Road Block

The past couple of days have been an emotional rollercoaster filled with indecisive thoughts and major anxiety over what to idea to produce. To top things off, my sister deleted my original blog post last night over a dumb fight…. so here is the rewrite:
As I had anticipated before, my first idea was too ambitious to produce under the limited 6 weeks because we would need an abundant amount of characters and costumes. Consequently, all of Monday was spent pondering over ideas that could not be agreed upon, resulting in the fallback on schedule. Wednesday, I came up with a new idea that seemed to pitch Sofi an Paloma, but Sofia came up with an alternative version… so once again ROAD BLOCK! Here are our two ideas:

1. A man wakes up thinking that he is running late for work, and goes about his daily routine while trying to make it on time. However, he suddenly comes to the realization that since he woke up, time has remained the same almost like it was frozen. He goes outside to try to ask his neighbors what is going on, but his street is completely empty. After searching for an entire day, the protagonist is about to give up until he finds a woman in a nearby park. The two of them develop a relationship, but become frightened when they realize that they are aging rapidly. The man suffers from a heart attack and wakes up in a white room attached to several cables. The audience then finds out that this whole simulation was a couple’s therapy for him and his wife.
2. A man goes by his entire day by staying in the exact same time as he woke up (8:00). He gets ready for work, says goodbye to his wife, and continues his day as any other. Throughout these scenes, we were thinking of having a voice over narration describing how everything seems normal, but the man is incomplete. When he gets home, the audiences witnesses empty pill bottles and an IV positioned beside the couch. By utilizing visual and auditory components, it would imply the notion that his wife passed away, but the man is still hallucinating that she’s alive. The next day the man wakes up, but this now he is stuck in the time (8:01), representing how he is trying to cope with all of his emotions in small amounts.

Since we couldn’t decide on a topic, during our group discussions, we decided to take a poll on what our classmates think
would be the best idea. Sadly, our peers could not reach a consensus (shocking), so we were back to square one. After receiving advice from Stoklosa to go with the story that is easiest to portray a message while also challenging ourselves, we decide to have a conversation and actually plan things out.
After Sofi and Paloma shared a phone call we decided to go with… (Drumroll please)…OPTION 1, but with slight alterations.
The following text is a copy-and-pasted outline that Sofi texted in our whatsapp group chat.

Short Film: 

- Guy wakes up. From the moment he wakes up to the time he gets ready for work it's been 7am this whole time. (Will show this through shots of the time) (this will be portrayed with music  and sounds of what he is doing)

 - He gets in his car and backs out but there is another car in his way. He gets down and realizes it's frozen and the whole cars near him are frozen too.

 - He then walks to his friends house to see what's up, but sees that his friend is frozen as well in his sleep. This causes the main guy to be more freaked out. 

- He then runs to his house and try's to find out what is happening. He turns on the news and nothings on. He checks his phone and there's no signal. Then he goes outside again to see the people frozen and at that pint realize that time has stopped. (He will say something that shows his realization) 

- He then goes back home and tried to figure it out. He changes the time to see if it would move. But it just went back to 7am. He reads his sci fi books of when he was a child to find answers but nothing helped.

 - He gets frustrated and he goes to the park. He sits on a bench and puts his head on his head as if he was tired. Then he feels a hand touch his shoulder. He obviously is like WTF everyone is frozen. But sees it's a girl. 

- The girl and him share minimum dialogue and will create a close relationship with montages. (Beach, ice cream, movies, etc) 

- They get back home and they fall asleep. 

- That morning she wakes up screaming as she has turned old and the guy starts freaking out. This movement of him screaming and shaking her not it leave him will be graphic match and it will show him freaking out alone in a chair with a bunch of wires.

 - Here a women (nurse) comes to him and says "it's okay you are back sir" "this was a part of your couples therapy" 

- She says this as she staking the wires off of him. And then she says "your wife (or girlfriend) is waiting for you in the other room" 

- Then the camera follows him behind (hand held) and we see him open the door to see the girl from the simulation (but not old anymore) and he gives her a huge hug and says "never leave me" and the short films ends.

Obviously we have to come up with a formal script, and we might alter some ideas along the way. Regardless, I'm very excited to see what we can produce. Stay tuned ;)