mass media film project ideas and advice?

Question

I'm a high school senior making a 15-25 minute film for my mass media project.

so far the story is..
A lesbian couple gets into a fight and breaks up. #1 turns to a boy right after the fight. #2 is hurt and falls into a life of depression and drugs seeing #1 rebound so quickly. While hallucinating on lsd, #2 sees #1 and they get along like nothing ever happened. #2 crashes from the trip and realizes non of it was real, she was never there and they're still broken up. She realizes she can not live without #1 and commits suicide by slitting her wrists in the bathtub. While her life is draining from her, she flashes back to happier times. She dies with the though of watching the sunset with #1.

The audience should realize that all couples go through the same issues despite their sexual orientation. Love is love.

i need ideas on:
why they fight in the first place? (did #1 find out #2 did drugs before? and if so, why does she turn to a boy right after?)
i need a climax and solution.
thks

Answer 1

You can do this for school?? Wow, you have some liberal teachers & administrators.

(You can do this without the drugs, by the way)

If you have them feeling pressure from bigots, then they would fight because they probably don't have anyone else to turn to. The fight could start because #1 is tired of being picked on and facing discrimination, while #2 keeps saying they have the right to choose whomever and need to fight. That would make perfect sense for #1 to turn to a boy (to try to mask her feelings because of social pressure).

The climax could come when #2 gets picked on even more, as people start to blame her for "turning #1 lesbian." When #2 gets jumped in a bathroom or some other not-so-public area, and is left bleeding on the floor, #1 can find her and go through a second crisis, does she decide that this is exactly what she feared or that she now has a real reason to stand up - the love of #2.

Conclusion is up to you - do you want to send the message that people should speak out and stand up for what they believe (#1 helps initiate a Bi-Gay-Lesbian-Curious Alliance at school) or do you want to send the message that there are MANY people out there hiding their true feelings because of pig-headed bigots (she helps #2, but explains that she can't be with her & must supress her feelings until she finds a safer place - maybe even throw in a verbal jab that the administration does nothing to help curb the ignorance and hate - in this case, a very sad and somber ending).