The document provides details about a short film project created by a group of students. It includes: - A synopsis that outlines the plot involving a mother who encounters a mystery from her past when she recognizes a familiar face. - Character descriptions of the four main characters: Kimmy, Naomi, Chris, and Jerome. - Plans to use various real-world locations to develop meanings and attach them to the story. - The genres of thriller, docu-drama, and urban social realism were chosen to capture an ongoing social issue while also adding suspense.

1. Tia, Morgan, Samiat, Melvin, Jeremiah.

2.  Definition: “an outline of the plot of a play, film, book.”
 Here is the synopsis for our short film;
 Innocent mother Naomi encounters a mystery from the past. Whilst on her
way home she recognizes a familiar face. Several meetings then ensue bitter
feelings by an unexpected old flame. Will they…

3.  Name: Kimmy Hus
 Age:12
 Relation: Daughter of Jerome and
Naomi Hus.
 Name: Naomi Hus
 Age: 33
 Relation: the ex of Chris.
 Name: Chris (the kidnapper)
 Age: 32
 Relation: Kimmy’s kidnapper and
an ex partner of Naomi’s.
 Name: Jerome Hus
 Age: 34
 Relation: Husband of Naomi’s and
father to Kimmy.
The amount of characters that we are using in our film is very limited as we only have
4 characters, which is fairly average for the genre of short film.

4.  We plan on using quite a few different locations in order to develop and attach
different meanings with the variety of settings. Therefore we plan on using;
 An actual house
 Parks
 Nunhead area
 A bus station/stop
 Feminist library building
 As we go on and develop our film further, we would understand that the location
we would be using would need to change in order to fit the criteria that we had
set for ourselves.

5.  Considering that the genre for our film is ‘short film’ we have had come up
with a sub-genre or hybrid genre to go with. With that in mind we decided to
go for;
 Thriller
 Docu-drama
 Urban/social-reaslism
 This was because we wanted to capture an on going issue within today’s
society, yet also wanted to give an edge to it by making it a thriller which
would thus broaden our target audience.

6.  The narrative my group and I have decided to use is Todorov’s theory equilibrium
which explains the 5 different stages;
 1. State of equilibrium
 2. Disruption of equilibrium
 3. Recognition of disruption
 4. Attempt to repair the disruption
 5. Reinstatement of an equilibrium
 We believe that this is the best fitting narrative for our short film as it has an
easy layout for us to follow and also we established that we use the steps
unintentionally knowing it.

7.  The themes that we use within our short film come from many different
aspects of it. we had chosen to stick to having our film having low lighting as
a theme as it enables our target audience to understand and relate it to other
thriller films have low/dark lighting for most part.
 Another theme that we used was keeping the scenes within an urban setting,
which gave us the capability of sustaining a more social realistic feel as we
wanted our main demographics for our target audience to fell like they could
relate to the sort of areas/locations that we had used in our short film.

8.  Bearing in mind that our main sub-genre is thriller, we had to deliberate and
research into thriller films and the key iconographies shown within them.
This would allow us to come up with more of a visualisation for our own short
film in order to develop our plotlines.
 Therefore we summarised a few mise-en-scene iconographies;
 Low key lighting
 Dark and frumpy clothing for certain characters (e.g. gloves and hoodie for
Chris as their identity should be kept secret)
 Locations like said in one of the previous slides
 Confined spacing and shadows