Outline

Hey Cambridgeee,

As I said in my previous blog posts, my partner and I decided to create a short film, specifically a comedy short film, for our project. After looking at different genres and watching examples in class, we felt comedy would work best for us, especially since we want to focus more on visual humor than on dialogue.

Today in class, I worked on the outline of my project. I wanted to figure out the full idea and story before moving on to anything else. I also wanted to take inspiration from Skipped, which I talked about in one of my previous posts, and structure my short film into three segments. The film will start with the main character picking up a penny from the ground and realizing that every time he flips the coin, he teleports to a new location.

Once he starts teleporting from place to place, he decides he might as well try to do something good with this ability (this is where the kind acts come into play). His goal becomes trying to do kind acts for people wherever he ends up. Slight problem… 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, attempting to teleport, nothing happens. The coin stops working. This is supposed to show the real point of the coin, which was 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.