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Final Idea Outline

James is farming, and receives a notification on his Futuristic contact lens that he has received a match on dreamland dating. He sits down and says: ”Alexa, make video call”. Alexa replies ”how would you like to look today?” and James customizes his appearance to the person he aspires to look like. He answers the call to a beautiful woman. James delivers a scripted speech and hides the fact he is truly overwhelmed by the girl he is speaking to. Before they could finish their call, James' father comes into the room, and James turns the off the 'video call'. James did not plan to actually meet Josie, but after his father calls him a quitter and sates that he never finishes anything, he decides to prove him wrong and actually go on the date. On the way to the meet location, James meet a woman on the train and coincidentally sits next to her. Their conversation expands to a dialogue where they eventually talk about their true emotions and problems with themselves. Unfo...

To what extent do aesthetic qualities contribute to the impact of your chosen film [Pan's Labyrinth]?

The way Guillermo Del Toro's expressed his vision of Pan's Labyrinth showed the director's ability to demonstrate an extensive and diverse range of aesthetic qualities. The commencement of the film plays a monumental part in the structure of Pan's Labyrinth's narrative. The film opens with an elevating dolly shot, which is framed to show only Ofelia's face as she rests on her on a dirty floor. As the scene acts as the birth of the film, this shot introduces the idea of the story as the camera's elevation represents a rise from the underworld, which acts as the alternate reality in which Ofelia goes through. Moreover, the fact that this shot shows the spectator a dying Ofelia can be interpreted as the rise of the girl rather than her fall: soon in the film, a narrator reveals that Ofelia's true origin is as princess of the underworld, and thus this shot may act as a metaphorical burial (which naturally will be done in the overworked/real world if Ofel...

Initial Idea Outline

Synopsis James Grimmsdottir is a man in his late 20s, lives in a farm outside of London; His life had been mostly consisted of working tirelessly on his father's farm during the day. He does not enjoy it , thus it is understandable that when it gets dark, James spends his after hours on  Dreamland Dating -  a futuristic / dystopian dating software that allows users to proxy friends and partners (This site allows people to pick a category before reading one of many scripts which create a synthetic relationship between two people).  James' passion had formed from his mothers profession into computing, a thing which consumed her and made her leave her family to pursue a computing job - leading to James' inexperience in dating. Whilst browsing on Dreamland Dating during   one of his usual after-work session, James matches with a beautiful girl, called Josie. Josie comes from a completely different background - Josie lives in central London, is one of 8 children, and ...

Developing my film world

Developing Characters

A man discoveries he is heir to billions of dollars from an uncharted side of his family, but to do this, he has to go through the members of his family - who are willing to fight for the prize. protagonist (Name): Angel 'Smith' (Undecided surname) Job: Born to a lower class family, Angel is forced to join a private security firm at a young age, where he is trained to become their most elite operative. aspiration : To treat his family's untreatable disease, which his parents have but he is not sure wether he or his younger brother also carry the disease. age : 22 barriers : - Michael tries to acquire the money in secrecy, behind the backs of his friends, family and work. - Michael time is running out, as he's parents must be treated soon otherwise they will die. - Michael has to make moral decision between being a man of the law or stealing to gain the money to save his family. family : His parents have a rare disease, which is discovered at the ages of 2...

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A local news story: A disabled London man is evicted from his childhood home, and decides seek revenge from the government before discovering he has had his memories of the period implanted, and goes to after the truth. An international news story: A man blamed for an act of terrorism is on the run, before finding out he has multiple personality disorder and discovering he was the shooter.   An national news story: A deceased travellers body is returned to her parents, and 50 years after her burial she awakes from a coma underground and makes her way out to the world. A story about someone in your family either from the past or the present: A young partisan follows his anti-nazi beliefs fighting back before finding out his brother is an SS soldier. A story from one of your social media film: A man has his memories lost in a car accident and persues trying ot get them back, up until he discovers some memories are better forgotten. A...

Mindmapping

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