Film Proposal

Type: Short Film

Genre: Thriller, Drama

Themes: Hopelessness, confusion  

The story begins on a bright scene, the colours are vibrant and happy music is playing. The characters are brought into frame, a young man and women with their two kids having a picnic in the park, from there the story would progress throughout their day as they have a seemingly wonderful time and it’s clear that the main character (The woman) is a happy and content person, the day ends and the couple are preparing for bed. They get into bed as the woman faces the ceiling, and the camera focuses on the women as she closes her eyes. A slight smile upon her face, as she slowly drifts off you begin to hear a slight beeping slowly, almost like the sound of a heart rate monitor. The scenes fade to black as other sounds begin. The sucking sound of a respirator and various other machines, the next shot is of a woman, middle aged. She lies in a hospital bed. Greying hair spread out behind her on the pillow, her eyes begin to flutter open and it is clear she has been in the bed for some time. She looks weak; all of a sudden a doctor would enter and remark in surprise that she is awake before quickly running off to find his superiors.

The rest of the film entails her attempting to get her life back together. She finds out that she has been in a coma for 20-something years, and that the previous events of her and her family where nothing but a figment of her imagination. There would be a constant grey filter, making everything look depressing. As she struggles to learn to walk properly again and to grasp the concept that this fake life she envisioned wasn’t real. The short film would end after a lengthy fight for her to get her life back together. The final sequence being her sobbing in a dingy apartment as the camera draws out of the apartment we here a bang and the scene fades to black and all of a sudden the starting sequence would play again. The colourful palette returning as she spends the day with her family once more briefly before the films ends. The audience is unsure of her condition after the ending.