Sam is not an average normal protagonist. He is a complex young man that has been taken and consumed by the evils of society. Some young people may see themselves in Sam's situation, so this film could have a big effect on them. Sam will not be particularly stereotyped to a group in young people he will be fairly common teenager so in this film can appeal to a broader target audience through personal identity.
Sam's is part of a fairly dysfunctional family. This is the main thing that begins to take its toll and transform Sam from an innocent child to a complex, intellectual man. He soon gets kicked out of college for taking out his anger on another student. This is were the audience begin to sympathise with Sam.
Due to everything that's going on he becomes incredibly stressed at such a young age. He has no one to turn to and finds him enjoying alcohol a bit too much. He soon starts to think of alcohol as his only friend.
The pressures on for Sam from all sides, he doesn't know what to do and is getting worried and uncomfortable in his own skin. His mother and his relationship gets worse and worse, as she is worried about funds and starts to stress out at Sam for wasting all his money all the time. The fights between the two become increasingly worse and soon become physical. The audience may feel sympathy at this point for Sam as we see that he his almost pushed towards alcoholism by the pressures of society. This is where we see that young people need to stay strong and it could even be motivating for young people thinking they do not want to turn out like Sam.
Sam soon goes crazy, becoming intoxicated most hours of everyday. He soon loses sense of what he is doing and goes to far in an argument with his mother. Not knowing what he is doing he kills his mother. Once he sobers up and realises his madness, he kills himself. I think the audience will find this very shocking but I believe that to a young audience this will definately make them think twice about drinking so much.
This week my partner and I were busy as we began to shoot our opening sequence, it was a slight challenge getting everyone together and we had to cancel on various occasions and reschedule. When everyone was available we managed to get a considerable amount done. One issue that we had was the costume for the protagonist, on our production schedule we stated that he would wear joggers but he did not have that so we told him to wear something more average and normal, as the other cast members were wearing casual clothing and we thought that our protagonist would stand out too much and doesn't really blend in with everyone else. We also began to write our monologue for our opening which our protagonist will recite. To help me write the monologue I went onto you tube and looked for alcoholics stories and then did a blogpost based on this. It was very helpful as It enabled me to put myself in their situation. My partner and I also did some editing this week and looked at what we thought was good and what could have been improved, this helped us as we could go back to the locations and re-film any shots that we were not happy with. Overall its been and enjoyable first week of production, and editing and I look forward to seeing the final product.
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