Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Short film proposal

Story-
My short film idea is to include 2 actors at the most and will be told from a multi strand point of view as my idea will include 2 story's with each of the actors but with the same story line, so the same message is being given off in both of the actors scenario's. My story line will follow in a linear way as my idea for a story line will not include any sort of flash back's and when I did a survey, the majority of the class said they preferred it in a linear way. This will not include any voice overs or narrative structures as I am aiming to tell the story by only actions and facial expressions. My idea will include a open ending so that it leaves the audience wondering what would happen if the clip was longer. My idea for the short story is to have two friends that both act normal and casual together when they are in each others company and act as if they know everything about each other but then the secret behind my story line is that they both have secret identity's when they aren't among-st each other. For the starting scene I was thinking of having some sort of angle of the shot where the two actors look happy with each other and then they leave each other and go somewhere else. I then was thinking of doing a shot where you can see a actor typing a message on a phone saying " what you doing tonight " from one of the actors and then moving the shot to the other actor of them receiving it and then replying with "nothing" and then the person replying in the same shot with "same". My idea then was too then take separate shots of both actors leaving and going to do some sort of passion that they are both hiding from each other almost like them both having a secret identity. Another shot of them both separate doing there passion and then as they finish there passion I was thinking of cutting that shot of with an effect of dimming out the shot some how and then the final shot of them back together the next day going back to how they was not having a clue about what they was doing last night. I like the idea that I have made my idea a realist structure so that people can maybe relate to it as it could happen.

Content-
I was thinking of including the effect of cross cutting to show the two actors doing different things but at the same time so that the story is told in a multi strand structure. I then thought I could include a split screen aswell if I wanted to show them both at the same time just so that both of the actors story's get across at the same time. I was also thinking of using a black and white theme when the actors are both together so that it conveys they aren't secretly happy as they are both hiding secrets from one and other and then when they split of the color kicks in to show them both being happy and to convey a positive sort of  mood to the short film and then end the short clip with how it started with the black and white effect to show that this is a repetitive cycle.

Soundtrack-
I was thinking of using music in my short film. Using different types of music tones to convey the positive times of both actors and negative times of them. I will be using non diegetic sounds as the music being played cannot be physically seen and I haven't really thought about including any sound effects.

Who is the audience?-
The audience is aimed at 12A so will not be including any swearing, violence, weapons, drugs or anything that would not normally be included in a 12A.

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