Meet Julia

SO yesterday our group met up after school and planned out everything. It's about time. So basically when we were together we wrote down the entire script. I wrote the poem for the beginning of the film opening (the one that I made that crap storyboard for that I sketched about 2 weeks ago). Although we are muting most of the dramatic poem that she's going to be acting out for a voiceover, I thought making a poem is quite necessary so Rachel has something to be dramatic about.

After the drama scene, the "audience" is shown and the only person sitting in the theater is Rae's best friend Julia. Julia isn't necessarily the nicest person in the world. I play the role of Julia in our extract and I'm going to portray her as sarcastic and rather a negative person. She respects Rae's future goals but she isn't very supportive about it. She agrees with Rae's mother about how getting into the University of Florida is much more important than Juilliard (Rae's dream school). Her mother see's a future for Rae as being successful in the medical field but Rae doesn't want this for herself.

   Julia is a laid back person in general, but not when it comes to school. In the film opening, Julia freaks out because the SAT scores are out. Rae had already found out her score (around 1350) while Julia got a 1200. Rae is a smart girl but she couldn't care less about her academic skills. Theater and Juilliard are her prime worry and focus 24/7. Julia is irritated about this which makes Rae doubt herself and feel so alone in such a big world. Rae is determined to reach for her goals despite her "best friend" and mother's views on it. I'm hoping that this story line can inspire people to chase their dreams, even if people are doubting them.

   So we basically got most of the background story down, we just have to finalize the ending. We're trying to think of something different. We haven't decided between if Rae will end up going to Juilliard, which we believed would be boring and predictable, or she finds something else she's passionate about along the path of her decision making. I guess we will see!