Film plot idea - Charlotte and Josh

Our film will open with a dream sequence involving our female character dancing in a field. We will use high key lighting mostly from behind as well as a soft focus; the shots will be vivid in colour to emphasise the dreamlike quality of the sequence. This character then walks up to the camera, there is a close up shot of her face which then cuts to a close up shot of the male protaganists face whilst he is lying in bed (graphic match).

 His alarm clock is beeping and then we cut to a wide shot of his whole room - there are photos of the girl in the dream all over his walls, suggesting he is infatuated with her and has been this way for a while.

We then start the title sequence with shows our protaganist getting ready for the day - eating breakfast, getting dressed etc -  we want to show this as the mundane routine that it is for him, which we will do through using dull colours and prolonged shots -  we also want small things to go wrong for him through this sequence to show his life at its lowest, for instance spilling his milk at breakfast, doing his buttons up wrong etc. We want to have bossanova jazz as a soundtrack to this scene to give a contrapuntal effect.

We then carry on to see him lying on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle or some other daytime television, implying that he is unemployed and isn't doing much with his life. We'd like to have an answerphone message in the backround from his mother asking where he is and why he hasn't called in a week, to show the audience that he has been housebound for some time, implying something is wrong.

As he is lying on the sofa he drifts off again into another dream sequence, showing the female protagonist again but this time in his bedroom, with him also in the dream too - she is coming towards him as he lay in bed which the audience sees from his point of view, and we see them almost kiss before he wakes up again, with another shot of him lying on the sofa. This dream obviously had more of an effect on him than the previous dreams, as he is actually involved with the girl this time.

Upon waking up, he has an epiphany and decides to try and win her heart. A montage sequence follows, with the aim to transform the protagonist from a dishevelled, depressed loser into a man worthy of the object of his affections. We will implement fast cuts and perhaps zooms, along with a non-diegetic soundtrack, with the following shots:

• Washing and shaving
• Making a card
• Looking up where she lives
• Shot of vodka
• Kissing the card and spraying aftershave on it
• Picking flowers from the garden
• Looking in the mirror and psyching himself up, breathing deeply
• Leaving his house and running down the street

Once he gets to her house, he knocks on the door but chickens out, dropping the flowers and card and running off. The girl then answers the door, picks up the card and flowers and looking down the street to see the male protagonist running away, arms flailing, tripping on the cobblestones. She then goes back inside and the last shot is of her doorstep before fading to blackout.