The document outlines a plan for a 7 minute short romantic drama film about a blind date between characters Arun and Rebekah that goes disastrously wrong. It provides details on the treatment, purpose, screening, development, target audience, legal/ethical considerations, character breakdowns, lighting plan, storyboards, budget, production schedule, and includes a sample scene and questions for feedback.

1. THE
BLIND
DATE

2. • Beginning- Anna and Dylan meet up as they haven’t seen each other in ages. While
dating Dylan asks if she has friend who is single as he has a friend called Arun who
wants to start dating again. Anna mentioned their friend Rebekah. Dylan showed
anna what Arun looks like and gave Rebekah a call as they came up with the idea to
set up a blind date.
• Middle- Arun and Rebekah were up for the blind date so Dylan and Anna organed
were they are going to eat and what time they are going to meet up. Rebekah and
Arun meet up for their date they start to get to know each other while waiting for
their food
• End- When their food come Rebekah was eating without any table manners and that
started to annoy Arun as some of her food come out of her mouth and landed on
him. Arun criticized her and she got offended and started giving attitude which than
leaded to an argument and Arun storming out the restaurant.
Summary

3. TREATMENT
• Running time 7mins
• Genre-romance/drama

4. PURPOSE
• The purpose of my short film is to showcase my ability of editing and creating a
film. The benefit from this I can show my audience my skills this will give me the
opportunity to get a feature in the future.
• I done this because dates are always seem to be romantic and nice to watch
however in mine it is very awkward and they do not know when the date is going
to end
• My film is original and is different to media as I watched lots of romantic short
films and I come up with my own idea however from watching different short film
enabled me create my own style of movie and it being different from the one that
are out on YouTube.

5. SCREENING
• If I was to screen my short film it would either be screened on YouTube, or film
festivals. From doing this I could get the opportunity to go to a international
film festival if chosen. Eg London short film festival, Manchester international
festival and Raindance film festival.
• I am creating this short film so it can be produced on channel 4, if my film was
to go to DVD it would be rated either a 12 or 15 as there isn't any swearing,
violence or sexual activity.

6. DEVELOPMENT
• My short film could get developed as if it went viral industries could want to
pay me to turn my short film into a tv series, feature film or even a comic book

7. TARGET AUDIENCE
• My primary audience will be for females from the age from 15-25. My
secondary audience would be for older people from 26-34 who maybe do
online dating. I think females would like my film as they could potentially relate
to having disaster dates or they like watching romantic stuff in general.
• The social grade for 15-25 are in the social grade E before Hollyoaks however
after Hollyoaks is the channel 4 news which is targeted at elderly people in
social grade B which more for formal/professional people.

8. LEGAL AND ETHICAL
When creating my film I need to follow the legal requirements such as copyright
I can not play another artist music without their permission if did they have the
right to either remove that scene or take it off YouTube completely. I also need
to make sure that I do not copy from another short film as film makers can
report me for plagiarism.
For ethical I need to consider that I do not make any offences towards race and
religion as people could get offended as I am doing a romantic film it is also
important that I do not make any sexual remarks as women could find this
disrespectful. Lastly need to make sure it is appropriate for the audience to
watch.

9. CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

10. ANNA
Anna is good friends with Rebekah and is with Dylan as
they met at Rebekah's birthday party. Anna is from London
and lived in the same area as Rebekah she is a makeup
artist, and is currently living in Birmingham.

11. ARUN
Arun is a fraud investigator from Walsall but is currently
living in Wolverhampton he is looking for a girl he can
bring home to his mother and father as he recently
broken up with his girlfriend .

12. DYLAN
Dylan is a personal trainer from Wolverhampton but
currently lives in Birmingham he is good friends with
Rebekah as they went to the same secondary school but is
friends with Arun as he is dating his cousin.

13. REBEKAH
Rebekah is a PE teacher from London but currently lives in
Wolverhampton. Rebekah is single and is looking for love as she
got cheated on by her ex boyfriend.

14. LIGHTING PLAN
• For my lighting plan I will have a candle light lit in the middle of them during
the date.
Example of how I want my dating
scene to look like

15. STORYBOARDS

16. BUDGET

17. PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

18. SAMPLE SCENE
• https://youtu.be/8urK_zDOlvI

19. SET DESIGN
• Mise en scene-

20. COSTUME

21. THANKS FOR LISTENING ANY
QUESTIONS

22. SURVEY
• https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/X6L9GZD