Proposal

1.      Synopsis

2.      Aesthetic and technical strategies to achieve this.

3.      Target Audience.

4.      Timescales and how you intend to logistically achieve the project.

5.      Additional materials you will produce (music video, making-of, etc).

     My film is about a boy mourning the death of his girlfriend, holding onto the only connection he has left with her, his dreams. The film will portray how the mind which you dream in interprets memories. Each location will shoot the protagonist, the girlfriend, twice. Once using a camcorder (home footage) juxtaposed with footage from a HD camera (dream sequence). The home footage will be the memories he has of her, in everyday life. Contrasted with his minds manipulation of her character. For example one memory scene is set with the girl in the bath, she leans over the side and looks up at her boyfriend as he brushes his teeth. It will then cut to the dream where the girl is still in the bath but this time covered in red rose petals (also symbolic of death). As the girl has died almost all of the dream sequences will incorporate death, mostly through the use of props. Another dream sequence will be the girl surround by candles, commonly when someone young dies their friends and family join and each bring a lit candle. 

   

      Throughout the video the boy loses control of his dreams. Therefore losing his control of holding on to her. The lyrics repeat "be my dream come true, just play my game come true" As if a demand onto her to stay with him, she will eventually walk out of each scene to show you have no control over your dreams. And will fade from the memory sequences, to show her death. The dream scenes will be very abstract and sometimes appear distorted of disjoined. She will look extremely beautiful and made up with striking makeup, the her in his dreams is his fantasy, not reality. 

    I am going to distinguish reality from dreams through the shooting and editing. The memories have a camcorder filter over them, and are shot as handheld making it feel very homely. Where as the dream sequences can be jolty but also steady, and I have used colour collection, blur etc. to make the scenes look and feel like a dream.
 
   I am planning on making a 'making of' video, going behind the scenes, and showing my preparation into each shoot.

  Since my film is somewhat experimental, and surreal. My audience would have to be people who are interested in art-house filmmaking. Or interested in the artist I'm trying to promote.