Title -
Embers
25 Word Pitch -
The relationship between two friends is put at risk as one seeks
to escape her town and flourish whilst the other lacks ambition.
The genre -
Drama
The Two Main Characters
Millie – Age 21 – Driven quite heavily on the hunger of expanding
her knowledge and life experiences, she wants to know more about the world and
what it has to offer. She stands at 5’4 with a slim/skinny build, an avid
reader of a spectrum of books. As well as this Millie loves her films, a favourite
being ‘Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind’, for its originality and
surrealism.
Sarah – 21 – A life filled with conflict and a fairly underprivileged background summarises Sarah quite well, there is such contrast between Sarah’s life and Millie’s. Sarah stands at 5’5 with a slim build. She loves the cigarette and brew combination right before the start of the day. A favourite film for Sarah would be ‘Snakes on a plane’ (Absolutely loves her high concept films).
The main location(S) -
A few locations that have already crossed my mind whilst walking
around the local areas include the pier, possibly the train station. I would
have the pier being potentially the main ideal location as it sets a particular
mood and captures the mise en scene quite well for the type of scene I would
like to shoot.
After watching 2-3 short films online (Soft, Alone Time and Gift),
reading through various online posts on how to get your cognition's going, I still
couldn’t get the juices flowing! So I went for a walk and finally having broken the mind block I thought to re-watch
one of the short films that I had just watched previous (Alone Time). A brief
summary of ‘Alone Time’ is that it consists of a female protagonist escaping the
monotonous lifestyle she has fell in to, through camping out in the wild with
herself and a camera. This short film gave me a sort of concept of escapism
from the mundane and monotonous life styles some people gradually slip in to
the routine of unknowingly. It stuck with me and I managed to manipulate it
into something that involves two characters and a conflict.
A few extra lines describing the full story -
Millie and Sarah’s relationship deteriorates so much that contact is
futile. Sarah has mistaken Millie’s ambition as a personal attack on her and so
has reacted in a manner of such. Millie is extremely conflicted and anxious of
losing a childhood friend and realistically one of her only friends in the
neighbour. However she knows deep down that a move out into the big city would
be the right decision, ultimately opting to leave and resulting in a positive outcome in every sense, as Sarah eventually just has to accept this and move forward with it. (Finding the new equilibrium).
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