Treatment – Reema, Phillip, Yasmin
The synopsis of our short film is based on forced marriage,
which begins with a young Asian girl who is being forced to marry another man
after getting caught with her boyfriend. The opening scene of the film will be
of the girl getting prepped for the wedding, but the emotions of her face
connote sadness. Her boyfriend is doing everything he can to get in contact
with his girlfriend but fails, he then gets up and runs to look for her. The
scene then changes back to the bride getting ready, when her mum walks through,
hugs her and whispers into her ear ‘You have to do this, I’m sorry’, kisses her
on the cheek and walks out the room. This scene will show the viewers that it’s
a forced marriage. The bride and family leave to go to the venue which after
her boyfriend runs past, oblivious to the fact that his girlfriend is getting
married in there. The scene then changes to inside the wedding hall, where it’s
a reverse shot of her and the groom. The groom seems happy whilst she still
seems sad. This scene then shows that the wedding goes on without any
interruption. The next scene will show her boyfriend barging through the doors
to see the wedding hall empty, when he realises he’s too late. Upset, he sits
down, head down in hands and cries. The scene then fades to the newly wedded
couple entering their home, and the bride sitting in the room with everyone
crowding around, adoring her. They all leave for her to get changed, and as she
removes her shawl , it is revealed that she is pregnant with her boyfriend and
that its just her little secret. Our short film will also include many black
and white flashbacks of her and boyfriend and some scenes of when they get
caught.
The theme of our short film is based around the genre of a
sad/love story as it involves both sad factors of a film as well as those
factors of a love story. Our main audience is teenagers or the age range of
16-25, as some teenagers may be able to relate to it or may have even seen this
happen to people that they know of.
The professional films which inspired me for the
storyline/shots/cuts/edits etc. Were the following:
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Dhadhkan-Dulhe ka sehra
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Future shorts – Occupied
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Future shorts- Losers
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Audience
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Length
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Logistics and feasibility- in terms of
equipment, locations, actors.
Audience: teenagers, main characters are teenager, broad
audience. Can appeal to anyone.
Length from 3-5min
Locations: Pavilion. Wedding venue.
ACTORS:
Main: BRIDE: Ayesha
BOYFRIEND: Kay GROOM: Ali BRIDES
PARENTS: Ameena and Afzal GROOMS PARENTS: Jamal and Dheegar. MAKEUP ARTIST:
Tazrin
The Audience for our short film will be mainly teenagers, as
our characters are teenagers. Also, the problem that we will show in the film
is mainly related to the teenagers, because this what happens among today's
young people. The message can appeal to anyone, not looking at ethnicity, age
or gender, even if it's mainly aimed for teenagers, because we planning to made
a short film for broad audience.
The length of our short film will be from 3 to 5 minutes
long as we will do our best to put as many details as possible to the film
within this short time, to make sure that audience clearly understand the
message.
Location that we decided to have will be Leyton pavilion and
wedding venue. Leyton pavilion will be
used as a place for social meetings, where the couple will have chance to see
each other. And wedding venue, because one of our scenes will be about wedding.
We are planning to have 5 roles which include 8 characters.
