My Movie Synopsis
I have been finding it particularly difficult to develop an essentially interesting, rounded, and compelling plot as I hadn’t been a large fan of Rom-Coms, so writing my own one was incredibly daunting.
Having the title helped a lot; it gave me some constraints to give me a bit of a creative boost. From the title ‘The First Date’ I was able to come up with a couple fairly good ideas.
One of them was created when I was trying to go against the typical idea when faced with the phrase ‘The First Date’; this idea was going to be about two lawyers going against each other in court (one as a defence attorney, the other as the prosecution) who gradually fall in love after meeting each other at the first court date or their trial. This idea, although pretty cute, was incredibly impractical as I pictured them being mid-20s, who I couldn't really cast successfully, and I wanted a majority of my filming to be done in an actual courtroom, which would be difficult to recreate and even more difficult to properly achieve for my budget of practically nothing.
The second idea is the one I enjoy the most, and it’s easier to film and cast for. Essentially it begins with two people; a guy and a girl, meeting online over a mutual adoration for a certain show/comic/film/ (I haven’t decided which). They talk through Skype, one makes art to the other ones stories, they generally just seem to perfectly click together and start to fall for each other. They eventually ask each other out and meet up for the first time (The First Date). This is where the girl finds out her ‘man’ is actually a gender fluid girl. She gets really pissed because it turns out her ‘boyfriend’ purposefully told her she was a guy because when she found out the girl she liked was straight she didn't want to give her up, she loved her. This breaks them apart for a while, they try to apologise to her, but no replies. Until a couple months later when their show is cancelled and they start talking again, they admit they missed each other, and get back to drawing and writing with each other, then they agree to meet up again. But when they see each other, the genderfluid girl is dressed as a girl, and the straight girl is dressed as a boy, (as a romantic gesture of sorts) they kiss and the trailer ends.
Overall, I think the second idea is the stronger of the 2; and although I payed with other ideas, I tend to figure out what I want in a film pretty quickly so it all seemed to fit into place really well with room for errors, and any changes I wanted to make.
