Brief Story Outline

Our story for our short film will be about a girl who is unknowingly famous, only to wake up and realize that it was all a dream. Our narrative will loosely follow most of Todorov's stages, however due to the fact that the ending reveals that all the events weren't real, there will be no 'new' equilibrium.

The film will open with a fade from white, with the girl walking down the street.The atmosphere will appear normal until she realizes that a lot of people are looking at her. There are people whispering and pointing at the girl, and she is confused as to why this is happening. She then gets approached by a child asking for an autograph, and the girl signs a poster, still confused as to what is going on. She then goes into a shop, and walks back out again with bags of clothes, implied that they have been given to her by the shop free of charge. Walking back out, there will be a time-lapse of the girl walking, ending at the cinema (Odeon in Brighton). There, she sees a poster with her on it, with something sinister written over, it. Upon seeing this, the girl runs into an ally, only to be followed by a black car. Shortly after, the girl is kidnapped, and wakes up in a dark room. The rooms walls are lined with photos of the girl, revealed in blurred POV shots. The kidnappers enter the room and walk menacingly towards the girl. At this point, she wakes up only to be sleeping in the streets, and all the previous events in the film were just part of a dream.

The film loosely follows Todorov's narrative theory, however, the twist at the end changes the narrative completely. The dream follows Todorov's theory, only it starts at the disruption, this makes it confusing and non-nonsensical like dreams usually are. It also means that both the protagonist and the audience have the same lack of knowledge, allowing for more empathy to be built for the protagonist. The twist at the end changes the narrative because it reveals that everything prior to it was just a dream. This means that there is no new equilibrium, however the equilibrium prior to the dreams narrative will now appear to be the 'new' equilibrium.