagonist who is growing from youth to adulthood.
Personal growth is the most important characteristics of this genre; it relies on emotional responses and dialogue rather than action. Riley is the conventional protagonist of this new teen drama, by closely following his character transformation from a rebellious yet passive teenager to one who stands up for himself, we are able to see him grow into an ‘adult’.
The plot is very realistic and relatable to teenagers from many aspects. Conforming to the generic story line of coming of age films, Fly High will also have a protagonist that faces realistic challenges, a difficult relationship with his parents, the illness/hospitalisation of his brother will occur and towards the end the protagonist will have a realisation, finally breaking free of his negative life.
Notable Audio-Visual Elements:
The film will capitalise on the realistic nature of not only the plot but also the visual and audio elements.
Much of the film will be shot with naturalistic, mood lighting which will highlight the key aspects of each shot. This will be accompanied by a majority of mid, and long shots with the occasional close-up shot to dramatise a particular emotion.
A new acoustic sound track will be recorded to emphasise the realistic yet emotional narrative of this
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