Nightmare
by
(Tin Lay Zin)
(2D)
My 1-Sentence Summary here – A 17-years old girl had been duped and trafficked because of the poverty.
EXERCISE 1 (Grade 15% )
My Blog: (http://tinlayzin.blogspot.sg/)
My Email: (tinlayzin@hotmail.com)
Deadline: 1 Feb 2013
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
TITLE: Nightmare
GENRE: (tragedy/crime/drama)
TARGET AUDIENCE: (Teenage to adult, 18 year old and onwards)
THE DOMINANT CULTURAL / SOCIAL ISSUE FEATURED IN MY WORK IS:
After I read that documentary of true crime story, all of victims came from weird or poor family that leads them to do something or wrong thinking to do because of the poverty. Almost all trafficked victims are young people who want a better future for their struggling families, but they are vulnerable to exploitation because they are trusting, not prepared for life in a foreign country, and have limited employment. Why the people treated bad to other people especially weak people? Are they lacking of love and concern, that what came into my mind. Sometime, we trust a lot the person who will give the good chance for the life. We shouldn’t believe anybody like friends even relatives because we don’t know the trick of the human beings when we are not getting the full knowledge of the society.
LOGLINE:
A teenage girl who is struggle in poor family receives a job from her friend. But she doesn’t about her fortune will be worst after she gets that job.
SYNOPSIS:
A 17 years old girl, who is the eldest from the poor family, wants to support her family .One day she persuades the broker to get a well-paying job. But she had been duped and escorted to the border of Myanmar’s with China. But one day she can ran and escape from the border and she faces a lot of difficulties on the way back to her home.
Key Character
Thazin, a 17-year-old Burmese girl who is the ordinary and charming girl had been running poorly in the past few years. There are a lot of family members in her family. As she is the eldest child of her parents, she gave up her study when she was 12 years old because of her family poor condition. Thazin wants money to support her family so she is looking for a job. Meanwhile she could find a job from her friend. As she never dreamt before that the worse nightmare is coming.
CHARACTER PROFILES
CHARACTER LIST (All characters)
Key Character – Thazin is a Burmese girl, who is an ordinary girl from a poor family. She has a lot of family members and she struggles for her and her family by her own.
Villain (if any) – the broker
Supporting Character – her friend
CHARACTER BIO OF KEY CHARACTER
Thazin quitted the school when she was 12 years old and find a well-paying job for her life after a few year due to her family condition.
Work as a worker in the farm and maid in the city of Myanmar before she faced the nightmare of her life.
RESEARCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/dec/24/women-burma-human-trafficking
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Burma.htm
http://wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf/updatehttp://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/trafficking/ht-asia-pacific/ht-burma.html
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/3705-brides-to-china-top-govt-human-trafficking-list.html
REFLECTION PAPER
(a reflection is a write-up on how you derived your own story concept and idea(s) from research & brainstorm done – 2 to 3 para, double spaced)
I worte this story based on one of the survivor of the human trafficking in Myanmar, but I made my own twist on that story.
Myanmar as Burma is a source and transit country for human trafficking. Burma’s military regime is the main perpetrator of human trafficking abuses both within the country and abroad. Today in Yangon, a group of the people had the opportunity to continue a discussion with World Vision on how Uncharted can be a part of the movement to fight human trafficking in Myanmar.
Why I choose about human trafficking story, we can make that story to the screen play has been transmitting on TV to improve awareness of human trafficking through all over the world.
3 ACT STRUCTURE: (in point form below)
ACT1 SETUP
ACT2 CONFRONTATION
ACT3 RESOLUTION
Key Character(s): Thazin wants to support her family by well-paid job. Later she can find a job as a worker at the border of Myanmar’s with China. Without knowing, she will get force to be married unknown person who is different nationality by the broker.
Confrontation: After Thazin leave her home town, she faces the humiliation of the unknown people at the place far away from her home town.
Climax (Grand Finale):
Soon found out that the way how can she escaped after five days tortured in the unknown place.
Resolution: Thazin decides she will be back home whatever she faces on the way back her home.
MOTIVE:
Tried to escape from the unknown people.
TURNING POINT:
The broker forced to marry to the Chinese man by threating to her.
MOTIVE RESOLVED?
Yes.
Conflict/Obstacles:
Struggling Beaten. Tortured. Starved. Humiliated.
Conflict/Obstacles: At the immigration of the borderline between Myanmar and China, she sent to Immigration prison for a year.
Moral of the Story if any:
TREATMENT / STORYLINE & STORYBOARD
Thazin, a 17-year-old Burmese girl had been running for the past few years in Myanmar was doing so poorly. There are a lot of family members in her family. She gave up her study when she was 12 years old because of her family poor condition. So she had the responsibility of her family as she is the eldest child of her parents, Thazin wanted money to support her family. So she was looking for a job to struggle her life.
Meanwhile, her friend introduced Thazin to the strange person as the broker. The broker persuaded to her as she will get a well-paying work in the textile shop at the town of the borderline between Myanmar and China. When she decided to work the job from the broker, she left her home town together with the broker, Htet Htet. But she had been duped. After taking food and drink offered to her by the broker, Thazin fell asleep – and woke up to discover she had been smuggled into China. On arriving in China, all three were forced to marry men they’d never set eyes on before: farmers, construction workers and labourers, typical of many who, after decades of a Chinese one-child policy and a cultural preference for male offspring, are unable to find a Chinese bride, let alone pay her dowry.
Thazin cried and begged the brokers to let her go when she found out what was happening to her - but she couldn't escape from the stranger who had paid to marry her. The hepless young girl had nowhere else to go but to return back to her home. But the traffickers, having already struck a deal and received some advance money, tried to force Thazin to accept her marriage.
Suddenly she had been locked up the tiny room which is dark and cold. She had beaten, Tortured, starved, humiliated by the Chinese men and they asked her “Will you marry me?” Since she argued, they were continuous beating.
But one day, the Chinese man picked her up to somewhere around the market. At that time, she decided and tried to run whatever she faces even she died from the beasts. So she ran and escaped from the Chinese man who bought me from a broker to be his wife when he went to the toilet one day. She ran and ran to get the place as safe from the people who are tortured and humiliated.
Finally she found the shop name which is written by the Myanmar Language in the market. She asked the shop owner who is half Chinese and half Myanmar to help her and bring back her to the immigration. At the immigration of the borderline between Myanmar and China, she sent to Immigration prison for a year. Eventually visited by a Myanmar Embassy official Thazin was deported home. The drama ends with Thazin’s reunification with his family, but reintegration back home is difficult.
At the end of the drama the teenagers engage their audience with messages which encourage safe migration, learning about cultural differences, foreign languages, and legal documentation to protect people from exploitation.
