Our Proposal

My group have taken on the challenging task of making an alernative/indie/comedy film. The plot is simple but should be able to bag a few laughs.

The film starts with a pitch black screen. A cigarette is then lit (the only source of light) and the hand lighting it is covered in blood.

This will decieve our audience into thinking that the film is infact a thriller however these ideas our shattered as the male chokes on the cigarette (element of trying to act cool) and the camera zooms out to see a young male with shaving cuts on his face (the blood on his hands) sitting in a shed. A light will come on and this is the point where we realise that it is infact a comedy. He leaves the shed and makes his way to his bedroom where he gets ready for his day.
As he gets ready, he "attempts" a work out in which he praises himself for doing three pull ups on his door frame but awarding himself a sticker on his "workout chart". As he gets ready he puts a random selection of objects in his bag, confusing the audience. He is in his own world and as he leaves his house for his destination, he is confident. The camera zooms in on his feet but as it zooms out he is on a busy main road.
It is here we realise he is prehaps not so confident and we see his "awkward" character. The rest of the two minutes will be spent by the character trying to make it from one end of the road to the other, in which comical happenings occur. He then reaches his destination (however you never actually find out what his destination is) and says a line that again confuses the audience. The scene ends and the audience are left wondering where he was going, why he had these objects and what he was doing.


1. Our idea is practically possible to film as it doesnt involve any difficult scenes. The only possible problem would be cars on the main road we are using for the final part of the film, however if we time it correctly it will be possible.

2. Our film will definately show off the strengths of all the members in our group. We each had our own contribution to the plot of the film and due to our different interests, we can each show our strengths. For instance music, creativity and fashion.

3. It can be easily storyboarded as we only use 3 locations and there is nothing too complicated occuring.

4. It can be reasonably shot and edited in the time given as the scenes shouldnt take too long to shot - their concept is simple.

5. We can easily get access to the locations as we are using our actors own house and a public street.

 We chose to use Camden Town for our main road as it's well known for being unusual and perculiar. We believe this will highlight the characters "awkwardness" and he will be able to react off of the people surrounding him.

6. Lighting should not be a problem for any of the film as for the first scene of the film as we are using a shed and the intentions is that it is dark. When in the characters bedroom, there should normal daylight and we will be filming early morning in Camden Town. Sound may be an issue in Camden however that can be eaily edited out.

7. We will be including dialogue in the film however it will be kept to a minumum. In the first two locations the sound can be filmed at the time however on our final location the sound will have to be added in.

8. For our main character we are using our friend James Mansfield as we feel he will fit the character well. He is reliable and therefore continuity will not be an issue. Our character is inspired by the actor Michael Cera as he portrays the "awkwardness" of the character perfectly.

We may also use extras however they are irrelevant and it will be down to who is avaliable at the time.

9. The credits and the soundtrack play a huge part in portraying that film is an alternative indie film. We are hoping to have animated credits like that of Juno and Superbad.

Opening Credits of Juno


Opening Credits of Superbad


Diana Vickers video for The Boy Who Murdered Love also contains some really good animations which have inspired to make our credits similiar.

Diana Vickers - The Boy Who Murdered Love



We have also thought about the soundtrack which will play as the character leaves the shed and gets ready for his day.
We have friends who are willing to cover songs if not we will get in touch with people who have already made covers and ask if we may use theirs.
Here are a few songs we are interested in using.

The Kinks - Wonder Boys



Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips



Hall and Oates - You Make My Dreams