The dialog will be the most important aspect of my short film as it is all based on her thoughts that we hear through voiceover. I want my script to be flexible and almost improvised. However, I have topics I aim for my main character to talk about. I believe it will add to the naturalism and be more believable if it is slightly improvised.
These are some of the topics I would like my main character to touch on:
- What she's wearing - 'Am I too dressed up', 'He did say he liked me in grey', 'I hope my makeup hasn't smudged'
- Where he is - 'What could he be doing', 'I hope he turns up before the adverts end'
- The surroundings - 'Why are adverts always so long', 'That girl over there has such nice hair', 'These seats are so uncomfortable', 'I'm going to have eaten all this popcorn before he gets here'
- Realising he's not turned up - 'Why though? What did I do?' 'He must've got caught in traffic', I didn't even want to see this film'
- Flashback - 'I thought our last date went well'
- Getting the text - 'What does he have to say for himself', 'Where am I, is he joking'
- When she's walking out & see's him - 'This cant be real', 'He could've gone somewhere else', 'Do I hide', 'Do I go over there'
Again with stage directions, I would ideally like the stage directions to look really natural. My main character will walk in the cinema - we will not see this. The first we see of the main character will a still shot of all the seats and her walking up the stairs. We'll watch her find her seat and look around whilst doing so. Once she's found her seat no directions are really necessary as I would like it to be mainly focussed on speech and little gestures and facial expressions. These will fit with the dialog.
The plot of my film is simple. It is a film of a girl going on a second date. She turns up alone and awaits the arrival of her date. We watch her thought process as she doubts his arrival. The plot twist is he doesn't turn up and she sees him with another girl.
No comments:
Post a Comment