My Short film

After having looked at differnt examples, I decided to make my film both a documentary and a drama, so to be able to convey my narrative through both interviews and shots of their lives.
I wanted a serious issue as I thought the documentary would help in making the narrative seem more realistic. I wanted to look at what is happening in Afghanistan and how that is directly affecting families and the soldiers themselves.

For my Advanced Media Portfolio, I have decided to create a short film of a soldier's return home after years of being away. My film is going to be a docudrama; a drama with aspects of a documentary, such as interviews with the soldier's wife.

First Scene:

The film starts with clips from the news of the war in Afghanistan, which then cuts to different pictures of the war (victims and soldiers) in quick succession. There is then a black out where you then hear a loud gasp. Keeping with the black backdrop, it cuts to the title page. This then fades to a shot of the soldier and his wife in bed, his eyes are wide open, she turns to him to tell him to go back to bed, the camera then pans further to his side of the bed to show him lying on the bed with his gun to the side of him.

Second Scene:

The shot then cuts to an interview with the wife in the kitchen, she is sitting down at table with a cup of tea talking about her husband's return. As she speaks about how he use to be, there are flashbacks of him before the war. The shot shows him laughin and playing around with his wife. (watching a film or something easy to film?)

Third Scene:

There is a shot of the soldier looking lifeless in the living room infront of the television, the shot then arcs to the room where there is a shot of his brother (or some kind of relative) in another interview, talking about how they miss him(...ect)

Fourth Scene:

Monologue from the soldier..."I'm just not happy in the fucking place, these images they haunt me...." (as he speaks either voice over as shots show him and how unhappy he is OR shows him talking into the camera, perhaps at night - like a sort of diary?)

Fith Scene (Final Scene):

Wife wakes up in the morning to find that soldier has killed himself, see her crying. She walks away, not wanting to talk to the camera. Camera drops and cuts to white noise. There is then a picture of the soldier as a final shot.

This is just the first draft of my film, there are some aspects I'm not too sure about which I will have to try out different options.