After deciding against our zombie-apocalypse film idea, the three of us debated as to which genre we even wanted to represent. Given that we all like games we took a fair amount of inspiration from current generation videogames, specifically ones with a focus on action. As our ideas grew, we decided to go against a complicated plotline, as not only would it not appeal to the majority of teenage demographic but it would also be harder to condense into a 3 minute trailer while still allowing the audience to understand the general idea of the story. The plot of the film as a whole is as follows (keeping in mind that we may make alterations as we go along, but below s the basic narrative we’ve decided on)...
The story follows an 18-year-old protagonist (we’ve yet to decide on a name or whether we’ll just use my real name) who is a computer and gaming enthusiast, but more commonly considered a nerd. The equilibrium of the story would be at the beginning as we follow the stability of his life, and yet we also pick up on how monotonous and bland it is. Our protagonist is also aware of this, and we see his frustrations with the mediocrity of his life. However, he makes the (rather poor) choice of delving into more underground organisations, and he researches what could only be described as cults. While he acknowledges that most of these organisations are fake or misleading, he stumbles across an incredibly vague website which seems to hint at vigilante work, but does not include specifics or even a way of contacting the group. Instead, our character has to follow a trail of riddles that eventually lead him to a shadowy assassination guild, who tell the teenager that he has past the first test of finding them, but that he must train to be one of them. To his horror, our protagonist is also informed that because he now knows of the guilds existence and whereabouts, if he decides not to train to be one of them he will be killed and if he fails to pass his training, his life will be again be forfeit.
Our protagonist decides to train to be a killer, and this portion of the film follows his steady progress, showing the contrast between how he is at the beginning of his training (clumsy, hesitant and weak) to how he becomes after weeks of constant instruction (swift, cunning and strong). He learns of how the guild only kills truly evil people who manage to escape the justice of law or who the guild feels does not deserve even a chance of living in comfort in a cell (serial killers, rapists etc). The intention here is to show that the assassins aren’t mindless killers, but vigilantes in an extreme sense. The narrative will also present how the boy’s family life and friendships are strained and the general impact on his life. It is at this point however, that the narrative will progress into disequilibrium; the boy is also told of a group of killers called “The Silencers” who are trained in the ways of an assassin, but work to destroy the assassin guild by killing its members whenever possible. The Silencers believe that that the guild are simply murderers, and that they have no place in deciding whether someone should live or die. We want to highlight the hypocrisy in this ideology in our narrative, as the Silencers are doing the very thing they claim to despise.
Things fall further into chaos for our protagonist as one of his teachers from school violently confronts him and threatens him, revealing himself as an undercover Silencer. The teenager is given a week to reconsider his affiliation with the assassins, at which point he will “suffer tremendous regret.”
The disequilibrium is furthered when the boy decides to remain as trainee within the guild, and his world crumbles around him when he returns home one day to find all the members of his family dead, with a DVD left in his living room. On the DVD we see the teacher/silencer who had threatened him, laughing about the teenager’s foolish decision and informing him that he is next to die. Enraged, our protagonist seeks revenge and asks for his training to be intensified tenfold in order to be able to kill the Silencer who took his family from him. The narrative will at this point show the determination with which the boy trains, and anger that drives him, and the outcome of the battle with his supposed “teacher”......
I think I may have gone into too much detail......
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