Research

As the focus of our opening sequence is depression and abuse, we looked at several charities to help us develop and understand the characters and storyline:

The Mood Foundation is a charity set up by a former sufferer of depression, to try and find the best treatment for individual sufferers, and to help them pay for it. Mood has many facts and statistics about depression on its homepage, and we were able to use them to help us develop our film and main character.

Mind exists to help people deal with their mental health problems. It helped us develop our story and characters by providing information about charities.

Women's Aid is centered on domestic violence and the protection of women and children living with abusers.

Beat is focused on eating disorders - a major aspect of Sophie's depression.

The information we learned from all these charities was very helpful in developing our storyline and the character of Sophie.