2. Short
film
producti
on
meetingMegan Saunders- 8032 and Ella
Bamford- 8237
This document helps to outline the short film ideas that
we have created. This includes loglines, character profiles
and brief narrative.
3. Short film production meeting
Central ideas
Separation from reality so living a façade
The protagonist is living a double life; they are
portraying themselves carefully through social
media and the post statuses and pictures on
Facebook that shows them being productive.
This film is based around the addiction of social
media within young people.
Character profile
Name; Sophia
18 years old, first year at university
Stereotypical fit and healthy girl
Lives a perfect life on social media but in reality
she’s not getting up to what she says she is.
Together we decided to name our group “the façade”.
When going into this in more detail we created the logline
of “are we really living or just surviving a façade?”
Narrative
Beginning
Opening is a text to mum reassuring her that she is
okay.
Film is centred on Sophia and her life at university.
The film will be split screened to show the façade
that she is selling through social media compared to
how she is actually living.
Middle
This is developing the story line of her getting ready
with friends, and she is also getting ready to take
4. drugs before she goes out, as this is commonly what
happens.
Throughout the film in the centre of the split screen
text messages will appear some being from her mum
where she is lying and telling her that she is all fine
and other being her friends influencing her to get on
drugs that night.
Climax
Sophia goes into room to take drugs, this is when
door closes as developing a drug scene is a sensitive
topic so we would rather develop the idea behind
closed doors.
After a while you can hear a girl screaming for help
behind the closed doors instructing someone to call
999. This helps to symbolise that Sophia has
overdosed on drugs and needs immediate attention.
Ending
A graphic overlay of the 999 call (frequency wave),
which is presented on the screen, this soon fades
out.
The last shot is of a black screen saying our
logline.
Opening scene
Text from mum
Reality Life portrayed
