Treatment – Aurora

Treatment – Aurora

 

Young girls are often described as innocent and naïve, sheltered from the truth, however these picture perfect images cannot be sustained and if you look close enough you can see the cracks forming on the surface. Our short film focuses on this idea twisted into a narrative; Ophelia had been suffering for too long and believed the only path for her was suicide. Aurora was Ophelia’s closest friend now feeling the pain Ophelia once felt. Our film is trying to show that suicide is never the answer there will always be another option even if you are drawing up blanks.

This is an emotional and gripping story of two friends connecting in the worse of circumstances. When Ophelia commits suicide her best friend Aurora is left to deal with the loss of her best friend’s death and visualizes it to be beautiful and poetic, as she realizes the harsh truth we begin to see her start to follow down Ophelia’s dark path until she finds the answer that suicide cannot be answered with suicide, and is able to seek the help Ophelia couldn’t. With a poetic narrative, read by Aurora throughout the piece the film comes together hand in hand to be an amazingly pieced together short film that will show the view of suicide from those who are left behind.

This doesn’t mean that Aurora feels no pain that life is a beautiful picture book the film explores the thorns she treads on and how she ends up getting to the right place. The short film will use a multitude of different conventions, such as a voice over, L- cuts and J- cuts that tie the whole piece together and make it flow between different scenes.

Ophelia is our reference to hamlet; she shows how we romanticize suicide into something that we can process, something that is deemed more acceptable. Ophelia’s death in hamlet is changed into a scene of beauty she drowns under her many layers on her dress, rather than the naked horrible truth, within our short film we will show Ophelia’s death as though it is a beautiful tragic death, as this is the image conjured up into Auroras mind as a way to process what has occurred, the more she thinks about it the more real the death becomes, we see the struggle and the pain of Ophelia’s death and it is not as beautiful as we once thought.