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- 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 h t t p s : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = u 7 Z r - 9 2 y J 9 U
- 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 � S A R A H � M I K O
- 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.
- 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 ◦ h t t p s : / / w w w . s u r v e y m o n k e y . c o . u k / r / 3 Y X 2 C K 2