The Plan

    Soooooooo, now that I've had to restart, I thought it was important to take some time explaining my thought process on what I want to do now. After the conversation with my teacher, I realized that I still wanted to stick with the idea of schizophrenia (which I'm now realizing I never said I wanted to do in my blog in the first place), even if I wasn't sticking with the same genre. I (with the help of my teacher) decided that I wanted to portray the disease in a happier way, and I thought that the best way possible was to utilize a comedy.

    After that, I spent the rest of the day scrolling through different comedies for some inspiration. Then it hit me. I saw went through the opening of The Truman Show and was heavily inspired. I came up with the idea of a character who believes that they are in a comedy, but aren't actually. With this plan in mind, I began writing the opening.

    I decided that I wanted to utilize a developing character opening as it works really well with both the genre and my idea. I've decided that I want the scene to open with a therapist appointment, where the main character rings on a bell. When this happens, all the viewers will see is black, but then the first thing we will see, is the main character talking to the bell as if it were a camera through the use of a POV shot as the bell. I felt like this would be a unique and attention grabbing way of setting the scene. After that it will cut to a medium shot of a reception area, where the man is still talking to the bell. In this shot, we will see a woman walking up from behind the desk, and she will notice the man and say "Oh, you must be (insert name)." This will not only establish the scene but it will also allow the viewers to realize that the main character is a real character (in the fact that he is talked about and heard of). 

    The reception lady will then guide the main character to a new room where he meets the therapist. Here I plan on having the therapist help develop the main character by saying something like "you're the one who thinks that they are in a TV show" and having the main character respond with "is in a TV show." This will set the scene for viewers on who the character is and the main plot of the story.

    The rest of the intro will go back and forth between the therapist and main character talking in the appointment with jokes thrown in to set the scene for the rest of the movie. I plan on at some point in the discussion for the therapist to say he believes that the main character is hallucinating, and the main character will turn and say something like "that's what he thinks" as if he is breaking the fourth wall, (which he won't be looking directly at the camera to enforce the fact that he isn't really a TV show character).

    Now that I told you my plan, it's time for me to go and develop it even more. Talk to you next time!!!

- The Producer