Inspiration

Source of Inspiration for New Idea

Broken

A sourse of inspiration for our movie is a short film called 'Broken'. Eman showed it to us while we were planning the shot list, and it seemed like a pretty good idea. We decided that we won't really use scenes with actual physical abuse in it since that would be very hard to film, instead we decided to use verbal abuse instead, and leave hints of physical abuse through showing the mother as an alcoholic.

Although our idea isn't completely similar to Broken, the thought process is the same. I think it's good to challenge the stereotypes because usually the child is shown to be abused by the father while the mother is the source of inspiration, in our movie it'll be the opposite.

Here is an idea of how we plan to show the mother's personality; old, worn clothing, constantly surrounded by cigarettes and alcohol, cold and bitter personality-similar to the mother shown in Broken. The only difference is that the mother in our film will be shown inflicting abuse more verbally than physically although the hints of physical abuse will be there.

By having these two female leads we will be showing our audience how women have different sides to them too. Our main protagonist is a character that was abused in the past but fought through it with hard work and determination, and became a professional boxer-a career that not many films show females having. Her character is an example of women's strength.

Her mother however, is an example that women are able to be manipulative and abusive too. It breaks their 'fragile' and 'soft' stereotype and will show our audience that not all women are as great as they are made out to be-some are capable of inhuman things.

By having these feminist undertones in our film, I believe the concept we came up with now are very interesting to follow. We have already started planning our shots as well as the dialogue which we previously forgot, so hopefully the second day of filming goes much better than the first.