Short Film Ideas: Ways With Wills

"When there's a will, there's a way" - the short story idea I have come up with which fits to this proverb revolves around the lives of two high school students; a highly studious girl and her classmate, an academically inept person.

In a nutshell, the story I have created tells about how with lots of hard work and determination, one can achieve what they want. In this case, the lesser learned of the two tries to prove how she is in fact, not as 'dumb' as people may think she is as she ends up challenging the more intellectual student to a battle where she agrees to compete that she will achieve a higher score in an upcoming maths paper.

The short story simply follows the process which happens for the two to end up placing such a bet in the first place as both students reputations are put on the line. First the short film starts off with the two colliding (where the agent of change occurs), and then I plan for a montage to occur which demonstrates the number of things which the less academic student does in order to try and improve her intellectual ability and prepare for the maths test. In the meanwhile, I am thinking of perhaps producing a split screen during this scene as on the second half of the screen, a contrast will be displayed where the other student will be seen wasting her time, not bothering to revise at all as she has too much pride and ego. The final section of the film will then show the two students actually being tested and then finally, receiving their results.

Of course, the storyline is supposed to be predictable and so the ending result will be that the 'dumb' student achieves her target whereas the other realises that she shouldn't have been so egoistical and relaxed. In this story, not only is the initial proverb dealt with, but the message of how one should not think prejudice and act upon it also accompanies this short story as it is because the higher achieving student thought that the other would never get a better grade than her, that she put no effort towards the maths test and ends up being overtaken.