Update-Dystopian Trailer

Currently, our group is in the script-writing process for our trailer. We have scripted about 30-45 seconds of our film. Our dystopia is meant to criticize how society puts pressure on youth to be the best. The shots in the trailer are split apart with narrations and text. The opening shot is a rack focus, showing a student writing down notes and shifting to a view of a quasi-robotic teacher reciting the textbook. Our figurehead is Julia, the "smartest" girl in school. We show our main character, Matt and his girlfriend, Jessica having a conversation about her and there is a poster of the background of Julia with her GPA on a card. We show establishing shots of the setting at the school. The hallways are dark and silent and there is tickertape around the school that displays the highest and lowest GPAs of the students. We also include a shot that pans across the students in the classroom as they yawn and show signs of exhaustion to enhance the nightmarish state. Students are kept at school all day and all night. We view a phone conversation with Matt explaining to his parents that he has to stay at school at night to study. The climax of our hypothetical movie occurs when Matt overhears the principal giving answers to Julia. We see Matt telling this to Jessica and Jessica is shell-shocked. That is all we have written so far in our script. Eventually, our catalyst will be Jessica's suicide. We will see Matt undergo a change in attitude after this occurrence. Hopefully we will finish our script soon so we can start to work on the logistics of filming this trailer. We asked two teachers as well as the principal to participate in this trailer and hopefully we will be able to make do with limited resources.