Alex Horton A2

Genre: Social Realism/Drama Narrative: There is a girl (older teenager) who has Aspergers and has a routine, and is socially isolated. A new boy (same age) moves in next door and they go to the same school. He sits next to her in class, its the only chair available and then he tries to start a friendship. She is very good at drawing and paints outside of school as her kind of 'release'. She shows him where she paints and her regimented style of painting (geometrical). She ruins one of her paintings by accident. She then gets into a panic and he helps her through this hiccup and she returns to painting geometrically again. He suddenly gets hit by a car and dies. She is distraught and then paints in a more frantic way, making her paintings more and more abstract and expressive. The final shot is her painting in a gallery.  Changes made and why: The age group - due to availability of actors we had to change it to a more accessible age group The girl having Asperge...

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Genre - Social Realism Narrative - A man (40s-50s) with OCD is struggling through life and he is very isolated. A younger woman (20s-30s) interrupts his daily routine and they start a friendship. She discovers he is a writer and encourages his writing, which helps his OCD to become less severe. He sends off to publishers and gets a rejection letter, which causes his illness to become more severe but she helps him through this. She then gets a partner/boyfriend and they end up moving away, leaving the man alone again on his own where he relapses into his severe form of OCD. He then gets a message/postcard from the woman and he is spurred on to writing again, he sends it to a publisher. The book is published and the woman shows up at the man's house with a copy for him to sign.  Ideas for filming -  The shots at the beginning are like the groundhog day to reiterate the idea of his un broken routine Use a number that is present in almost every shot - OCD is based arou...