the unfinished film

8.15.2023-1.10.2024

in seinor year of high school, i wrote and partially filmed a film called "Expected to Grow Up". it was refered to as "the lunch bunch" but i always hated that name. at the time i knew my limits were teenage actors and the setting of a school, so i thought why not a dramady/coming of age film set in 1 room, detention.

i have the script in its entirety but it is printed out and i dont feel like scanning it. so instead heres my planning whiteboard:


we also had an assignment to make a poster the film, and i thought the theme of "being put in a box" should also be in the poster. having the actors crammed into a bookshelf was visually intresting and fit the theme of the movie. i never got the actors crammed in a bookshelf but i did test if the bookshelfs could support a human. i figured if they supported me they would support everyone else.

lastly, i wrote into the film that a fish gets thrown at a skeleton. thankfully we filmed this part: