Portfolio Project Idea

 My Absolutely Awesome Idea

    When beginning to brainstorm this project, it was important to me to first choose a genre I wanted to work within and then a story that compelled me.

    

    The first step was pretty easy for me. The romance and coming-of-age genres are my favorites of all time. This meant that I just had to come up with an idea that I knew I wanted to write and create.

  

    Since I love to read romance novels, my first course of action was to think of all of my favorite plots and tropes in romance novels and to specifically think about which ones I wanted to incorporate into my film. One of my first decisions was that I didn't want my romance to be straight. I felt like anything I did in my film with a straight couple had been done a million times over. 

    I ultimately decided to do a queer romance between two teenage girls.

    When I decided this, I also made one thing abundantly clear in my mind: this wouldn't be a coming-out story. It's been done to death in so many queer love stories, I wanted to keep that out of mine. This wouldn't be focused on the struggles of coming out, this would simply be a romance between two people who meet.

    Now onto the main point of this post: the idea.

    My film opening will begin with a shot of a girl walking down the sidewalk, she's wearing a backpack with embroidered flowers and small keychains decorating it. She's wearing light colors reminiscent of spring or summer, and her hair is loose around her shoulders and blows in the wind as she walks casually with a book in hand. Everything is calm when she is almost run over by a person riding a bike who speeds away quickly in the direction she is heading. 

    The girl makes it to where she was headed, the library, and a shot shows the same bike that had almost squashed her in the bike rack, but she doesn't notice this. She walks to the back of the library, finds a desk to sit at, and begins to do her homework, taking a book out of her backpack and setting it on the desk. 

    When she has all of her things laid out, she gets up, grabs her book, and walks over to the return bin, where she slides the book in and walks over to the shelves of books. She searches for a bit before she finds the book she was looking for and goes to grab it. She pulls on it slightly but it doesn't budge and then it's suddenly wrenched out of her hand and goes backward. She looks through the crack in the shelf and sees a pair of eyes looking back at her. The person had just taken the book. The girl complains and walks back to her table.

    After a bit of studying and doing homework, the girl gets up to go to the bathroom, and when she returns, the book that had been taken from her grasp earlier was sitting on the desk. She sat down and opened the cover to find a bright sticky note that had a phone number and a message on it that read, "Sorry for taking this out of your hands".

    The girl looks around confused, this is when the title of the movie appears. I still haven't thought of a title but I've always been bad at that. It'll come to me eventually.

    Once the title is gone, the girl closes the book and the screen goes black. Then the light of a screen being turned on in the dark is shown as the girl is laying in bed later that night, the number from the sticky note on the screen, waiting for a message to be sent.