Here is the trailer and story created by Joesph and Grace in the Film Fiction studio titled, "Advanced Placement." The trailer was inspired by a video made by the activist group called "Witness" which portrayed the terrible realities of the juvenile prison system in California. FACTS/INSPIRATIONS:? We were inspired by a video made by the activist group called Witness. Their video portrayed the terrible realities of the juvenile prison system in California. In the video we saw children our age being refused opportunities to learn and interact with others their age. These children, the majority of whom committed minor offenses were being treated like adult career criminals with no future. In the video we saw these children being more or less robbed of their childhoods which lead us the track that ended with this future we have created. This is a link to the video. ?QUESTIONS: On a personal level, our story is about the confusions and misgivings of childhood. However on a greater and more philosophical scale our story asks the question: what is the significance of childhood and what would our society be like without it? Politically our story questions the price of national paranoia and the cost of sacrificing freedoms for safety. ?? AUDIENCE RESPONSE: We feel that our primary job is to tell the most compelling story possible from which viewers will interpret the core themes. We want our audience above all to think about how these themes pertain to their own lives. We also want people to think beyond the world we have created and into their own reality to take a moment to examine their childhood's impact on themselves. ? WORLD/SETTING: The world of the film is our own, although a slightly augmented version. Our film takes place in a not too distant future much similar to that of Children of Men. The buildings and means of transportation are the same yet they are aged and bleaker. The film will include two settings: the prison and the outside world. The prison will be a type of totalitarian New England boarding school in a thick forested area. The outside world will be a world engulfed in war and a state of constant threat and terror much similar to the state of the US post - 9/11. ? ? CHARACTERS: COMMUNICATION: SOCIETY RULES: ?Characters and character development are not the focus of the story although they are still quite important. The characters consist of a group of boys with a focus on Jon: the protagonist. These boys will be a group among hundreds of prisoners/students at the institution. Jon will be a somewhat reserved though inquisitive person, deeply confused and starting to become critical of the institution. ?TIME: The film is set in the near-future anywhere from 30 to 60 years from now. The scenery is futuristic yet also dilapidated and deserted. Buildings are very much the same to keep the viewer grounded in their current time. ??TECHNOLOGY: Overall the technology gives a very totalitarian feel to the world. Riot police is far more common in the streets. Surveillance of the public is excessive with cameras everywhere. The computer interfaces are much like that of Minority Report, computer interaction is very much a part of everyday life. STORY: There is no narrator or voice-over and the story structure is fairly simple. The focus is on a combination of the character and the world. Ultimately the character is more of a symbolic representation of all teenagers or youth in general making his own traits less relevant. The story will chronicle the life of Jon, a child growing up in the proposed society. He will be separated from his family at birth and be forced into the brutal institute where most of the film takes place. Jon will live in this savage environment though he does not take pleasure in the violence that surrounds him. One day, Jon will find an old American high school movie (Breakfast Club) after some further research into the matter he will realize that he is being robbed of his childhood. After realizing this, Jon will eventually escape the institution only to be confronted with the realities of freedom. CINEMATIC STYLE: Our film will use mostly hand-held camera techniques almost documentary style. However, to capture more abstract shots a traditional cinematic filming approach will be taken. For example the prison scenes will be filmed in the more documentary style while the final shot of the boy looking over the city will take a more cinematic approach.