After further discussions about my ideas for the film I have made several major changes in order to make the film fit into he thriller genre better.
My main character will no longer be a runaway teen but a young, ambitious investigative journalist instead. This will then isolate the main character more definitely as well as speeding up the time line which was becoming too complex to fit into a five minute film. As well as this, the main character will be more stereotypical as the main character often has a good job and are very career driven, for example, Clarice in silence of the lambs seems to have no personal life as she is dedicated to her job as an FBI officer.
As with the first draft, the main character's name is not actually Summer as they renamed themselves in the cult to form new identities. My protagonist therefore has been given an ordinary name at the outset and will be referred to as Rachel from here on wards.
Rachel will be go into the cult to find out what they are about as they preach that they want everyone to be free and live more organically and so the newspaper that Rachel works for wants to uncover the truth. The plot then follows the original idea that in the beginning everything seemed fine and then she starts to uncover strange and dangerous behaviour.
As the antagonist is often very clever I think that Rachel may be discovered as an undercover journalist quite early on in the film however she will not know that Ash knows.
The ending is, as of yet, undetermined.
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