Proposal, Single Camera, Runaway

Proposal

Our short film is a story of a girl who runs away from home, showing what she is faced with when leaving home and taking to the streets. Our film approaches different issues people are faced with when living on the streets, and we show each of these issues in different scenes. Separated like chapters, we made a list of issues we wanted to approach being; anger, neglection, desperation, shame, hunger, greed, isolation, determination, hopelessness and exhaustion.

We wanted to translate her emotion through using subtitles, and completely removing all dialogue. Her thoughts and feelings will be explained through on screen text as the film progresses. We will still be using diegetic sound, created through foley, soundtrack pro and using the microphone on set. We are taking an artistic risk by eliminating dialogue but we believe it will create a more personal and honest connection with the character and audience.

We are targeting our film at mainly adolescents, since we want our film to create awareness of the struggles which comes from leaving home. We also think the editing techniques and filming we’ve used will appeal to aspiring filmmakers like ourselves. Since it is very experimental, artistic, and abstract.

We think if we were to sell our programme to a channel its would be E4. Since our target audience is a very similar range to theirs. And our film does have similarity to the issues approached in some of their programmes for example skins.

We plan to market our short film by creating posters, which we will place around colleges, schools, bus stops accessible locations for our target audience, being adolescents. We also want to create a viral marketing campaign, pop ups which will appear on popular sites such as facebook, twitter and youtube, commonly used by our main target audience. We also want to appeal to have our viral campaign on websites such as ‘grolsch film works’ a website which celebrates creative film. 

Writen By Molly Noble