Initial ideas

My first idea for this project:

Project Proposal Pro Forma & guidance notes

Précis

In response to a report that states that Lithuania has a highest suicide rate in Europe I am making a short film that represents the struggles that people have and what leads to a point when person decides to commit suicide. 

Rationale

Suicide is still one of the biggest problems in my home country Lithuania. It has a highest suicide rate in Europe with 28.2 deaths per 100,000 people annually. Every year there are many articles about suicide and it seems that it is never going to stop. The high suicide rates in Lithuania have been associated with a wide range of factors including rapid socio-economic transition, increasing psychological and social insecurity and the absence of a national suicide prevention strategy. In this project I want to reveal the truth what is hiding behind suicidal person’s doors.

There is saying that if you want to know the person you have to see his home. A person’s home can represent their current state of mind. It may be hard to see signs of depression in person, but home is the place where it cannot be hidden.

Aims & Objectives

This project is aimed to bring public and officials attention to the issue of people committing suicide.

Overview

All I need is just to find a room I could film in. I wouldn't need any actors as my idea is to film just items. Equipment considerations: it can be done on my camera.

Synopsis

The action is in a dark, cluttered one bedroom apartment. In the rooms the human presence still can be felt. Rooms are filled with personal belongings.

It would start from a place where there still are some happy life moments, maybe pictures with family from a childhood.

It would move to dreams that once that person had, for example post cards of exotic places. Then the view would move to a table with unpaid bills on it (which would explain why dreams that this person had were not meant to become true).

As further it’d go to a room as darker and more depressing it would get: unwashed dishes in the kitchen, dust on the surfaces, signs of loneliness and unhappiness.

The final scene is (something that symbolises death, maybe just the legs hanging)

Research:

In Lithuania this topic is relevant, however after I did a little bit more research I realised that this does not apply to UK.

This problem exists everywhere, however the reasons are different and UK compared to Lithuania is different. That is why it would be too difficult to create something that would apply for both countries and majority of people. I decided not to move further with this idea for this module.

Below I included statistics:

Bibliography:

Strukcinskiene, B, Andersson, R, & Janson, S 2011, 'Suicide mortality trends in young people aged 15 to 19 years in Lithuania', Acta Paediatrica, 100, 11, pp. 1476-1480, Academic Search Premier

Kalediene, R, Starkuviene, S, & Petrauskiene, J 2006, 'Seasonal patterns of suicides over the period of socio-economic transition in Lithuania', BMC Public Health, 6, pp. 40-8, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 8 October 2015