Screenplay idea for my coursework- The Pressures of Friendship

I intend to do a screenplay for my coursework with a narrative which portrays a conflict between two central characters.

The basic story is two characters that are the human embodiment's of good and evil and the evil character is trying to corrupt the good character. Throughout the film the evil character will be tempting the good character to do bad things like smoking, drinking and stealing and will slowly corrupt the good character to becoming evil like them. The way I am going to show the good and bad characters is by having the good character dressed in all white and the bad character dressed in all black and I will show the corruption of the good character by the good character slowly wearing more darker clothes. The names of the characters are Evangeline and Malum. I have chosen Evangeline for the Good character because the name Evangeline translates to "good news" in Greek and I have chosen the name Malum for the Bad character because it translates to "evil" in Latin.

Name Ideas

Corruption
The Corruption of the Innocent
The Pressures of Friendship
The Pressures of Society
No Ones Just Good
Grey
Friends Don't Pressure
Friendships Can Kill

Final Name
The Pressures of Friendship

The shorts films that I am going to be referring to are all loosely related to my story idea:

Meshes in the Afternoon (Deren, US, 1946)
When the Day Breaks (Forbis/Tilby, Canada, 1999)
High Maintenance (Van, Germany, 2006)
Connect (Abrahams, UK, 2010)
Night Fishing (Park, South Korea, 2011)
Curfew (Christensen, US, 2012)

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