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Logline: A lost teen trying to find who he is.

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The video will be shot on film and for the first half of the video I'd like to do a bleach bypass this will help to create a surreal atmosphere, this plus pastel colors and blowing out the lights. The video starts out in a small, messy studio with only a dresser and mirror and an old mattress with no sheets. The walls are stained yellow from years of smoke. The closet has only one old sport coat. Our teen is standing at the mirror looking at himself, he's dressed in dark colors reds and blacks. He walks to the closet and puts on the jacket. He walks outside and walks down past the slums to a group of rich kids hanging out at a BMW convertible. The rich kids are dressed in designer clothes and wearing lots of pastel colors like pink, baby blue etc... As our teen approaches they rich kids struggle to hold back their laughter. When our teen sees them he is hit with an image of his family portrait in the kitchen (reminiscent of the photos from the depression), where there is an empty chair where he should be sitting. Flashback to the rich kids who invite our teen to get into the car. In the car our teen is squashed between two of the rich kids in the bitch seat in the back. They are picking over his clothes and and making faces. They pull the car over and through the jacket to a homeless man on the street. The car speeds off and heads to a private club. At the private club our teen is denied entry into the club because he doesn't have a sport coat. All the rich kids put on their sport coats and walk in. The driver turns back to our teen, leaning against the car, and tosses him the keys. He mouths to our teen to "watch the car" As the rich kids enter the club, the camera dolleys past them and into the club, where Low Vs Diamond is on stage. Low Vs Diamond is dressed in tuxedos and playing very reserved, not much stage presence. The camera cuts to close ups of his sister, mother and father in the portrait. Cut to a close up of our teens face in the car's side mirror. After a brief moment the teen looks down at the keys in his hand, cut to a shot of the license plate which reads MONEY and the car speeds off into the distance as the camera rises up. The car pulls up to where the homeless man was sitting and our teen throws the keys to the homeless guy. Our teen then turns and walks right into the camera filling the entire frame in black, cut to the next scene where the frame is completely filled with black, then our teen walks away from the camera to reveal the family portrait shot. Where our teen takes his seat with the family, and as he takes his seat the bleach bypass effect goes away and the color saturation returns to the film. The sister then grabs our teens hand and pulls him off frame right. Cut to a club scene where Low Vs Diamond is playing on stage. Our teen and his sister enter the room and join in with the rest of the crowd. The camera then tracks backwards out of the club to the street. As the camera reaches the other side of the street the homeless guy drives by in the rich kids car.

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Cast (2)

Jack / Leading

Gender
Male
Age
18
Ethnicity
Any
Character Description
Young guy trying to find who he really is.
Instructions
Needs to demonstrate a range of motion in a subtle way

Jack's sister / Supporting

Gender
Female
Age
18
Ethnicity
Any
Character Description
Very supportive of her brother and wants to do whats best for Jack.
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mayonfilms
Mayonfilms

Seattle, WA

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