My Idea

I'm choosing to go with the point of not knowing the character is the antagonist. Instantly I think of Hitchcock's film Suspicion. 

- Suspicion, Alfred Hitchcock (1941)

This differs from the point we made in the brainstorm because instead of not knowing, Carry Grant's character is set up through the whole film to be the antagonist or more specifically the false hero.

We are led to believe that he goes into marrying a woman from a wealthy family only for her money, then he goes along spending their money on gambling and luxuries for her. 

Later, he finds himself in a situation where he could inherit all of her family's money if she were to die. The reality is that he's been fighting against the thought of suicide. He's in too much debt, he can't keep a job and his best friend has been killed. But, he's too proud to admit it to his wife. All the while, we are led to believe that he wants to murder his wife to inherit all the money.

With that in mind my idea is as follows:

• Character is pressured by pride
• Buys the loyalty of their friends
• They struggle to pay bills and don't think to look for a job
• They were offered financial help from their brother but they don't admit that they need help
• They sell their belongings to pay bills and continue to buy friends
• Soon they end up with nothing left to sell and their friends are gone
• They are left in shame
• They are forced to swallow their pride and contact their brother for help

Logline:

"An unemployed, upper class wannabe is held together by their pride alone, but when buying friends becomes too steep, only they can decide when it is time to admit to shame."

Storyboard:

Visual Storytelling:

I considered a possible use of tone and colour in my idea. For the scenes when the character is on their own (frames 1, 3, 5 and 6 in storyboard), there could be contrasting tone with hard light like the stair scene in Suspicion. 

For the moments when the character is with their friends buying them everything, in my head I saw it as being quite a blur and I though about the saturation of the neon colours in Blade Runner:

To me, it gives a vibrant, overwhelming effect of colour which is the pleasure the character feels in exhausting quantities; i.e. it's emptying their pockets of money.

We'll all go through our ideas and in a group discussion and vote on the top two we think link to pride the most, that are practical to construct and film and that it abides by the two obstructions.