Todorov and storyline

I have decided to use the basic todorov structure as my short sequence fits within this todorov structure. 

Equilibrium-  The short sequence will start by introducing the protagonist in her normal day life. For this I am going to show her room and use mise-en-scene to represent her values and beliefs as well as using a phone call conversation between herself and her father to show why she's in the house on her own and to establish that she's more mature then normal teens her age. 

The antagonist will not be introduced to the characters in depth as I want to focus more on the protagonist. I will show that the antagonist is 'bad' by using dark colored clothes in contrast to her bright bedroom and also show the  scene were he breaks into her house and abducts her. 

Disruption- In my short sequence the disruption will be when the protagonist is locked in a warehouse after been abducted. In this scene I will try and engage the audience more with her emotions of been scared and alone as well as confused. 

This scene will also have a flash back to show why she's been put into the situation that she has. The flash back with be voiced over using the antagonists voice as if he was narrating a scene.

Quest-  In my short sequence I am not showing the quest part of my film, but overall the film will include a quest. The quest will be that the father is informed of his daughter  abduction and return  to England to face his past. It will be a race against time as his daughters life comes into threat from the gangsters. This will highlight my story type of 'The Debt That Must Be Repaid' in terms of seeing the father paying the debt to his enemies. 

Resolution-  This will be a new equilibrium were the father and daughter are finally free to live the lives but the daughter is haunted by her fathers past and can't get over the fact that she was his second option and not his first priority. The new equilibrium will be that the daughter excels in her career but her father looses all her had including her. 

The gangster will return to normal life but there pasts catches up on them and there killed by a rival gang who want revenge. 

I would show the new equilibrium using an epilogue to show the audience what became of the characters.  

To stick within the todorov structure I have incorporated many codes and conventions, for example in the gangster genre the antagonist's past always catches up with them and they end up dead in a shoot out of some kind, therefore by using the deaths of the antagonists in my film I have stuck within the codes and conventions of the gangster genre.

Story line 

Lola is  daughter to wealthy CEO Harrison Smith who works away most of the time leaving Lola to raise herself, because of her upbringing she is more mature then normal sixteen year old's  and thinks she knows how the world works. In reality her life is based on lies inflicted on by her father who made a 'deal with the devil' back before Lola was born. This secret that he's kept from Lola will soon become his future as one night Lola is abducted from the family home in exchange for Harrison's return to England were he must face his past in order to make a future for himself and Lola. 

Harrison arrives back to England were he must race against time to stop mobsters killing Lola who is paying the ultimate punishment for his decisions. Harrison takes his punishment and gives everything he has for the safe return of Lola, the gangsters except his offer and Lola is returned. 

Months after her abduction, Lola is struggling to come to terms with her new life and finds it hard to trust her father who she once thought was the only good person in her world. Lola ultimately can't forgive her father and moves in with her grandparents before excelling at becoming a top lawyer in New York. Her father is left with nothing and must make a new life for himself knowing that he failed his only child. Meanwhile the gangsters are all killed during a shoot out with a rival gang.