Approx. run time: 11/12 minutes
Genre: Drama
Target Audience: 12 years and older. No specific gender or race, it's for people that are willing to look at the world from different perspectives and views of others and deep thinkers. No specific demographic
Logline (Short and snappy): Step into the booth/ The booth shall set you free / Rethink everything. / Open [up] your mind. / Take a seat
Suggested cast (Who and why): a cashier at one of the restaurants, a group of background cast made up of friends or people that are in the bar/restaurant - after I ask for permission. Mardiyyah Adeka, Sam is largely based off of her and she has most of the aesthetics that is wanted for Sam's role, plus she could play a good Laura as well.
Setting: Possibly a booth in either Romeos or Five Guys or possibly in one of the Bars in Sunbridge: The wells (All in Bradford)
Order of events (Bullet point events):
- Sam is on the bus and overhears a group of girls talk about something being "So gay" as they get off the bus
- Sam sitting in the diner eating
- Laura (The girl that made the initial comment) walks in alone and orders a burger and chips
- Laura goes to sit whilst Sam watches her, and sits behind Sam
- Sam sits looking intrigued into space, then decides to go to the toilet whilst Laura gets out her work from her bag and starts reading and writing
- When Sam comes back, she sits opposite Laura and faces her watching her work and listen to music
- Laura tries to ignore her but glances up to see who is sitting opposite
- Laura eventually says "there's lots of other places to sit, why did she chose to sit opposite me?"
- Sam responds with something along the lines of "Just looking and admiring how basic you can
be" / "What's your problem?" and dialogue is exchanged and they two discuss and talk about
controversial/big global issues like Homophobia, race, immigration, faith and education.
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| Sam's design inspiration |
Samayn "Sam" Ashraff - a asian/black girl with an obvious bad girl attitude which shows in her body posture, short to medial black hair, slim weight and a hipster/girl power/lumberjack look with dark/autumn colour cloths. She has a number of tattoos that can be seen on her arms -because of her rolled/folded up sleeves- and on her neck. She has a couple of piercings in her ears and one in her nose. Sam's a straight forward but complicated person who basically stands up for equality in every aspect of life, however can come across as arrogant and aggressive when putting her views across to others. She will likely have the most lines in the movie and plays a huge role on how the movie will span and turn out. Will need a very good actress to fully portray her attitude and strong personality.
Laura Faye: A clearly dedicated student, she's working whilst eating her fries and burger. She's a fair skinned girl with make up on and a clean look. a more reasonable, thoughtful and compassionate Tomi Lahren.
Character/storyline inspirations:
Samantha "Sam" Dolton:
Attitude: Mardiyyah Adeka, Tessa Thompson, Sam White,
Appearance: Chelsey Wilkinson, Emma Stone, Kehlani
Laura Faye:
Attitude: a slightly tamed Tomi Lahren
Sam is on the top floor of a double-decker bus alone on her way to town and she's listening to her music. A girl (Laura) is behind her texting on phone and later picks up the phone on a call, as she leaves the top floor of the bus she says "That's so gay" to the person she's on the phone to (1 min 30 secs). Later that day Sam is sitting in a half empty restaurant and Laura walks in and orders something to eat, Sam recognises her immediately. Laura buys fries and a burger and when her order comes, she sits in the booth/seats behind Sam. Sam picks up a chip from her plate and looks at in a deep state of thought as she considers to go back and approach Laura who's getting her books out of her bag to try and study. Sam goes to the toilet but when she returns, she sits opposite to Laura. Just looking at Laura makes Laura visually uncomfortable, but she tries her hardest to ignore Sam. Sam keeps looking at Laura as she tries to focus on her work until Sam takes one of Laura's chips from her plate. "do you mind?" is Laura's first response and Sam reacts with "Do you?". Laura has a problem with Sam's attitude and Sam knows it (4/5 mins). The two then go on to talk about the following in this order: Homophobia > 11th oct - not confining it to 1 day
> why is being gay still such a big national issue/topic?> is being gay a choice
> what is love?
> what is beauty?
> is homophobia the same as/on par with racial discrimination/racism
> gender equality
> (7/8 mins)
Racism > it is still going on in the 21st century
> "Asian is the new black"
> mention some of the people that have been wrongly killed/stereotyped because of their race and appearance
> examples of racism e.g. real life events and racial slurs
> (9 mins)
Immigration > should countries allow immigrants into their countries
> L: immigrants are taking all our jobs. S: when was the last time you saw an immigrant take a/your job?
> yourself or morals first
> S: greed is the problem with the world
> (10 mins)
Faith > who's going to judge people for the things they do [a play on "only God can judge you"]
> (11/12 mins)
Education > how pressure can make people do stupid things.
> (13 mins)
Laura doesn't want to leave the talk because she is intrigued by Sam's perspective on things and wants to prove her wrong, as she's super arrogant.
Sam repeatedly mentions her potato theory. How a potato can come in lots of different colours and sizes and end up being different products e.g Wedges, chips, fries, crisps, mash but still edible.
A waiter (who's face we don't see) keeps coming to ask the pair to be a bit quieter
Ends with the waiter coming over and asking if they'd finished eating and Laura ordering "Potato...any kind, prepared in any way, she doesn't care."
Victor this is a very interesting idea that covers some very big ideas/issues; this is a strength of the idea but also makes it hard to see this working as a short film. It might be that there just isn't enough time to develop these ideas fully. Another potential problem is the location - it's actually quite hard to film a scene in a commercial setting like a restaurant, they usually don't agree to it as it disrupts their customers. Do you know anyone that could help set that up? Of course acting would also be an issue here - you'd need some good ones to pull it off!
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