my short film about anxiety, mushrooms and wack ass hoes

-Mushrooms in dreams represent emotional/physical distress. They also grow in wet humid and dark places- metaphor for emotions Brief Plan or Ideas or just pure bs Teacher calls out students name and student awakes from her sleep on the desk. When she realises she fell asleep in school her cheeks become red and the student apologises. Her leg begins to bounce as she feels the stares of her classmates grow and their whispers become louder. A fisheye lens is used on classmates faces to amplify her social anxiety. Classmates voices become distorted and indistinguishable. The camera zooms in to her face as she becomes more distressed and her breathing starts to increase. We also hear the beating of her heart increase accompanied by ominous non diegetic music. We see mushrooms begin to rip through her skin and she tries to cover them with her sleeves from her perspective. She grabs her bag and runs out of class, it then cuts to the bathroom where she splashes her face with water. When she looks into the mirror, the lighting switches to red as she sees her body being consumed by mushrooms. She tries closing her eyes but the pain becomes exruciatingly real until someone walks in the bathroom. She grabs her bag and walks out of the door. The door cuts to another door (scene 2) where the bell goes and students rush through the corridor for lunch time. As her friends gather outside, she tries to socialise with them but finds herself being ignored. A cloud of grey comes over and the saturation is decreased as she finds herself invisible to her friends. Their voices become muffled, distorted and distant and the mushrooms start to rip through her skin again. She decides shes had enough and tries to rip them out of her skin but as she screams in agony all that is heard is white noise. The scene cuts to black but the white noise continues... (not finished)

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