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 STORY -  A Gathering


It is a story of 4 siblings, Jack (The oldest, 24), Isabelle, Sandra and William (The youngest, 18). This films starts with Isabelle waking up, to then continue to with a calendar and a circled date behind her slowly coming into focus. Then a scene of her making breakfast getting washed and dressed going to the supermarket for food for 'later' and then a conversation with her siblings on her phone to decide 'what time they will be meeting' and then proceeding to see the two brothers playfully arguing on the group chat, showing the audience the type of relationship they all have between each other. However Isabelle types in the group chat and no one replies

Later on in the film, the family arrive at Isabelle's house for dinner, where they will be having a Sunday roast. The table is already set out and every scene of conversation before the dinner will always focus on Isabelle with a sibling, never a conversation or interaction with other siblings alone. The next few scenes will focus on the dinner itself, wether its Isabelle cooking in the kitchen or serving the food. 

The main part of this scene focuses on the whole family, but as clues appear and sly little details are recognise, you start to realise what is actually going on. The same clues as before will still be occurring. One which the audience may realise is there will be music playing over a kind of montage of the family eating however you can slightly here the conversation. The clue at this point is very faint and the audience may not recognise, however it is the fact that a conversation between the three other siblings will be happening at the same time, and the fact is that whenever Isabelle tries to say her point in the conversation, its almost like her brothers and sister are ignoring her. However at this point in the film this factor isn't really highlighted. During the eating scenes, Isabelle would leave to go to the kitchen to get food and prepare for the rest of the meal. However during this meal you will find Isabelle to look kind of light headed and there will be a series of images on the screen popping up resembling vivid flash backs. This will happen 2 times, until dessert where the family would be eating, and the ignoring clues would become more clear to the audience. It will get more dramatic as their conversation will get louder where as the camera is set on Isabelle and will not be taken off until she shouts... She will then go on to complain about the fact
















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