James is contemplating leaving his hometown after facing various failures and setbacks in his life and career. While sitting at a beach, he meets Josh and tells him about his past, including getting fired from his job and overhearing his family favoring his brother. Seven months later though, James finds new success and happiness in his career as a cinematographer.

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Concepts and Ideas
A christian short film loosely based on the film The Encounter (2010). The basis of it follows a
boy and a girl who on the first day of college. During lunch they help a boy who is bullied by
three people for his weird clothes. Later they meet the boys parents and they start to have a
conversation about modern day problems.
Equilibrium
Two friends (Alice and Alex) meet up after they enroll in college, they hang around outside of a
church and talk about the last days of school and how happy they are leaving it behind and one
the friend reveals that they might be leaving the town because of . They see a boy being bullied
and help him, he invites them to his parents house.
Disequilibrium
When they arrive at his parents house, the electricity goes out and they would have to resort to
using candles, phones and flashlights. Whilst everyone is panicking they all reveal all their
deepest secrets that alex and Alice never told each other. The parents turn out to be The holy
Trinity ( Father son and the holy ghost).
New Equilibrium
The two people find peace with their problems. The lights come back and they leave the house.
Alex enters university and he finds Alice there.
Audience
Teenagers aged 15-19, boys and girls who are likely christians and atheist. They would likely
live in large cities as well as
Binary opposition
The main binary opposition would be trust and betrayal, this wouldn’t be the main binary
because the characters would feel varies emotions as they explore how deep their friendship
goes and their personal lives. Good and evil is explored through as they ask the trinity their
point of view on the world and what they have done to help it.
Mise en scene
Locations: House, Church, Football field, Park, Street corner, Bedroom.
Types of shots: Medium shot, close up, Extreme close up, long shot, Low angle, Over the
shoulder shot (180 degree), Establishing shot, Panning shot, Movement shot.
Costumes: T shirts, Jeans, Ties, school uniform, suits, Causal clothes and causal clothes.
Props: Bible, mobile phone, backpack, pen paper, flashlights, plastic cups.

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Advantages: The advantages of making this film is that most of the important scenes will be
done inside such as the scenes Alice and Alex meet the parents. The other advantage is that
it's a short film that's based around a christian topic and it’s very new because it’s never been
done before. The props will be easy to get and the shot’s will be easy to perform.
Disadvantage: Getting the actors will be hard because they can drop out unexpectedly. The
short film might be longer than 10 minutes. It will likely end up being roughly 20-45 minutes
because of the content the script will have; taking this to account this means that the production
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Story: James is sat on a bench on a beach as he reminiscing on his past in the evening.
Suddenly a person is sat next to him appears. Josh appears next to him and they talk about his
victories and failures.
Equilibrium:
James is at a beach enjoying the evening sunset, he decides to sit down as he contemplates
leaving the town. Meets a person and they start talking about his past and why he is leaving.
Dis-equilibrium:
James explains that he got bored of his nine to five job as runner for a TV company and how his
family keeps isolating him and only inviting him to gatherings. He is seen as embarrassing and
he is notorious for not being on time and failing at everything he does. One day he got fired for
not meeting an important deadlines. He explains that he did go for several job interviews and all
of them haven’t been successful. He end ups working at as fast food restaurant as cleaner. Five
weeks into his job one of the workers invites him to a party as his way of doing a great job at his
job. He finds out that the party he goes to is his brother's birthday. He overhears his parents
talking about his brother and it end he starts crying.
New-equilibrium:
The whole time Josh was his tenacity and hope personified. Seven months later he becomes a
cinematographer at new tv company and he finds happiness and success with his job.
Audience:

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Males and females aged 20-35. The geo demographic of the audience would be in large
cities and small towns. They would be finishing university and they would be working full time in
jobs as a way of making a living. The socio-economic grouping of this audience is D-C1. The
psychographics are aspires and successors as they have life goals and targets to achieve in
life.
Binary opposition:
The conventional binary opposition of drama is mainly hope and despair. In the beginning he
has lost all hope and is despair. The other binary opposition is successes and failure. The
brother is seen as the successful son in the family whilst James is seen as the failure causing
him to be an outcast of the family.
Mise en scene
Location: House, beach, Office, apartment, empty street.
Types of shot: Medium shot, Long shot, dolly zoom, low angle, high angle,establishing shot, 2
shot, close up, extreme closeup, panning and moving shot.
Props: pen, journal, mobile phone, scarf, glasses, watch, pocket watch.
Advantages: The story will be relatable as the audience will understand the character’s
environment and emotion. The majority of the props are easy to get and they will be cheap.
Given the time of the year natural light won’t be a problem because it isn’t as bright as it is in
summer.
Disadvantage: the problem is that the weather will be cold and that we will have to shoot the
majority of the scenes during afternoon. The sun goes down around 3 pm making it time
constraining. Some of the props like a pocketwatch may need to be ordered during pre
production because they might take weeks or the worst months to arrive and it maybe
expensive.