Jordan Just Needs to Relax

A group of friends is forced to confront their own fears and anxieties after they encounter a mysterious mountain-man and a folkloric forest creature on a ‘relaxing’ vacation in the woods.

Jordan Just Needs To Relax begins with two friends, Max and Emma, driving their third catatonic friend, Jordan, to a cabin in the woods to help them relax and get away from the stresses of their life. Jordan, overwhelmed with the stresses of his daily life, resorts to this catatonic state of inaction in order to help cope with their paralyzing anxieties. Max, a long-time friend of Jordan, has seen Jordan resort to this state before and feels he has a good understanding of how to wake Jordan from this state - by taking him out into nature to ‘relax’. Emma, Max’s girlfriend and a newer friend of Jordan’s, has never seen Jordan in this state before. She thinks Jordan is avoiding his fears and taking advantage of Max.

Jordan Just Needs to Relax will stylistically place the viewer in an emotional state that parallels Jordan’s own feelings of anxiety and impending doom. As the trio of friends explore their own ideas on self-help, the world we once knew will slowly unravel, challenging the trio’s beliefs and worldview. We will use a lot of dream sequence scenes as well as hallucinations as scenes play out from our protagonist's perspective. Scenes where his anxieties play out in front of him and our audience as real. This will leave our audience with moments of not being sure what is real or not which will create and build anxiety and tension for our audience as they unravel the story and our characters. Jordan Just Needs to Relax will also shift back and forth from these grounded, mumbly, conversational scenes to scenes of supernatural and folklore that contrast each other in genre but also represent the two sides of mental health. This grounded world and this heightened world that will feel like someone who is on the verge of an anxiety attack versus them feeling normal. We believe this will represent ourselves and people with mental health issues by showing these different feelings and worlds we experience the world in. It’s common to feel like different people where one day running an errand is simple and the next - for whatever reason - is some impossible task.