2013 Post 6- Group Work

I now have a better understanding of how to write a script and so my group and I have selected from our loglines which short film we will develop.

Our chosen logline: 'While the rest of the world begins to lose their memories. A sole teenager starts to learn things about the world that they had never dreamed of'

Firstly, my group and I chose this as our logline to develop as it appeared the least complicated to film. The main character is a teenager, a demographic that my group and I can relate to and portray with relative ease; using locations and costumes that we are familiar with as we can understand the environment they are placed within.



Drama encompasses a mixture of emotions

We also believed the logline to be a good concept with the potential for adding subtle hidden symbols/meanings; we can be more creative and inventive when imagining how to film people losing their memories, and the consequences of this.

We have decided that our short film would best be suited in the Drama genre, as this would highlight the serious nature of the world losing their memories and dramatise the main character's isolation.



The beats for our logline:
Beat 1: Environment introduced as an university dorm room
Beat 2: Main character introduced
Beat 3: Main character experiences newfound ability
Beat 4: Main character tries to ignore problem/ability
Beat 5: After gaining people's memories main character hurts himself trying to ignore them
Beat 6: Main character almost defeated by the absorption of memories
Beat 7: Main character rejected when trying to solve problem by letting people know
Beat 8: Writing down people's memories is the main character's solution

My group and I also created a mind-map for our initial idea, this helped us to gain a better understanding of our film by planning in smaller sections