Miss Teow hasn't yet sent me the edited versions of the proposals I typed out so here's the unedited version for you in case you need it as filming is on Monday.




Scene 1

(Past/Flashback)
Mandy is hand in hand with her mum,giggling away as she licks on an ice cream. She playfully asks her mum if she wants some. (To portray the close relationship of Mandy and her mum, Sylvia.)

(Mandy’s regretful voice sounds in the background)




Scene 2

Mandy arrives home, ignoring her mother’s presence. She flings her stuff on the floor along the way as she heads into her room. Sylvia asks Mandy how her day had been. Mandy rudely replies ‘fine’ and continues to ignore her mum, heading towards her room.

Sylvia picks up the dropped belongings of Mandy’s and stumbles after her daughter.

As soon as Sylvia straightens up, in a stance to chat with Mandy, Mandy’s bedroom door is being slammed in her face, by none other than Mandy herself.

Sylvia drops her hands to her side dejectedly, but sucks it up and decides to try again to win her ignorant daughter back.




Scene 3

Mandy has a pissed off look (she always does) plastered on her face as she sets up her slumming area. Magazines and accessories are strewn everywhere. Mandy empties out a plastic bag full of new and expensive cosmetics purchased during her shopping spree that day.

Sylvia then steps into Mandy’s room to try and chat with Mandy again. Mandy sees Sylvia approaching her out of the peripheral vision of her eye and immediately fits on a headphone onto her head.

Mandy rocks/sways to the music and acts as if her mum isn’t there. Sylvia, however, sits down on her chair to try and look casual and hints at the daughter if she has remembered her birthday, in the hope that she’ll remember it this year.

Sadly, Mandy proceeds to ignore Sylvia and only mutters ‘hm’s in reply, still bopping her head to the music.

Sylvia gets disappointed once again. But she never gives up hope. We then see that actually, Mandy’s headphones weren’t plugged in at all.




Scene 4

Sylvia drags her heavy feet over to the kitchen counter, where she supports her weight on her hands.

When she turns to walk away, we see that the ‘special event’ Mandy has forgotten was her mum’s birthday, according to the calendar on the wall.




Scene 5

Mandy hangs out at her place with her clique, having a sleepover. The girls start bimbo-ing (flipping through magazines and playing with cosmetics as though they’re bored) as they ‘act’ like they have nothing better to do besides being in this clique and hating life.

Mandy casually whines about her mum being so interfering in her life. One of her friends agrees with her and complains about her parents. Another girl joins in the debate and it soon turns into a heated rant.

Yvonne feels disappointed upon seeing her friends think these about her parents. She keeps silent and watches her friends drone on, willing them to stop.

(The noisiness drowns out and Yvonne’s thoughts fill out the murmurs in the background.)




Scene 6

Downstairs, Sylvia and Vivian are chatting over drinks at the dining table. Vivian picks up on the topic of Mandy, Sylvia’s unfilial daughter. Vivian shows how she hates her sister’s non-caring attitude, saying it’s what lets the daughter treat her own mum like this.

Sylvia desperately tries to ignore the comments made by Vivian and takes the cups into the kitchen to wash.

In the kitchen, out of sight from Vivian, Sylvia turns towards the cupboard where she stores her medicine. She suddenly feels groggy and tries to reach for the bottle of pills infront of her but she faints.

(The scene is shot from Vivian’s angle)

Vivian sighs, giving up again. Just then, she hears cups shattering in the kitchen and she immediately rushes towards the sound, to find Sylvia sprawled across the floor, unconscious.

Vivian picks up the phone and dials for the house doctor immediately.

(The scene fades off as the voice of Vivian drones out.)




Scene 7

Vivian waits outside Sylvia’s room, pacing about nervously. The doctor emerges from the room, closing the door silently behind her. Vivian immediately asks how Sylvia is. The doctor sighs once, hesitating then begins ‘Sylvia’…

(The camera shoots the scene from a further angle where the two figures are only silhouettes)

The voices are muted and Vivian staggers backwards upon hearing what Dr. Elaine has just told her.




Scene 8

Vivian waits at home sternly for Mandy the next day. Mandy ignores her aunt and heads for her room but the aunt starts to have a talk with her.

Unable to tell the truth of the mum’s real condition, Vivian tells Mandy that she needs to come back immediately after school the next day to care for her mum.

Mandy says ‘whatever’ but agrees to.




Scene 9

Mandy goes in a different direction from her friends after school, ready to head home. Her friends stop by to ask her to join them for a movie before leaving. Mandy hesitates (shows that she still has her mum in mind underneath her strong front).

Mandy assumes that Vivian would be home to care for her mum so she takes up her friends offer. She has no idea that Vivian is counting on Mandy to return home so she does not bother to stay home.




Scene 10

In the cinema, Vivian’s missed calls flood the phone. And the calls come one after another. Mandy is aware of it but she ignores the caller.

At the end of the movie, Mandy feels bad for neglecting her sick mum and she enters a flower shop to buy a bouquet for her sick mum. That is when she finally picks up Vivian’s call.

Vivian talks through and the words are barely comprehensible. But Mandy manages to make out the words that her mum is dead.

Mandy drops the chosen bouquet of flowers and runs home immediately.




Scene 11

Back at the house, Vivian is waiting outside the gate for Mandy to return home. Mandy realizes what the situation is about and she tears. Vivian scolds Mandy and says she doesn’t deserve to be Sylvia’s daughter.

Vivian slaps Mandy and walks away.

(The scene is in slow motion then)




Scene 12(part credit)

Mandy sits in her room and flips through her toddler pictures, where her mum is still alive and well.

(The scene switches between the scene of her mum’s coffin being lowered into the grave on a rainy day and the scene of the daughter in her room with memories in her head.)

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