Character
- Character Arc: The girl in my story realizes through all the pressure this society is putting on her, that in order to be happy, she has to be happy with herself, and not be the society's definition of "happy"
- Peeling the Onion: Through the various groups of friends she has and the activities she is involved both at school and outside of school
- Universal Empathy: Show other characters admiring her & Make her really good at everything she does (grades, sports, clubs).
- Protagonist: Throughout most of the film, she will be static because she is so lost in trying to please society, but at the end the audience will see the change in her.
- Antagonist: Static- they will be loud, obnoxious, and super strict on regulations
- Minor characters: static- will not be included in many scene
Conflict
- Tension: tension will be built when she is being bogged down with all this new stress of trying to please society. The audience will feel empathy because they too will know how it feels to try to be perfect at something or they know how it feels to be stressed.
- Character lock: In order to no longer feel the pressure of society, she will HAVE to take everything off and seek happiness through her own definition. She will literally be held down by all the objects.
- Forced Action: She sees herself in the mirror and thats when she realizes that her whole experience with it has been an adventure and she can no longer go back to the naive way she has been living her life.
- High&Low stake: high stake- she will lose her identity and happiness as a person; low stake- she cannot get her regular routine done because of all the weight she is carrying
Plants and Payoffs
- The audience will have to figure out that her new group of friends seem helpful in the beginning but towards the end, everything they have been doing is only to hurt her and bring her down.
- Throughline: letting society tell you how to be happy is bad!
Plot
- Catalyst: When she reaches her 18th birthday her eyes are open to the unseen.
- Biggest conflict: She is struggling to find her lost self in the midst of society.
