At the very start of this media project, me and Rabbi wanted to do three separate stories within our short film, we wanted an issue about arranged or forced marriages, but we had problems with getting actors to be in the film and so we couldn't do this issue. From the very start we had the idea of the pregnancy storyline, and we have kept that throughout and it has made the final film. but for the third and final story we always had problems, we changed it many times and each time was because we had a problem with actors. so we thought about a storyline that we could realistically do without having actor problems. which is when we came up with the idea of a story surrounding the issue of self harm, we would be able to film that with myself acting in it. for a while we had the idea of doing a storyline with a girl who has an imaginary friend, she had him ever since she was little, but she never 'grew out' of being with him. she was going to be 17 and still have only her imaginary friend as company. but we decided that again we didn't have the actors and that this storyline, if we ever did it would have to be a separate short film in itself rather than part of a 3 way story narrative. so we got rid of that one.
our third story was then going to be about child abuse. we had the actors to be in it and we even filmed that story, but looking back on it, the lighting was terrible and so was the acting. this story wasn't included in the final film. the only two stories that made it was the self harm one and the pregnancy one. which i think now looking back at it is better than having three stories. have three would make the short film too long and i prefer the idea of just having two best friends and their lives behind the smiles they put on.
original ideas
- Pregnant girl
-Muslim who is in love with a boy outside of her religion - forbidden love-
-imaginary friend
final ideas
-self harm
-pregnant girl
other
-child abuse
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