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Story Board Analysis

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Presentation Group Roles

Preliminary Editing Task

Research Into Life With PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like combat, a natural disaster or a car accident. For most people, PTSD symptoms may start later on, or they may come and go over time. Personal factors, like previous traumatic exposure, age, and gender, can affect whether or not a person will develop PTSD. What happens after the traumatic event is also important. Stress can make PTSD more likely, while social support can make it less likely. There are four types of symptoms of PTSD , but they may not be exactly the same for everyone. Each person experiences symptoms in their own way. These four types of symptoms are;

Reliving the event (also called re-experiencing symptoms). You may have bad memories or nightmares. You even may feel like you're going through the event again. This is called a flashback. In our film trailer as a group we want to show the main character having flashbacks of what happened to him both when he was happy before the traumatic event and flashbacks of the traumatic event itself.

Avoiding situations that remind you of the event. You may try to avoid situations or people that trigger memories of the traumatic event. You may even avoid talking or thinking about the event.

Having more negative beliefs and feelings. The way you think about yourself and others may change because of the trauma. You may feel guilt or shame. Or, you may not be interested in activities you used to enjoy. You may feel that the world is dangerous and you can't trust anyone. You might be numb, or find it hard to feel happy.

Feeling keyed up (also called hyperarousal). You may be jittery, or always alert and on the lookout for danger. Or, you may have trouble concentrating or sleeping. You might suddenly get angry or irritable, startle easily, or act in unhealthy ways (like smoking, using drugs and alcohol, or driving recklessly.

Our Group Film Plot Synopsis

It's the year 2018, jack is in an interrogation room where we learn of his past, military based, he was discharged honourably for attempting to save the life of his friend in an ambush although he lost him regardless. They talk about a back ground where his father was killed in a work accident at the age of 8, and now only lives with his mother. He was kicked out of school for behaviour issues then joined the army at 16. He gets convicted of the murder of his fiancée, prints on the gun and blood on a shirt found at the crime scene (he has flash backs to moments from Jacks perspective. he sees multiple things such as a silhouette of a person, the gun and his fiancée), they sentence him to prison for life which is then, after 2 years released over false claims. On his release he's sat in an interview with a mysterious unknown officer who hands him a file with the title "leviathans" which gives him his first source to find his fiancée's murderer. Military background was an elite training programme for a specialist force where assassination were top target priorities, this gives him an enhancement on his revenge plot.  

He spends years after his prison sentence training and learning about the man who murdered his fiancée. He finds leads to a group under the name Leviathans. He finds people who have been affected by this group as well who have leads, they give him information. he spends time training and then heads off to find the mysterious group. As he arrives at the location. As the door swings open, jack pushes through the waves of mercenaries and criminals, Jack raises his gun and aims at the shooters head. Jack is then confronted by a mysterious man dressed in black (flashes back to the silhouette). the two begin to duel it out and are found to be evenly matched. As the two combatants fight Jack manages to gain the upper hand and manages to get a blow at his attacker. the shooter raises his head from the floor, he looks jack dead in the eyes, it's his best friend. Jack hesitates and asks why, and how. Jack is yelled at by his friend; from his point of view he was abandoned, tortured and interrogated, in the heat of the moment, Jack not being able to deal with the revaluation that his best friend who he had buried, had turned his life upside down due to his mistake shoots his friend. everything he'd lost was there in that moment, but the pain of realising it was his best friend who he thought had died was too much. It forced him to pull the trigger. He then turns the gun to himself screaming that he was the reason for all of the suffering, in his anger he picks up his gun and throws it away all his anger and pain comes out through his screams. He turns around to the sounds of sirens, looking round and realising there is no other way out; he reaches for his old friend's gun, pulls a picture from his pocket, of his fiancée, he says im sorry then pulls the trigger on himself.