The document provides details about a proposed short film called "Miko" that tells the story of two young Asian girls in love in 1980s Japan. It describes the plot which follows characters Miko and Sarah from their childhood to meeting up in present day after Miko left. It also notes that the film aims to showcase an underrepresented LGBT relationship and promote the filmmaker. Production details like costumes, storyboards, budgets and target audiences are included to pitch the idea.

1. MIKOThe first cut is always the deepest.

2. � TREATMENTNarrative of the movie :
First act – It starts with the first actress sitting on a table then it goes back to 10 years
with flashbacks of two young girls in japan, laughing and having fun.
Second act – Flashback fades off, and it goes back to the present to one of the girls in
the flashback’s house, Sarah, the girl that is searching for the other girl, Miko, who left her
behind all alone. Sarah receives a phone call, from Miko and they have a discussion and
they fight over the phone, and Miko tells Sarah to meet up.
Third act - They meet up, Miko gives Sarah a present, something very special to her, and
they agree they will both going to try to move on from the past, Sarah agrees but she says
to Miko that she will never stop loving her.
The movie is pretty original, the whole same sex couple thing is still not that much present
in the movie industry, so it will be nice to have something new or something that we don’t
get to see that much on tv. A film dedicated to two Asian girls in love, not something we
see on Tv that often.

3. � SAMPLE SCENE
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4. P U R P O S E
◦The purpose of the short film is to tell
more about LGBT relationships, and how
hard it was in the 80s to be in a same sex
relationship.
◦To submit it to festival, and to put it on
YouTube to give it more exposure to a
wide audience.
◦To promote myself, and to show my skills
◦My movie fits in the romance drama
genre, both are really loved in the UK
mostly by the female audience. It is going
to be 5-6 minutes long.
M o v i e s t h a t i n s p i r e d m e

5. M I K O
♈ Age - 24 years old
♉ Nationality - Japanese
♊ Occupation – Student, poet
♋ Motivation – To clarify and to tell Sarah, the
reason why she left
She is a really bubbly and easygoing person.
She was madly in love with Sarah, the other main
character.
Her family is very strict and have a very close
minded.
She was forced to get married at 26-27.

6. S A R A H
♈ Age – 20 years old
♊ Nationality – Chinese/ Australian
♉ Occupation – Student, writer
♋ Motivation – To find her lost love, Miko
Very independent and confident girl.
She is very protective of people and things she
loves.
Unlike Miko she grow up in a very nice and
open
minded family in fact she was adopted by an
Australian couple when she was five years old.

7. COSTUME DESIGN
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8. PRE-PRODUCTION
S e t D e s i g n
For my short video, most of the scenes
would be mostly inside a room and the
last few would be outside in a park or
just in a garden.
The color palette it’s going to be pretty
yellowish and brown, to give a warm
feeling.
And to make it look it’s set in the 80s
having a warm color tone for the
movie, would make it look much more
vintage kind of type.

9. � STORYBOARDS

10. � LIGHTING PLANS

11. DE V E LOPME NT - In the future the short film could be
turned into a short six episodes show, each of 30 minutes.
S C R E E N I N G a n d
D I S T R I B U T I O N - The short film could be screened in a
film Festival, since it has higher chance to get in, if it is done well, because it
talks about LGBT people's issues which people really get attracted to a lot.
The movie would be U, since there are no swear words, no nudity, and no
drug use, the short film should be suitable for audiences aged four years
and over, so basically anyone can watch it.

12. L E G A L a n d E T H I C A L
C O N S I D E R A T I O N - Some things that I'll have to be
careful of has to be the background music that I will use for my short film, since the
short film could be taken down because of copyright issues. So if I want to use
music I'll have to get permission of using it from the owner. Other issues that could
arise is people from Asian countries getting offended that their country's images is
being ruined by showing it in a bad way, like marrying their daughters off and stuff
like that.
Something that I’m afraid would happen if I released this movie in some Asian
countries like China, is that they would probably ban it, because they wouldn’t like
that a Chinese person is playing a lesbian character. And just in 2001
homosexuality was classified as a mental illness in China, we talking about 18 years
ago

13. � BUDGET

14. � PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
Day 1 Location – Green
screen room
Day 2 Location – Green
screen room and park
Day 3 Location – Park, or
the garden outside school.
Both actresses needed for all
the days.

15. � T A R G E T A U D I E N C E
This film is definitely aimed at an older audience, and more towards women,
since it is about romance and a bigger percentage of women tend to love this
genre more than men do. As for the social grade it is definitely for an audience
from the D-E class, semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations, students
and unemployed people, which are a big percentage of population in Uk, a
maximum of 26.05%.
The first target audience are women, or girls in their 20s, from the socio
economic group E
And the second target audience are men and teenagers, from the socio economic
group C2 or D

16. � SURVEY
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