Our New Storyline

As you guys know, our original storyline was going to be a musical. I even composed the music, but due to corona, the flashmob (requiring over 10 people getting together) will not happen. We cannot risk getting infected and spreading the virus. After lots of brainstorming, we decided that we would scratch the musical idea but keep our storyline and make it a drama.

Since we were originally supposed to film at school, but now we can’t anymore, we decided to have the film set during the summer. We decided to keep the idea of the music playing through the headphones and playing with diegetic/nondiegetic sound. The film opening will start off with Mia, the main character, Riding her bike and getting home. She checks the mail and sees college mail and she’s expecting a letter back from NYU but she does not have one yet. She continues to walk towards the door but before she enters her house. she takes off her pins which are representative of the LGBTQ community. As she enters her home, we kept part of the original storyline, and we are having her greet her mom and her mom neglecting her by saying “I’m busy right now “ or something along those lines. She will then enter her room, sit on her bed, and go on her computer to check email for more information about her acceptance to NYU. During this time she wanders off and daydreams about her dancing up on the stage. Janey has some footage from last year‘s dance recital so we will use that footage for the daydream scene. She eventually snaps out of it when she gets a phone call from NYU. The screen then goes black, leaving the viewers with a bit of suspense by the end of the film opening. 

I have attached a link to a voice memo of our whole process of developing a new storyline below:

Our New Film Opening