Pre-Production: Developing Film

 Introduction

Bonjour everyone! I hope you are doing so great! Today, I will be talking about developing this film. So for today, I will be defining what a logline is and our film opening's logline. :) 

Work

Creating a logline
A logline is a one-sentence summary or description of a movie. Loglines incorporate the essential elements of your screenplay such as the main character, setup, central conflict, antagonist. Structure: [protagonist] + [inciting incident] + [protagonist’s goal] + [central conflict].  Example: Logline: "A young man is transported to the past, where he must reunite his parents before he and his future cease to exist."
Develop a logline for your movie.
Protagonist	Inciting incident	Protagonist's goal:	Central conflict:
Mercedes	Has an obsessive friend	To retain a healthy friendship  Christine wants Mercedes to herself	Christine wants Mercedes to herself
Define the logline for your film. Ideas should be clear, concise, and enticing.
Logline: Mercedes has an obsessive friend named Christine and aims to keep a healthy friendship with her, even though Christine wants Mercedes all to herself.   Mercedes has an obsessive friend (Christine), and only wants a healthy relationship with her, but does not know her friend wants her all to herself. This event takes place inside Piper High School’s campus, during school hours (7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.). Each opportunity Christine gets the chance to be in Mercedes' life, she takes advantage of that, because of her deep-rooted infatuation with her. One day after Mercedes and Christine crossed paths and bumped into each other in the hallway, they all went downhill from there. We introduce the severity of Christine’s lust for Mercedes is in the beginning shots of the film, the hook, where upbeat music plays in the background, but has a subtle unsettling undertone as Christine is shown chanting, “she loves me, she loves me not, she better love me,” which refers to Mercedes. Our film is meant to reflect the unnerving feeling of having a friend with ulterior motives, who is secretly obsessed with them (or a perception of them), which takes them in a down-spiraling path of doing whatever it takes to be around them, regardless of possible consequences. To add, our film challenges the convention of the protagonist being the first character introduced, and instead, our team attempted to show Christine’s intentions behind her actions towards Mercedes and those around her. This paradox of drama and complex human emotion is terrifying, not in the physical sense, but more in the psychological sense, as it holds a black mirror to the dark places of the human psyche of wanting to be wanted.

Reflection

In conclusion, a logline is a one sentence summary of a film. Our logline is: Mercedes has an obsessive friend named Christine and aims to keep a healthy friendship with her, even though Christine wants Mercedes all to herself. The purpose of a logline is to show all the important elements used in a film without a 5 page summary. Thanks to my teammate Marley B for completing this section! P will be taking her leave..