Brief Sypnosis Pitch

As a group, we have all played an equal role in putting forward ideas and discussing what we feel would or wouldn't work for a successful short film. After much deliberation in and outside of lessons, we decided on a theme, storyline and the characters we want to use.
We decided that our film would fit into the genre of a 'romantic tragedy'. It will entirely consist of the story of a young couple, how they meet, how they fall in love, and how an illness could largely effect their relationship. We plan to portray each of these things through the use of different camera techniques, such as including wide shots of the couple looking alone in a wide, scenic setting to depict their iscolation from the rest of the world, and hopefully making the audience feel as though they are involved in the couple's relationship, and becoming more emotionally attached. We all agreed that drawing this reaction from the audience is the most important thing to achieve from our short film in order for it to be a success.

The film will begin with a shot of the main protagonist, a man who is in a graveyard, reflecting on the time that he met his partner. He will be flicking through a photo album of pictures of the two of them at romantic places such as a beach and next to a lake, which will then fade to a scene of the couple when that picture was taken. However, the troubles in their relationship will then be portrayed, with the impression that the scenes are from his reflective memory, through arguments and scenes of the girl ill in bed. This sudden downfall in the theme, from love to anger, will then turn to sadness as we see the man back in the graveyard next to her gravestone, and then wandering empty streets to highlight his loneliness now she has gone. We hope that this will create deep emotive reactions from the audience as they will sympathise with him after watching the relationship blossom. The film will end with a cliff hanger, as the final shots show the man at a train station, standing close to the platform, and as the train comes the audience are left with the unresolved enigma of whether he jumped or not. We feel that the use of a cliffhanger will be effective as it will stay in the audience's mind, and they will hopefully comtemplate their own perception of the ending after the film has ended.

In terms of our characters, we have based them on 'Summer' played by Zooey Deschanel and 'Tom' played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the film '500 Days of Summer' as we felt they were extremely effective in terms of the audience's abilty to relate to and like them. We have therefore taken this inspiration and applied it, particularly with the appearance and costumes of our own characters as this is also an aspect that we believed enhanced the overall production. The reason for this choice is that, in detailed discussion, we agreed that we wanted characters that weren't completely average and were slightly strange as this would make our short film have a unique and interesting edge to it.