I have been struggling so much with my pitch for The Meeting! I can't seem to pack all the information that i want into 25 words or less! I'm struggling to write one with less then 30 words at the moment! But i have got one, let me know what you think of it!
'A bully and her victims world unknowingly collide, in a rollercoaster of emotion, violence and torment.'
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Characters
Here is a short description of my 2 main characters in 'the meeting'
Sam
• 16 years old
• Tall
• Bigger built then other girls
• Lonely
• Violent father
• Mother who is too scared to protect them
• Due to not being able to protect herself from her father and seeing that he gets his way by being violent, she thinks if she is violent then she will get what she wants.
• Wants to be one of the popular girls
• Wants to feel love
• Has no one to talk to
• Wants to escape her real life
• The person she shows at school is not the person she is really
Thomas
• 14 years old
• Medium height
• Small build
• A mother who is too protective of him
• A father who is always away on business trips
• Feels that his protective and over motherly mum is the reason he is so shy
• Not many friends at school
• Prefers to study then mix with his peers
• Wants to be part of the cool crowd but doesn’t feel confident
• Wants to come out of his shell
• Fed up of doing the same thing day in, day out
• Wants to stand up to his bully but wont because he is scared of the consequences
• Has such a different personality under all of his shyness that he cannot bring himself to show to his peers.
I feel like i have really got into what my 2 characters are like, not only with their physical appearance but also with how they feel mentally and what their personal lives are like.
Sam
• 16 years old
• Tall
• Bigger built then other girls
• Lonely
• Violent father
• Mother who is too scared to protect them
• Due to not being able to protect herself from her father and seeing that he gets his way by being violent, she thinks if she is violent then she will get what she wants.
• Wants to be one of the popular girls
• Wants to feel love
• Has no one to talk to
• Wants to escape her real life
• The person she shows at school is not the person she is really
Thomas
• 14 years old
• Medium height
• Small build
• A mother who is too protective of him
• A father who is always away on business trips
• Feels that his protective and over motherly mum is the reason he is so shy
• Not many friends at school
• Prefers to study then mix with his peers
• Wants to be part of the cool crowd but doesn’t feel confident
• Wants to come out of his shell
• Fed up of doing the same thing day in, day out
• Wants to stand up to his bully but wont because he is scared of the consequences
• Has such a different personality under all of his shyness that he cannot bring himself to show to his peers.
I feel like i have really got into what my 2 characters are like, not only with their physical appearance but also with how they feel mentally and what their personal lives are like.
The Meeting
So I have been working really hard on my project 'The meeting' Its been a tricky one thats for sure! I have to have a pitch synopsis and 10 page script ready to hand in for next week.
Here are is my synopsis...
The meeting is a social realistic drama about a bully and her victim meeting online unknowingly. Thomas the brain box of his high school knows the routine of his school day, and it doesn’t just consist of classes, lunch and then more classes. Instead it involves the tedious bullying by his biggest and toughest peer, Samantha, or Sam as she is known. The tomboy who intimidates even the toughest of school lads.
Thomas, a geeky 14 year old has ambition, and although underneath he craves to be apart of the ‘cool crowd’ at his school he chooses to stay focused on his studies. Feeling fed up he decides to use a teen chat site t talk to others of his age. He is desperate to stray away from his geeky persona and so makes a profile based on his cooler, older and more popular brother Theo.
Sam, a tall, larger framed girl, is renowned for being the school bully ever since joining later then everyone else. He home life in turmoil with an alcoholic and abusive father, and a mother too scared to protect them, she thought the only way to be in control of parts of her life was through violence, just like her dad does. Wanting to break out of her scary outer shell and show the true her, she joins a chat site under the name of Sarah, a sweet fun loving girl- the girl she feels she is underneath.
Sarah and Theo start chatting one evening. Realising they can be them true selves with one another and building up a strong connection they chat as much as possible over the commencing weeks. Finally feeling they can meet, they get the shock of finding out who they have really been talking to all this time.
With Sam trying to hide her tormented home life and Thomas giving it a go to fit in, the shock of seeing whom they have been talking to may well be too much to handle. The one person they thought understood them is not who they thought. They cant bring themselves to talk to each other face to face like they have been online, but with everything going on in one another’s head, will the pair become even more truthful then they have been already or give up completely and go their separate ways? This gripping, true to life film will not have a problem keeping your eyes on the screen. The emotional rollercoaster that these two teenagers go on is packed with emotion and the twists and turns are bound to keep you on your toes.
Here are is my synopsis...
The meeting is a social realistic drama about a bully and her victim meeting online unknowingly. Thomas the brain box of his high school knows the routine of his school day, and it doesn’t just consist of classes, lunch and then more classes. Instead it involves the tedious bullying by his biggest and toughest peer, Samantha, or Sam as she is known. The tomboy who intimidates even the toughest of school lads.
Thomas, a geeky 14 year old has ambition, and although underneath he craves to be apart of the ‘cool crowd’ at his school he chooses to stay focused on his studies. Feeling fed up he decides to use a teen chat site t talk to others of his age. He is desperate to stray away from his geeky persona and so makes a profile based on his cooler, older and more popular brother Theo.
Sam, a tall, larger framed girl, is renowned for being the school bully ever since joining later then everyone else. He home life in turmoil with an alcoholic and abusive father, and a mother too scared to protect them, she thought the only way to be in control of parts of her life was through violence, just like her dad does. Wanting to break out of her scary outer shell and show the true her, she joins a chat site under the name of Sarah, a sweet fun loving girl- the girl she feels she is underneath.
Sarah and Theo start chatting one evening. Realising they can be them true selves with one another and building up a strong connection they chat as much as possible over the commencing weeks. Finally feeling they can meet, they get the shock of finding out who they have really been talking to all this time.
With Sam trying to hide her tormented home life and Thomas giving it a go to fit in, the shock of seeing whom they have been talking to may well be too much to handle. The one person they thought understood them is not who they thought. They cant bring themselves to talk to each other face to face like they have been online, but with everything going on in one another’s head, will the pair become even more truthful then they have been already or give up completely and go their separate ways? This gripping, true to life film will not have a problem keeping your eyes on the screen. The emotional rollercoaster that these two teenagers go on is packed with emotion and the twists and turns are bound to keep you on your toes.
The synopsis really gave me the chance to make my characters real people and not just people in a 10 minute film that i was making. I now have a very clear idea of what my characters are like and how they have come to how they are, i think all of this helps in the run up to the 1-2 minute trailer that i am making . I think this because if you have a clear idea of something it helps the process of getting to the end product much smoother and quicker!
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