Short film

production

meetingMegan Saunders- 8032 and Ella

Bamford- 8237This document helps to outline the short film ideas that we have created. This includes loglines, character profiles and

brief narrative.

Short film production meeting

Central ideas Separation from reality so living a façade The protagonist is living a double life; they are

portraying themselves carefully through social media and the post statuses and pictures on Facebook that shows them being productive.

This film is based around the addiction of social media within young people.

Character profile Name; Sophia 18 years old, first year at university Stereotypical fit and healthy girl Lives a perfect life on social media but in reality she’s

not getting up to what she says she is.

Together we decided to name our group “the façade”. When going into this in more detail we created the logline of “are we really living or just surviving a façade?”

NarrativeBeginning

Opening is a text to mum reassuring her that she is okay.

Film is centred on Sophia and her life at university. The film will be split screened to show the façade that she is selling through social media compared to how she is actually living.

Middle This is developing the story line of her getting ready

with friends, and she is also getting ready to take drugs before she goes out, as this is commonly what happens.

Throughout the film in the centre of the split screen text messages will appear some being from her mum where she is lying and telling her that she is all fine

and other being her friends influencing her to get on drugs that night.

Climax Sophia goes into room to take drugs, this is when

door closes as developing a drug scene is a sensitive topic so we would rather develop the idea behind closed doors.

After a while you can hear a girl screaming for help behind the closed doors instructing someone to call 999. This helps to symbolise that Sophia has overdosed on drugs and needs immediate attention.

Ending A graphic overlay of the 999 call (frequency wave),

which is presented on the screen, this soon fades out.

The last shot is of a black screen saying our logline.

Opening scene

Throughout film

Text from mum

Reality Life portrayed