Entry

Our first day of filming was a downer for all of us. The reality that filming what we had originally planned was too out of our league for the moment due to the absence of many things shone through on that first day. To counter that we knew we had to come up with something else, something that will allow us to keep our original idea without too many changes.

Knowing that filming an actual fight would be impossible to do, we decided to not complicate ourselves too much and decided to take a more simplistic route. 

We decided to expand on the main protagonist's back story.

We already had a few points concerning her backstory, but we didn't really go into too much detail, not expecting that we needed to do so. A few shots had already been planned to be filmed with the mother to be used in the fighting scene, but since we couldn't use the fighting scene anymore we decided to focus more on the mother and daughter's relationship. With this new idea we will be able to show a more deeper side to the audience by exploring real world issues such as abuse.

Following what we previously came up with, we decided to keep the idea of Joud's father dying in war and her mother turning manic because of that. This time there will be hints of child abuse present in the film.

The basic idea of the film opening is this: A younger version of the protagonist will run up to her mother to ask her if she could go to a boxing match. Instead of listening her mother (who is shown smoking and drinking) tears up the poster and threatens the child. Scenes of abuse such as these will appear throughout the film until in the last scene present Joud will be seen punching the mother then the scene will cut to black.

We plan to use as well as challenge many stereotypes whilst filming this scene. Hopefully things will go much better than they did last time. I'm sure they will have we learned from our previous mistakes and know what to do properly.