Final Planning

After the initial research we started to brainstorm ideas and finalised the plot of the film. I wrote this synopsis outlining the storyline of the film. We also created storyboards for the opening 2 minuets of the film we would be creating, we discussed every shot and then Bruna and I drew the sketches and Nkiru wrote the short captions.

Synopsis-

The main protagonist within the film is Nkiru, 16, a young hardworking and ambitious student, living on a rough estate in south London. She lives with her mother Doyin and her younger Sister her single parent mum has migrated from Nigeria where she was a well respected nurse, to try and better her and her children’s life and educate the children like their late father would have wanted, however unfortunately Doyin is now forced to work long hours in an underpaid cleaning job. This in-turn means Nkiru is forced to look after her younger sister and take care of the home whilst trying to focus on her studies in college. She is very determined to succeed and dreams to go to university, however, she is aware that realistically this is unlikely due to her mothers financial circumstances. The film follows Nkiru as she watches everyone around her struggle with finances. A lot of her male friends from her estate are involved in crime; burglaries, bank scams and drug dealing. They often pressure girls into working with them as drug mules. Nkiru regularly witnesses her friend’s fall into the pool of criminal activity and looks down on this always refusing to even consider getting involved. This is until she starts spending more time with Jake a local boy from her estate, she has known him since he moved their a few years ago but  only recently started to get to know each other. He deals drugs and is heavily involved in burglaries alongside his cousin an ex prison convict, and openly admits this to her. Although she doesn’t agree with this they find they have a lot in common in both their family situation, she can relate to his hard lifestyle and he opens up to her about some of his feelings. She sees the sensitive side in him that no-one else does and begins to develop feelings for him. Jake knows how Nkiru’s family struggles with money and offers her some money for “a few simple favours” will Nkiru fall into the trap of this criminal activity?