Major Pre-Production Development: Idea and Story Decided

   Mark has come up with an idea for a film which we have decided to use for the story of our Major Production. The story Mark has created is:

A couple that discovers that their child has become infected with a rare disease which causes the cells in the child's body to break down rapidly, which will ultimately lead to a very untimely death. There is no known cure, and as a result of the families desperation to save their child, they volunteer to take part in experimental clinical trials, with the hope that their child will somehow get better and be saved.
Miraculously the child eventually begins to recover and show an overall improvement in health. It seems that normality has returned until people, animals and plants living close to the child begin to fall ill and die. It is then revealed that the things that are deteriorating are losing their cells, and the child is somehow absorbing them to fix their own cells.
This angers the public and they then begin to subject the family to abuse, forming a hate campaign and eventually (when a massive amount of people have died) demanding that the child be killed. This causes the family to begin falling apart, disagreeing and questioning what is the right thing to do, with one eventually believing that the child should be killed so that everyone else may live, and the other not wanting to kill the child and instead working with the scientists forming the clinical trials to try and find a cure. This ultimately leads to a break up.
The film ends with the parent who originally didn't want to kill the child having a break-down and looming over the sleeping child with a pillow (presumably to smother the child) but cuts away to another scene before anything is done. The next scene shows the parent sat in silence in the park in silence, before dying- leaving the viewer to wonder whether or not the parent killed the child or not.

   I am very excited about this story as I believe we can create a really good film from it. It is a unique concept that will enable the audience to relate and or connect with the main characters in the film. It could even spark up discussion and divide opinions on the choice the of life or death that the film poses. I am very excited for this film, my next move is to research in depth Cinematography and Directing and also while trying to think of a name for the film.