Burn In Love

Target audience and story outline of Burn In Love

The target audience will be fifteen upwards as anyone under that age may not understand the meaning of the opening sequence. The contents is about a mother (Yasmeen Khali) that thinks her daughter (Sameena Waheed) is betraying her family because she has seen her daughter with a boy at college when she was hiding behind a car, spying on them. Later when they are both at home the mother is sat in the living room rocking forward and backwards then starts to memorise how her child was before she became "Westernised". The mother is in anticipation as to whether she should honour kill her daughter in order to keep the family name sacred. In order for the mother to do this she goes to see her daughter upstairs, the mother strokes the daughters and sighs (which is showed clearly with a depressed emotion).
Another memory of the daughter appears, the mother decided to burn the family home sticking with her plans to honour kill. Title fades in "Burn In Love".
Overall, the media product show complications to the story line and is therefore unsuitable for children under the age of fifteen.

Further development of initial idea

Due to certain circumstances we were unable to continue the initial idea of "Burning Love", therefore we have changed the idea slightly to reflect an overprotective mother who fears her daughter is bringing disrespect and disgrace to the whole family.

We are sticking to the initial plot however, are tweaking it slightly. our storyboard:-

1)The first shot is of the mentally disturbed mother (yasmeen) in a dark front-room rocking backwards and forwards on a armchair. Start off with a close-up shot of her facial expressions. 

2)The close- up shot will then stretch out into a medium shot reflecting the mothers body language.                    

3)FLASHBACK-desaturated to reflect that it is in the past.

Initial story line

The title we have decided on is Burning Love, however we may change this as time progresses.
Firstly we decided to have an extreme long shot of the home belonging to the disturbed father, his wife and their children. It should look something like the image on your left. This is to establish where the incident is taking place.

In the second scene it shows the disturbed father in the kitchen holding a petrol can.

There will be a invisible cut to a close up of the petrol can.

It will then cut to a close up of his face only showing the eyes and nose, showing sweat on his forehead and he will be twitching his eyes to show the anger that he feels.

It suddenly shows him throwing petrol all over the kitchen and as he goes to the front room he stops and looks at the photographs on the mantle piece. He picks up one of the photos which show the husband, wife and two children on the picture, the glass in the frame is also broken.

This leads to a flashback of a previous event of an argument.

Sound of flash.

The flashback will be in black and white and will begin with a low canted angle of a close up of the car door opening and a lady's foot coming out slowly.

There will be a cut to a long shot of the house like the first shot but this time at the window there will be the car from the previous shot also showing the lady walking into the house and saying "Goodbye" to the driver. Also in this shot the husband will be peeking from behind the curtain peering down at her and the car.

Sound of flash.

This Flashback will be a media shot of the wife and husband arguing, however, the music will drown out the sound so the arguing will be heard a little but the viewer will not be able to make out what is being said. Suddenly the male gets wound up, you can see anguish in both their eyes but he picks up the photo frame and throws it at his wife.

Sound of Flash. Back to the present...

Honour Killing.

About the short story

Short movie based on honour killings