Treatment

Treatment

Genre:

Romantic comedy

Short summary:

This short film shows the journey of an unpopular boy who likes a popular girl. It shows them separately in their everyday lives to show the contrast between the two characters. One day she drops a comic book (which he is majorly into), he picks it up and gives it to her and this is when their love story begins. He offers to take her to get a new comic coming out. They meet up and the montage starts, showing them getting along and slowly starting to fall for each other. He finally pulls up enough courage to invite her to his house, she sees her scarf in his room and gets freaked out and leaves. He runs out in tears trying to find her when he sees a geeky girl in the distance.

Which professional film inspired you and how:

I think the main professional film that has inspired our idea is the Shrek film, particularly the Shrek and Fiona montage of them slowly but surely falling in love. The use of camera angles and how they were used were very effective. For example, the use of the long shot shows both Shrek and Fiona in their individual environments to show the difference in their lifestyles. Also, the use of the shot reverse shot shows them having a conversation for the first time and the use of the extreme close up shows their emotions and facial expressions. The romantic music that plays during the montage implies they are falling in love as the title suggests ‘Accidentally falling in love’ by Counting Crows.

What makes your idea different?

Our film idea is different as it is very unlikely that you see an unpopular boy with a popular girl so to show them getting along is unusual. Secondly, this gives hope to other geeky boys out there who like a girl who is out of their league, this may give them the confidence to talk to someone they wouldn’t normally speak to. Another thing that makes our idea different is that we normally see a happy ending and after the montage of them getting along, the audience start to believe that the unpopular boy will get with the popular girl. The audience get emotionally involved and just want him to be happy, so almost urge him on. However, this does not happen. Unfortunately the unpopular boy does not get with the popular girl, which is what will probably happen in real life, so our story line is both realistic and believable.

Audience:

Our short film is primarily targeted at individuals who enjoy rom coms, but also at young individuals at college/school who have teenage crushes.

Length:

The length of our short film will be no longer than 5 minutes.

Logistics and feasibility:

Our short film will include three characters, an unpopular boy, a popular girl and a geeky girl. We will hold auditions and ask around for people interested to play these roles. We will be using two props, a comic book and a scarf. The scarf will be provided by one of our group members and the comic book will need to be brought either online or from a comic book store.

Any ethical issues:

The only ethical issue that may arise is if our actors are under the age of 18, in that case we will need to ask for parental permission to film the child. The locations we are going to use are a library, train station (Stratford) and a retail store changing room (Westfield Top Man). We may need to ask for permission to film in these locations but this can easily be done with a letter from college and a phone call.

Where your film would be screened/distributed:

YouTube