Synopsis Draft 4

In a dim room a girl, 17 years of age, sits on the edge of her bed staring down at her hands. In her hands is a bottle of pills, she pours an excessive amount into her hand; she sheds a tear as she looks at them. In the background there are noises and someone says goodbye, as this goodbye is said the girl gently puts the pills on the bed and leaves the room. She walks through the hallway into another room and begins searching through the draws, after finding nothing she goes into the hallway again but goes downstairs. She enters the stair cupboard, searching the confined space, but unable to find anything. She goes into the front room and walks to where the television is situated and looks inside the cupboards underneath it. She pulls out a small bag, unzipping it she pulls out a camera, which she takes with her into the conservatory. She places it down and picks up a few books, placing them on the table on top of each other. She again picks up the camera, trying to get it to work; once she turns it on she pulls out the LCD screen and flips it around. She places the camera on the stacked books and positions herself within the cameras frame, by looking at the LCD screen. Once she has positioned herself, she lets out a deep breath and presses record. She talks to the camera but realises it isn’t recording, she gets up and walks to the bag where she found the camera, she removes a cassette and goes back to the camera. She puts in the cassette and again positions herself within the frame and then presses record. She begins to talk to the camera but soon loses control of herself; she gently cries to herself and stops the recording. She sits on the furniture, trying to compose herself again, after taking a few breathes, she presses record again. She begins to talk, being more composed than the last attempt she gets much further than she did before but again loses control, and she stops the recording and cries to herself again. She picks up the camera and rewinds it, she watches the footage of herself but the footage changes to a different scene. The clip is of someone unwrapping presents but is establishes as a birthday party when happy birthday is being sung in the background with a child’s face lit up by birthday candles. The girl begins to cry but with a faint smile on her face, she removes the cassette from the camera. Someone walks in into the house and the girl quickly hides the camera behind a cushion, she gets up walking towards the front door, throwing the cassette in a bin. As the camera fade we hear her greet the person from the video with a cheerful voice.