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This is a list of songs that inspire my overall feel for the screenplay/ that fit the "vibe" for lack of a better term. I chose songs that resonated with me in high school and that I listened to when I needed help getting through something or just needed to escape from reality for a bit.

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I specifically chose 2017 and spring time because this was a really important time in my life. Even though I was a senior in high school and just graduated and Dani is a freshman, I felt like I needed her to feel the joy of this time as I did. This was a bittersweet time for me because I was two months away from moving to Boston to go to college, however that would mean I would have to leave my friend group and we all went to different colleges. I spent the entire summer with my friends and I think it was the best year of my life full of change, heartbreak, and new beginnings. I feel like Dani needed to feel this type of joy in the midst of her difficult situation trying to navigate through her first year of high school, her relationships with her family and friends, and her relationship with herself.

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Dani’s bedroom is small yet cozy. The walls are painted yellow and she has pictures of her friends and artwork on the walls.

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Dani attends a coed Catholic school in suburban Texas. For this, I decided to take inspiration from my own Catholic school in New Jersey. Below are photos of my real Catholic school.

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Louise lives in a tiny one floor home in Texas. She lives down the street from Dani and her family. Her home is full of knick- knacks, photos, antiques, and other trinkets Louise has collected throughout the years. Her house has one bedroom, one bathroom, a small yard, and a front porch where Louise spends most of her days sitting in the Texas summer. Her house, although small, is full of love and always feels like home. Below are inspirational photos of my vision of Louise's home. NOTE: I only included pictures of her living room and kitchen because the rest of the house wouldn't be seen.

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These are screenshots from the movie "Terri" where I pulled inspiration for Louise's kitchen from. I imagine her kitchen being very tiny and cluttered with old, outdated appliances and a lot of knickknacks

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I picture Louise and Dani having to sit very close to each other at the kitchen table due to the small size of her kitchen table. This leads to more personal, intimate conversations with one another.

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I picture Louise's living room as being similar to her kitchen: small and cluttered with artwork and pictures on the wall, a ton of knickknacks, antiques, etc. It's small yet very cozy and inviting. I picture her living room with a bit older decor and furniture than pictured but with the same amount of clutter/coziness.

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Danielle a.k.a. “Dani” is a 15-year-old freshman in high school attending Catholic school in the suburbs of Texas. She is friendly, outgoing, and very down to earth. Although her life at school is well, her home life isn’t so great. She struggles to maintain a healthy relationship with her parents and they often butt heads on what they expect Dani to be and what Dani herself wants to be. Dani is carrying a secret about her personal life that she hesitates to tell anyone, even her closest friends.

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Beanie Feldstein

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Carley is Dani’s friend and classmate. Carley is 16-years-old and is also friendly and outgoing like Dani. However, Carley tends to live more in a fantasy world, whereas Dani is more down to earth and realistic. Carley and Dani often butt heads about Dani and her parents because Carley does not understand the struggles in their relationship and Carley often blames Dani for her own problems, creating conflict between the two. Carley is a good friend to Dani, but often fails to see the wider scope of things and lives in her own bubble.

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Kristen McAtee

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Dad is Dani’s father. He works in the hospital on the weekends as a psychiatric nurse and he is home Monday-Friday. During the week, he is often seen working on some outlandish home improvement project that often is seen as more of a hassle than an improvement. Dad is more easy going than Mom and Dani and Dad seem to have a closer relationship than Dani and Mom. However, Dani often criticizes Dad for being too passive and not trying to understand Dani’s feelings. Dad is a bit easier to talk to than Mom, but he’s more goofy and sometimes does not take Dani as seriously as she needs to be.

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Jason Bateman

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and Michelle Dockery for Mom

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Mom is Dani’s mother. She works a 9-5 office job as an accountant and is often too tired when she gets home to do anything but watch TV for a bit, have dinner, and go to bed. Mom and Dani rarely spend time together due to their conflicting schedules and personalities. Mom is very hard on Dani and expects her to be the “perfect student and daughter.” Mom and Dani often argue about school, Dani’s social life, and her future plans for college. Mom is a loving mother, but shows little affection and can be considered closed-minded.

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Michelle Dockery

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Louise is Dani’s 65-year-old neighbor and confidant. She is a retired psychiatrist. Dani is often at Louise’s house and feels she can trust Louise more than her parents. Louise is affectionate, caring, but can be stern and brutally honest with Dani when she needs to be. Dani sees Louise as a mother figure and often comes to her and opens up to her more than Mom.

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Viola Davis

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My inspiration for Dani and Carley's school uniforms comes from my Catholic school. I know Catholic school girls are usually seen wearing plaid skirts, however in my experience, my school did not allow skirts. All of the girls had to wear khaki or black pants, a button up polo, and could wear a cardigan and/or sweater vest. Black dress shoes were also part of the dress code. All pieces of the uniform had the school's logo on it and these are the school uniforms I envision Dani and Carley wearing at school.

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These are photos of when I was in high school that serve as examples of our uniforms. The bottoms were just khakis or black dress pants.

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Outside of school, I picture Carley in "indie" outfits with a lot of color, prints, cropped shirts, hats, and flared pants.

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Outside of school, I picture Dani in more basic, laid back outfits. Although she is outgoing, I picture her wearing clothes that are not as big as her personality, such as large hoodies and leggings with her hair tied up. I picture her trying to hide her true personality/identity through her clothing. Her clothing tells a story and identifies that there is more to Dani than what appears on the outside since her clothing and her personality do not match. I picture her choice of clothing as a way to hide who she is and she wears what she does out of fear of revealing her true self.

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I picture Louise dressing like a "hippie." Her wardrobe is just as dysfunctional and out there, yet comforting and inviting as her home is. She wears a lot of jewelry, colors, and patterns in her wardrobe.

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Mom and Dad don't really have any specific wardrobes/outfits. I picture Mom in a blouse and pants (pictured in the Michelle Dockery photo with Chris Evans) for work. I picture Dad usually wearing jeans and t-shirt during the week and wearing just regular scrubs for work during the weekend.

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If this treatment/screenplay were to be translated into film, I would envision it being filmed on 35mm film. I take inspiration for the cinematography from films like "Terri" and "Call Me By Your Name." I like the blue-yellow tint of these films and the grain from the 35mm (as seen in CMBYN) and I envision that color scheme for Girlhood.

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For sounds, I like the raw sounds of the world around the characters without the interruption of background noise (i.e. shoes scuffing the floor, doors creaking, breathing, clothes shuffling). I wouldn't completely eliminate background music, but I would mostly have the natural sounds.

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The video attached is the scene where Elio and Oliver sleep together for the first time from Call Me By Your Name. In the original scene, there is some background noise. However, this video was edited to eliminate most of the background music/sounds which I enjoy more. It makes the scene feel more intimate and personal, almost like I am not supposed to be there, and I like that feel for my screenplay.

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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME - MIDNIGHT SCENE WITHOUT BACKGROUND NOISE💚

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What I also like about that scene and CMBYN as a whole is the camera angles. It takes on a "fly on the wall approach" and makes me feel like I am in the room with Elio and Oliver, especially in their most intimate moments, is what I take inspiration from. I like the feel of being in the movie through the eye of the camera, not just watching it, and that is what I would like for the filming of Girlhood.

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For the dream sequence, it starts out with Dani laying face-up on her bed (pictured in column 1), staring at the ceiling. She just got into a fight with her friend Carley and Carley left, leaving Dani alone in her room. Dani falls asleep and the sequence begins. I imagine Dani and her parents sitting together at a round table that is a bit too small for all of them, so it's (for Dani) uncomfortably close. There is very little conversation and Dani isn't really eating. The setup I picture is similar to that in "Call Me By Your Name" and how the table is at Louise's home.

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They sit very close to each other. However, the closeness in Louise's kitchen is different than the closeness in Dani's parents' kitchen because Dani feels very comfortable with Louise and feels more at home there, so she doesn't mind being close. At her parents' home, the closeness makes her uncomfortable. Dani feels like she wants to physically distance herself from her parents as much as possible, which is a reflection on her emotional distance from them. Her parents ask her repeatedly what is wrong, but she remains emotionally unavailable and insists nothing is wrong, even though that is a lie. After asking and asking, she eventually tells them her "dark secret", which is the fact that she is gay. With her growing up in the south, going to Catholic school, and being emotionally distant from her parents, she never had the courage to come out to them out of fear of anger and rejection. In the dream, her parents take a long pause, look at each other, and then smile at Dani. They reach towards Dani, and before any words are exchanged, her front door opens. Dani wakes up and realizes it was all a dream and she is back to reality, laying on top of her bed. She begins to cry as she realizes her dream will never be a reality and she will never have that safe space within her home to be herself, hence why she feels more comfortable and free a Louise's home because she knows Louise will accept her as she is.

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I pulled inspiration for this scene from the experiences of my LGBTQIA+ friends. I have many friends who are in the community who have had varying experiences with coming out to their friends and family, both positive and negative. This sequence was based off of a dream that one of my friends had about coming out to their conservative parents. We both went to Catholic school for our entire lives and they came out in high school to their parents. I was inspired by their experience because it takes a lot of courage to do something like that, especially in a conservative Catholic household. Their bravery and resilience to be themselves when everyone around you is telling you that your lifestyle is wrong is something that is so inspiring and commendable and I felt very inclined to write about it.