Elena Ortiz Concept #: 2
TITLE FOR YOUR CONCEPT (you’re not married to this title forever; but even working titles can help later on): Lasciar Andare
PROJECT VENUE/FORMAT: This is a live action short.
RUNNING TIME (approximately): 5 minutes – This is just a glimpse, one moment in an epic love story. It’s one point in time that gets straight to the point.
TYPE OF CONTENT: live action video. Real people, real locations.
VISUAL LOOK(S) OF YOUR CONCEPT (stay with the visual here, and don’t be afraid to cite examples from films, TV shows, videogames, etc.): It needs to feel old but not black and white old, sepia old. Old Italy but like how rosselini does italy, without showing the famous monuments and buildings. *I have a file with images and video I'll bring to class
STORY STATEMENT: A lonely Italian widower cannot accept that his wife is truly gone. Unable to cope he finds himself stuck in an endless routine of false hope and disillusion.
NARRATIVE OUTLINE: Ed and Betty have been together for 50 years. They go shopping together every week walking hand in hand in perfect sync with each other. They are walking home from their daily shopping trip and reach the steps to their home. Ed offers Betty his arm and she refuses to take it reaching for the railing instead. Ed reaches the top faster and Betty’s image fades as she climbs disappearing entirely before reaching the top. Ed sighs and continues into his house alone passing an in memoriam photo of Betty before shutting the door.
WHY YOU THINK AN AUDIENCE CAN SHARE IN THIS (what are you trying to say or explore?): Everyone wants to find someone they can grow old with and Ed and Betty represent that, but they also reflect the idea of loving too much, of obsession. Ed cannot and refuses to let Betty go so he carries her with him every day
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