For my next task, I must write up a synopsis with my partner. We currently both have good ideas than need moulding into shape to fit the entire stroyline of our movie. Even though we are only filming the first two minutes of the film, it makes planning and storyboarding much easier for us, and will be a great help referencing back to this synopsis while filming.
Quinn and Max are a young couple, struggling to make their way in the city after a long, relaxed few years at university. They live in a fairly posh town house that Max's rich parents mostly paid for. They seem to have it better than most.
One night, whilst working the night shift in the hospital, Quinn runs into Francis, the odd janitor at work everyone is gossiping about. Quinn drops the bags of blood she is carrying and they burst on the floor. Francis stares at the blood for a second, says a few words and then glares at Quinn before leaving. Quinn is bewildered. At home, she frets about what she had witnessed that night, Max is very concerned.
Quinn goes back to the hospital for her next shift, unknowingly rushing until she turns up half an hour early. She confides what happened the night before with hey friend, another nurse, Mary. Mary tells Quinn about how she'd had a similar encounter on her night shift the other week at which Francis had said to her 'mind where you treat'. Mary seems very troubled and a little scared. Quinn asks her how things are at home with her terminally ill husband, Karl. Mary brushes off the question with a nervous nod of the head and then leaves. Quinn has a long, tiring shift in which a patient of hers died in his sleep. Very stressed, Quinn blames herself and drives home in a daze, leading her to nearly run over a little boy in the street. When she returns home she breaks down in Max's arms and falls asleep that way for a few hours. At 3 in the morning, Quinn awakes suddenly as if she has had some very disturbing dreams. Tired and confused, her body seems to lead her to the laptop, where she searches the name 'Francis Denver', even though she has never known Francis' last name before. No matches were found. Quinn refreshes the page repeatedly until she falls alseep at the desk.
The next morning Max awakes Quinn and irritably tells her that she has an unhealthy obsession with the janitor. Quinn over reacts, and knocks the laptop to the floor, causing it to break. Max, alarmed, books her in at a psychiatrist, to which Quinn says she'll go, but ends up stalking Francis back to his house. TO get to Francis' house they have to walk through a dark forest. Quinn loses track of him and turns to head home when she is hit hard on the head and blacks out. When she wakes up she is unfamilier to her surroundings and develops a couple of bruises and has a nasty gash on her head. As she treats herself, she realises she's in a room full of bloodstained sacks, supposedly full of bodies. Quinn is confused as to whether they're real or not. She blacks out and hears a loud screeching noise.
Quinn awakes in a hospital after an unfathomable amount of time. She finds out she is lying in the same bed her patient died in before. She is approached by two police officers and an inspector, who accuse her of murdering Max and Mary. Quinn is taken to the police station where she is interrogated. She is shown a number of pictures of Mary before and after her death. Quinn has short but gruesome flashbacks of Mary's body hanging in the janitors closet. Quinn does not remember anything but the name, Fancis Denver. After a while the police don't have enough evidence to throw her in jail, and she is left under survaillance. Not being able to leave the house, Quinn becomes crazed and depressed. She empties her bedroom and locks herself in with nothing but a picture of Max.
After a few weeks, the inspector breaks into Quinn's bedroom to find her weak and curled up on the floor. He tells her that they have found more bodies and more evidence that all points to her. In desperation and insanity, she pounces upon the inspector bites a chunk out of his shoulder and makes a run for it. She runs through the forest towards Francis' house. As she gets closer to the house, flashbacks of what actually happen hit her (Quinn did kill all those people through paranoia). She seemingly shakes it off and runs faster. When she gets to the house, she creeps around the back. Looking weak, insane and barely human, Quinn picks up a brick and enters the house. She creeps up to an armchair where Francis is sat, in a deep sleep. As she is about to hit Francis, he wakes up and there is a big brawl and chase through the house and out into the forest. Whilst the chase is happening, there is confusion to who is chasing who. Quinn gets more flashbacks of herself running through the same woods, chasing her fiance with a bloody knife in hand. We are then shown Francis, running for his life. He stops and hides behind a tree to catch his breath. He hears a twig snap and looks up to see Quinn crouched on a branch, readying to drop the brick on his head.
The film flashed to white and then fades to black, where the credits start
By writing this synopsis with help from my partner, I have found planning the entire film, storyboards and research to be much easier and stronger. Now that I have a full picture on what the film is going to turn out like, we can discuss further camera shots, possible props and outfits and some advanced storyboarding details. This will also help us when we come to start filming as we can refer back to our storyboard and synopsis in search of guidence. We have also opened up more gateways such as possible music and ideas for editing the movie together which will make everything much more effective for this movie. Overall we are pleased with what this synopsis has come to, and will be great for getting our heads around what we want the final outcome to look like.
This piece of work gives us a very clear idea on what will happen in the film, and while we have only briefly listen the main events we can storyboard these events to further detail. Since we have now completed the synopsis, we can now work towards our storyboards for the two minute opening, whilst making sure everything makes sense further down the line comparing to our two minute opening. This will also be a great help when we're filming and need to reference back.I am learning that tasks such as this one are very important to show off all your ideas, they effectivly help with the entire project and are the roots of the production. I am also learning that synopsis' and storyboards are vital when coming to make movies, and should be worked on thoroughly before moving on and begining to adapt and mould your movie.
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