Outline

HELLLOOO AGAINN, today we will be discussing the outline for the short film. Me and my partner decieded to follow through with a comedic short film. 

In class worked on outlining the full idea and story with my partner but before moving forward with anything else. I drew inspiration from Skipped (which I discussed earlier), structuring theshort film into three clear segments to keep the escalation tight and the pacing sharp.

The film begins with the main character being a a**hole towards people when he finally comes across a penny who speaks to him, reluctly our main character picks up the penny from the ground, once in its hand the penny wispers to the main charater asking it to filp it, teleporting to a whole different location where the coin reveals that he has to become a better person by doing kind acts in onrder to get back home.

(Example of somthing going bad)

Wanting to go home the main character starts to turn a new light where he tries to be better by doing . kind acts for people howver every time he tries to do something nice, it ends up backfiring (in a funny way). So each time he teleports somewhere new, he sees an opportunity to help someone, tries to do something kind, and then the situation goes wrong.

Even though things keep going wrong, he still keeps trying to help people. That is something I want to connect to the message of the film. I want the theme to show that kindness still matters even when things do not go perfectly.

At the end of the film, the main character teleports one last time and finally manages to complete a kind act without anything backfiring. When he tries to flip the coin again, nothing happens. The coin stops working. This is supposed to show the real point of the coin: it was there to push him to do something nice for someone. The film ends with him realizing that he does not need the coin anymore and that he can still help people even without the teleportation.

I'm really excited about how this is coming together, cant wait for the end product!!