10/22/12

Today, I started to officially brainstorm new ideas for my screenplay. I am going to re-write from the beginning, and I guess that means it won't be completed by the end of the marking level. I guess that means I will continue it into the next marking level, unless some miracle happens.

The screenplay was starting to become a murder mystery, and that is not what I wanted at all. I want to focus more on Dani's suicide, rather than Austins reactions. I am still going to use the idea of her being bullied to the point where she kills herself, I just need to know the exact reason. I looked up teen suicide cases that have happened within the past couple of years, and here were some that really caught my attention.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/kids-and-laughing-teachers-bullied-suicide-teen/

This one may be an interesting one to play with. He wasn't really the one who put the idea of suicide in his mind, it was a dare. It shows how peer pressure plays a bigger part in society than we really know.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/us/30bully.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Even though this is a typical suicide that was caused by bullying, the kids who bullied the girl were charged.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/kenneth-weishuhn-gay-iowa-teen-suicide_n_1431442.html

The fact that a Facebook hate group was made about him is something that is really unbelievable to me. I may want to use this.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34236377/ns/today-today_news/t/sexting-bullying-cited-teens-suicide/

This could tie in with my plotline with her boyfriend and his sister. Maybe Jessica finds Sexting evidence on her brothers phone, and sends it around the school.





Reflection: I think that I deserve a 100 for this post. I think I found a lot of inspiration for my screenplay, and I will definetly be looking into these suicide cases a lot more to find inspiration and realistic facts. That was my main issue with it, and I want the re-write to be much more realistic. My problem was that I didn't do enough re-search, and I got lost in this made up story.