Title: Secrets
I was stuck between this title and another title I had which was called 'Tick Tock', I chose this one because its all about the main two protagonists revealing unknown secrets to each other.
Logline: A male and female wake up in a meeting room wanting to escape but secrets have to be revealed in order to leave the room.
Plot: A boy called Jack and a girl called Millie, wake up locked in a meeting room. They don’t know each other and start to introduce themselves to each other, Jack is a famous actor and Millie is an actress in training. A mysterious voice on a tannoy tells them that they do indeed know each other but they have a lot of secrets that they are hiding from each other and the mysterious voice asks the both of them a series of questions and if they lie then they will get a jolt of electricity through their bodies as they have tense machine pads on both of their backs. The two of them have an hour to solve what the secrets are or the door will lock forever. It ends revealing that Millie is the one who set this all up and pretends to have a secret but she doesn’t have one. Millie wanted Jack to admit the truth and apologise for what he did in secondary school, bullying her over her acting humiliating her. She wanted to get revenge as Jack became very successful and he made Millie’s life hell in secondary school. It ends with Jack showing compassion to Millie. Millie ignores his compassion and walks out of the room, ignoring Jack shouting out to her, shutting the door behind her as the time runs out and Millie says to the camera with her key for the door in her hand, ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’ and walks out of the camera shot as the door locks behind her.
Genre: Drama-Thriller
I chose this genre because I thought it best matched the plot that I have created. I chose drama because there is some dramatic parts of the plot, and I chose thriller because there is suspense with the clock ticking down.
Location: Maidstone TV Studios
I chose this location as this is a place where I have easy access to and getting permission to film wouldn't be a struggle and I would be able to get permission quickly and easy.
Actors needed: 2 (1 male, 1 female)
I chose to have two actors as I think having more characters would over-complicate the plot too much and the maximum number of actors we could have for this unit was two so I decided to go for the maximum as I think having one actor would make the film a bit boring and I wanted to challenge myself.
Props: Something that looks like a tense machine or electrocution pads, mobile phone, TV Screen (could be in the room, if not then this is optional), Lock key for door.
I chose these props as I think they are necessary for where I want the plot to go.
Costumes:
For Jack:
- Smart white blouse with a black smart jacket
- Black trousers
- Black smart shoes
- Black shades (optional)
For Millie:
- Smart dress/burgundy top with a black hoodie.
- Black leggings/trousers
- Black boots
- Black Balaclava, Gloves and Black Wig (Beginning only)
I chose these costumes as I can easily envision what the characters are going to wear in this short film.
Target Audience: 15+
Backstories
Millie West:
Millie is a 19-year old girl that is trying to make it big in the acting industry. She is currently secretly working as a part-time job as a famous squirrel mascot called Miss McNuts working with little kids birthday parties for her local area of Hillford. Millie has always wanted to be a famous actress and is trying to get the money, from being a mascot, to go to a proper drama college and she also has a problem with letting her past go. She was bullied by Jack in their secondary school called Hillford Academy, for forgetting her lines and ad-libbing most of them adding her unnecessary creativity to the stories. She thinks her ad-libbing and adding her own lines into the different plays she was in was the best idea she ever had and it made the stories even more interesting. Ever since then she has never got a place at any after-school drama clubs because Jack spread rumours about Millie’s terrible acting all over the city. However, the audience does not know this until she announces it near the end of the short film. She reveals about her working as Miss McNuts as nearly no one knew this. If people annoy her in anyway shape or form, she can get quite aggressive, she wasn't aggressive in secondary school it's only just started to shape into her personality recently.
Jack Farrell:
Jack is a 20-year old man that is a famous actor and has been in many films and is very popular. He has a personal butler called Sebastian and lives in a very posh part of a city called Gramsby which isn’t that far from Hillford but his family is not posh, he is used his money from his work in his movies to get a nice mansion. He is very secretive around people he doesn’t know and he doesn’t want them to think that he is hiding something or that he is weak-minded. He enjoyed bullying Millie in the past as it made him fit in with the crowd and stand out. But since then he has matured and he has been to the most prestigious drama college in the country, TCGA (The College for Gifted Actors), and graduated with high marks and the highest grade in the colleges history. The secrets he admits is that he would sometimes bribe the press, paparazzi and news reporters to give him positive stuff in the newspaper and on the news. He doesn’t feel any remorse about the rumours he spread about Millie because he only worries about his reputation only, but he sometimes doesn’t think things through and think about the repercussions that come from what he spreads around.
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