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Film Synopsis (Jos' Blog)

 We all discussed what the main plot of the film would be, and how our main character would end up in the woods according to our opening. We went through ideas of a childhood hallucination or imaginary friend being carried on into adulthood, and as Rhys got older people tried to convince him this character wasn't real. This made him angry and hostile, and overall put in chosen seclusion from other people - in turn this causes the creations of his mind to become violent (and this is how the Lady in the Gas Mask would differ from in the mind and in reality). This was one of our initial ideas.

 However we then collectively came up with the idea of drug involvement, and Jos came up with a storyline that combined a mental illness (schizophrenia) with drug abuse and we all agreed that this was an appropriate storyline (click above link for details).

 Me and Jos also discussed that if this was the background story, and the character was in the forest (having run away) in the beginning - what would happen in the rest of the film? Therefore we decided that the end of the film is what is to be shown in the opening - and the background story is therefore unravelled in the rest of the film (the drug taking, development of schizophrenia etc). So, evidently the film's structure is jumbled- with the end at the beginning. This is often a popular narrative (such as in Brick, 2006) as it catches the viewers interest with an exciting scene that is yet to be explained (makes the viewer want to watch the rest of the film to understand what on earth happened for such a shocking climax to occur at the end of it).