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Rebecca is a beautiful young woman in the 1940's, she has a huge dream of becoming a glamorous famous singer like she had seen in all the movies. But it's almost impossible to accomplish as she was born in a very depressing time for everyone, The World War 2. She sadly lost her parents due to this terrifying living nightmare she faced daily and would face almost anything to escape. But this all changed when she got evacuated to the beautiful golden countryside with her loving grandparents, where she meets an attractive mysterious young man who promises her that her dream will come true. But this manipulative, withdrawn man isn't everything he seems at the first glance and takes advantage of Rebecca's naive personality. So be careful what you wish for, sometimes it comes true. 

George Brent appears to be a charming, wealthy  kind young man, but this act he performs everyday started to develop after loosing his mother at a young age. All he's ever known is neglect and having to be able to fend for himself, due to his father being more interested and engaged in his auto mechanic business and his money than his own son. This drove George to insanity to the point where he murdered his own father and faked his suicide note, leaving him with everything is father worked for. Suddenly George was overwhelmed with money, cars, a house and a business. It amazed him how easy it was and how he felt no remorse towards the death of his father which made him crave the 'accomplishment' of 'easy money' and all it would take for him to gain more would be for him to use his strong confident personality and find someone that he could easily confine in by using a smart twist of words and playing on their emotions. He continued planning out murders and taking action and watched the money pile up, until the day he met Rebecca. She is similar to him in ways that other people couldn't understand and this meant that he could easily manipulate her mind. The thought of love was like an obsession for Rebecca, she had always wanted to find someone to get the attention she needed to feel secure. But 'love' for George was just another human emotion he could act out and play with, to him it didn't mean anything it was just a weakness in another person. 

George informs Rebecca that she will become a star, that they'll flee to a big city together where everything is better and she'll have the lifestyle that she'd always wanted. Plus there would be millions of patient fans, waiting outside her hotel just to adore her and get a glimpse of her beautiful face. That she'd have the finest clothes and be able to eat like the Queen of England. And George would be her manager and he'd make everything perfect, plus get a signed record label contract in no time and become one of the world's greatest singer to go down in history. All she had to was agree for George to murder her grandparent's and steal they're money...sounds fair stretched, but Rebecca was desperate to escape and she agreed that they were old and it would be better if they died together in the stressful time of the war, they're are worst ways to breathe your last breathe. Plus she adored George, he seemed to be the perfect man, but little did she know that after they'd committed the crime and fled the scene a private detective would be onto the case and had discovered that the Walter Brent suicide case was planned by his son. 

They had to quickly change their identities and name, Rebecca dyed her hair bleach blonde and completely changed her appearance aswell as George who decided to go for a grey 'Hugh Hefner' look. He agreed to his promises though and she did become a star, theatres were packed with millions of fans dying to hear her sing. But she was very depressed and felt as though she had lost her soul, George also took all of her money she would make from a show or anything she ever earned due to being her manager. She was a slave to George Brent and would do anything to be set free...


Content 

A short film about a young girl with low self esteem and a very naive personality, wanting to escape the harsh and depressing reality of the war. She want's to live a glamorous lifestyle and become a beautiful singer with fans adoring her to take away the pain of having no one after her parent's died. She craves attention and she gains everything she has ever dreamed about when she meets an attractive young man in a church after being evacuated into the countryside to live with her grandparents. But he is after the same thing, money and to escape and live a different lifestyle and he isn't afraid of hurting people along the way, he has nothing to loose because he has already lost his mind. He manipulates Rebecca into thinking that the way that he thinks and the things he does are right and brainwashes her, the way he see's things is that if she becomes a successful singer, he will take all the money away from her and she will be a never-ending money machine for him. 

Research diary 

Researching into the great depression and the world war 2, this gave me more information about how hard times we're in those days and how someone could easily turn to committing crimes because finding employment and money was very hard.

This information shows how women lost their jobs and how they we're only getting paid 25p a week. Plus they had to leave work when they became married. Also how women we're evacuated because they we're in great danger. This relates to my main character Rebecca and how she wishes to escape reality and the times she lives in. 

Setting

I want the first sequence to have a dark grey colour wash to represent the depressing times during the war, it also reflects the situation the main character Rebecca is in and how she feels about her life, it will show the wreckage of her family home. The first scene in the house  will be filmed from outside my house and will then be shot in my bedroom whilst Rebecca is looking into the mirror. 

The next shot of a wrecked house will be filmed in Droylsden at a knocked down house with rubble and household objects on the floor, this is the shot where it indicates to the audience that the house got wrecked from a bomb and we then see a hand under rubble. 

The second setting is set in the countryside, this will be shot in Mottram near Mottram Hall, we will see Rebecca running down a country lane with bags in her hands. I want the colours to be bright and natural in this scene to represent the calmness compared to the first scene. Rebecca turns a corner and bumps into two old people and hugs them. There is happiness in the characters faces and you can tell that they love each other. 

In the third scene this is going to be shot inside a church, where Rebecca meets George, we see the characters looking at each other and we then see the characters walking in the woods outside the church talking to each other, this is where George brings the obstacle into the film. This will be shot in a church in Mottram.

The fourth scene is shot inside a house and we see George slip something into the grandparents tea and he picks up a large sum of money and they both escape with the sound effects of police sirens. 

The fifth shot is in a hotel room and Rebecca is sat in front of the mirror again and she is dying her hair bleach blonde and we hear George talking to her in the background about how she will become a star with her new image and it's like a copy of the first shot where her mother is talking to her in the background whilst she is looking into the mirror.

The sixth shot is a sequence where people are arriving into the Performing Arts theatre and two women are discussing how nice her manager is, which is George. We then see Rebecca stood onstage and is singing she has a depressed look in her eyes and we then see a close up of George and we see him smirk. The screen goes blank. 

Target Audience

I think the target audience for my film would be teens and young adults and adults. I think the genre would be both male and females but possibly more towards females because of the main female character and the good looking male lead role. But I also think that the action of the murders would appeal towards the male gender more than women. 

Step Outline - Scene by scene = What happens in every scene

EXT -  Shot of an old cobbled road and a victorian house (Filmed in the Moravian square in Droylsden) This is where the main character Rebecca lives with her mother.

IXT - Rebecca is sat inside her bedroom looking at herself in the mirror, putting makeup on and fixing her hair.
(In the background we hear dialogue of her mother crying about the death of her husband and then we hear the sound effect of a bomb dropping)

EXT - (Shot at an abounded house with rubble outside) Wreckage of a house and Rebecca is stood staring at the wreckage and we see a woman's hand underneath the wreckage. (This is indicating to the audience that her mother has died. We then see a shot of a tear rolling down Rebecca's cheek)

EXT - Rebecca running in the countryside with bags in her hands, she then turns a corner and runs into Frank and Jane her grandparents and they hug (she's happy that she has been evacuated from the war and is grateful to see family). 

IXT - Rebecca is in a church with her grandparents and notices a man in the corner who she automatically fancies, she goes up to talk to him and they decide to take a walk in the woods after church together. 

EXT - Rebecca and George are walking in the woods and talking about their lives, she is telling him how she wants to become a glamorous singer. George admits some bad secrets to Rebecca and she is shocked but agrees to a plan that will change their lives. 

IXT - Rebecca and George are inside her grandparents house and they poison the grandparents tea and steal their money so they can run away together. Police pull up outside they escape and flee to the city. (A private detective had found out about George killing people to get money) 

EXT - Shot to Rebecca putting bleach on her hair in a bathroom (background noise of a busy city and cars) and we then hear George telling her how she'll look so much better with her bleach blonde hair and it will help their identities and they'll still have enough money for them to "make it" and she can still become a star. 

EXT - (Could be shot inside performing arts theatre) Last shot of people arriving in a theatre show, two women arrive and sit down one whispers "her manager is a very nice man, he must have a good life with the amount of profit he makes from managing a mega star" We then see a shot of Rebecca standing on stage with a bright colours red theatre backdrop, her new blonde hair her bright red lips, glittery dress and she's stood singing her heart out and the audience applauding, she has finally got her dream. The scene then goes black and the grey colour wash and cinematography comes back like pervious scenes. You can see in her eyes she is extremely unhappy and has a forced smiling expression on her face. The shot then cuts to George and its a close-up shot, we see his evil smirk. Then the screen goes blank.