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Due to no internet and a broken laptop I have been unable to update my blog. I have changed my idea slightly so that means my pitch, main plots and synopsis has changed. I'll put it up below:


The Meeting
Genre: social realistic drama
The idea/story: The Meeting is about a girl called Ellie who is stuck in a rut and living the tedious life of a 21 year old girl. When she gets to work it all changes, her manager offer her the promotion of a life time where she gets to move to Japan. She now has the choice of continuing her mundane life or going on the adventure which will change her life forever. When trying to come to a decision memories start flooding in of a friend she had once forgot. Can these memories help her to choose?
The plot: The audience enters Ellie’s life when her mundane life is interrupted.
Main plots:
1. Opening scene: Ellie is walking the downstairs to the breakfast table, laid out with a large selection of breakfast choices. She is greeted by her mother who is ironing her work clothes. While eating her mobile rings saying she needs to come in early.
2. She arrives at work where she is told about the usual night out that she did not attend as she was ‘too busy’ and how much she missed out, and then she is called into her manager’s office.
3. Once she is in the office her manager puts two envelopes on the table. He explains they need to cut staff down but there is a new branch opening in Japan. In one envelope there is a redundancy package and the other an aeroplane ticket to Japan with a contract to be the manager for the new branch.
4. This is when Ellie reach’s her life changing point; should she leave her sheltered life and go into the unknown. When her manager says ‘you only live once, Ellie’s remembers an old friend once forgotten.

The next few minutes will turn into flashbacks and memories of Ellie when she was 15 years old. Each number is a different day, time and place.

5. Ellie is 15 years old ignoring a guy who looks the same age following her. While he is trying to get her attention she finally turns around when the boy says “come on you only live once”. She stops and turns around he smiles and gives her a hand shake saying ‘I’m James’.
6. It’s a hot summers day Ellie and James are messing about at the playing field when she asks him what he wants to do when he is older. In which he replies live life to the full and asks her the same question. She stutters and replies she doesn’t know.
7. Ellie is around James house and watching him spin and turn his car in his field. He then comes over to her and tells her he’s going travelling in the summer holidays with his parents and would be going away for three months. He says how excited he is as they are going scuba diving, bungee jumping and swimming with dolphins. Ellie says how exciting it is but her heart is broken that he will be away so long.
8. Its night-time and they’re at the playing field lying on the grass looking at the stars. James places his coat over Ellie and there is more talking about living in the moment. There is a kiss between the two which fades out to darkness.

We go back to the future now to the final scene where Ellie is sitting on her bed with one of the envelopes in her hand. A taxi beeps twice in which she stands up and heads for the door.
9. Ellie is outside the front of her mum’s house with a suitcase behind her. Her mum is teary and Ellie is struggling to choke back the tears as she is getting in the taxi. The taxi stops down a quiet country lane where the girl gets out with a bunch of flowers. See puts them down next to old dead bunches. A single tear drops down the side of her cheek and get gets back into the taxi.
10. Ellie is at the airport where her manager is waiting as he greets her and says how she is making the right choice Ellie turns around and tells him she is not going to take the job in Japan and is going to travel the world. As she is boarding the train she remembers her last memory of James. Ellie is 16 years old and at James funeral who tragically died in a car crash.


The Pitch
A reclusive girl living in a rut now faces redundancy or a life changing decision; could memories of someone special help her choose her path.
The Synopsis
The meeting is short social realist film based on a reclusive girl called Ellie. Ellie is a petite, brown haired; blue eyed, 21 years old who is still living at her mums. She is well dressed and smart, currently working as an IT worker in a big London company. She lacks in confidence but is such a likeable character for her sweet childlike behaviour. She has lived 21 years in a sheltered life and as she is very shy, quiet and not outgoing she has become stuck in a rut. At work she is called into the manager’s office and gets offered two envelopes, one containing a redundancy package and the other containing a ticket to Japan with a contract to become the manager of the new branch opening out there. Timid, ‘mummies’ girl Ellie now has to choose between her safe and sheltered life and a new journey full of the unknown. When going down the elevator Ellie is remind of a friend from her youth with words said by her boss. We then travel into Ellie’s past and see how she meets her complete opposite, a guy called James. Although James has very childlike behaviour, he is spontaneous, outgoing, happy, bubbly, crazy, wacky and a cheeky chappy with a smile that could melt your heart. He takes risks and never regrets, living for the moment and life to the full.
The meeting is a story about a girl who is stuck on which path to take. Should she stay on the safe road of an average paid job where she’ll always have a place at home and her family around her or leave the country for a better career and into the unknown. Ellie thinks back to her past and a strong friendship she once had with James to try decide where her future belongs.