Since my last blogpost, the team and I have been hard at work with our film screenplay. Not only did we begin writing the screenplay for the actual film (as opposed to the script that would be used for a prop within the movie) this week, but we have made significant progress on our script.
We are up to 8 pages and have a completed rough draft of our story. As we were reading back this first draft, a concern that came about among us was regarding our time limit. We have to keep our short film within a 5-minute window. With our script already at 8 pages and us still wanting to add scenes and revise more aspects of our storyline, this time constraint could prove a bit of a challenge for us creatively.
As of right now, the storyline of our film involves our main character, dubbed "The Protagonist", who is introduced in the film as the main character within a stereotypical coming-of-age film; until, he doesn't want to follow his line and breaks the 4th wall by speaking to the narrator directly. After a back and forth between protagonist and narrator, the narrator proceeds to put the protagonist in several different types of movies and genres that ultimately end in a standoff between one another. The ending would then have the protagonist and the narrator meet up face to face in person in which the narrator hands a script to the protagonist, symbolizing the protagonist (literally) writing his own future and story.
In order to further add to the script in detail, we will be researching different stereotypes and conventions of several movie genres that we could poke fun of and reference via the protagonist's adventures. We will be further revising and brainstorming ideas and concepts we can play around with and utilize to improve our short film.
Our draft can be viewed right here.
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