This is the updated synopsis for our short film.

1. Synopsis
Male = Leo
Popular Girl = Poppy
Original Girl = Eliza
The main characters include a male and a female: both characters being a part of the
‘popular’ group. The male is waiting at the coffee shop however he receives a prank call
by his friends. The girl sees him at a coffee shop and finds out that he has been stood up
on a date. Because of her big ego, she believes that he’s staged the whole thing to get
her attention so she goes over to him and starts a conversation and flirts with him. Out
of politeness, he buys her a drink but she thinks it’s him flirting back. The original girl
didn’t stand him up, she was actually late to the date but she sees them together, which
leads to her becoming angry. The next day in front of their friends the ‘popular girl’ is
flirting with him more than usual and acting like she thinks she’s his girlfriend. The
original girl sees it all and leads to her becoming jealous and angry. He asks to talk to her
in private and explains that he’s uncomfortable so she reveals that she knows he
‘staged’ being stood up just to get her attention and that he’s in love with her. He
denies it all and tells her to leave him alone from now on. The girl acts like she is
unaffected by the rejection and she walks away however she is secretly angry because
no one has ever rejected her before (audience doesn’t see this). Everything for him goes
‘back to normal’ (montage – at school, group of friends, male walking to his house and
Facebook messages) but that evening on his way to work he gets a phone call from an
anonymous number but instead of speaking there is a song being played down the line.
He thinks it’s either spam or a prank call so he ends it and forgets about it. He also
receives notes/CD disk in his locker from an anonymous person and a picture of himself.
On his way to work again that night he gets a phone call which is the same as the first
one but he still believes it’s just a prank from his friends. That night at work he’s asked
to lock up. Just before he’s about to leave the stereo turns on, playing a random song.
He can’t find the remote for the stereo so he goes to the cupboard where the system is
run from to turn the whole thing off manually but as he’s about to, the song changes to
the one he’d been hearing through the phone calls, leaving him confused and a little
unnerved. He walks out of the room to see all of the lights off apart from one at the
opposite end of the room where she is standing under it and one above where he is
standing. As she starts walking towards him, the song’s chorus starts over and by the
time she reaches him, she pauses the music and whispers the last line of the chorus in a
monotone. The whole screen then just goes back and the credits roll.