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The Meeting

Contemporary drama about two contrasting teenagers meeting in the woods unexpectedly. They share shocking truths and harsh realities, drastically changing their views on each other.

The genre of this short film is Drama.

The two main characters will be a teenage boy and a teenage girl (Steven and Claire).

• The girl is known as a 'popular' girl who is friendly to everyone, thinks everyone likes her (which some don't) and everyone thinks her life is perfect.
• The boy is known as the 'quiet' boy who no one really acknowledges (except for his few mates), and no one really knows anything about him.
• They both attend the same school, both are in sixth form (higher education).
• He knows who she is, but she doesn't really know who he is (she recognises him slightly). 

The main location will be in a woods.

• It will be set during the day, so the woods would look less scary.
• Due to the tone of the short film being quite sad, the woods will have to be quite messy with loose branches and twigs scattered on the ground to represent their messy and scattered mindset at the time of the meeting.

The teenage girl enters the woods crying and confused after finding her boyfriend cheat on her. When she found him she needed to get as far away from him as possible, which led her to running into the woods. The teenage boy enters the woods looking for his friend who will be selling him drugs. He hears someone talking to themselves, the girl, and moves closer to the noise. Instead of seeing his friend he sees the girl from his school crying. They engage in slight conversation, which lead them to find out about how her life isn't as perfect as it seems, and how his problems in his life has led him to taking drugs. Through multiple flashbacks of previous moments in both his and her lives, we see the true reality of their lives and how they are far from the stereotypical characters everyone assumes they are. They end up walking out of the woods together, walking away from their problems and changing the way that they judge people at first glance.