Read through session

   For today's workshop we had to present two main ideas prior choosing the most appropriate one for our drama that took the form of a powerpoint, which can be seen below:

   In the end, we opted for the first idea, since we thought that is more suitable and achievable concurrently, and wrote a script of 5 pages (without the title and end page) called 'The two faces of destiny'. 

   As it was mentioned above, in the powerpoint screenshots, we decided on a quite fast pace editing, as we need to incorporate almost all the actions the two characters are going to take. 

   A good reference to this film is the short drama 'Standby' by Charlotte Regan, in which two characters are seen over time changing their emotions, attitudes, expressions based on the time of the year or on the current situation. Although we don't really know too many details about their background (we can only presume that they maybe also have been friends before becoming policemen or they had known each other previously somehow), we can clearly see that their common domain of activity strongly connects them both. 
  *This need to be with the person who has changed your life in a way or another and not to be apart from them, since you feel like a different person when you spend time with him/her, can also be depicted from the last scene, when we see that she has been replaced by a new co-worker, after she got promoted. He is visible sad because he won't be able to do his job next to his worker and friend anymore. Moreover, I could say he was a bit disturbed as well, because the new man got his order wrong, as she never did such a mistake, during the screening at least. We can't be sure if she didn't mess up his order in the beginning too.


   Seeing our drama from a technical side, I can add that we are going to have a lot of close-ups and mid shots in order to capture the two actors' performance properly, but also to put emphasis on some details that help the story develop/explain itself throughout the time limit. Long shots and even extreme long shots will be used too, to help the audience have a sense of space and time. Tracking shots are going to be used too, since I believe they can create a natural progression of the story, without the need to have that many cuts and jumps in the film.
   On the aesthetic side, I think that it's best to opt for a dreamlike and melancholic atmosphere, natural tones (the drawings' colours can be more vivid when seen on screen), with no particular approach to a dark/grim drama, as the film won't be based on Malloy's gloomy background story or the reasons why he is 'cursed' or what is going inside his head. 

   The short is going to accentuate the fact that a true friendship can change even the most ill and lonely person, that's why I want this drama to have a certain nuance (not ordinary, not too lively yet not too dim) to show the difference between their world and the others' world.



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Standby, Charlotte Regan, 9 March 2017, <https://vimeo.com/207630463>