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With me changing my question to focus and make individual scenes this year instead of the full shorts, I have decided that I would like to take First Diemester into feature territory, the story is overly complicated for the short film format and has more potential than I wanted to explore but which I couldn't in the restrictions of that medium.
As a feature the film will be made up of Five Chapters:
Chapter I
Nowhere to Run To; Baby!
The title card shows up after he asks his GF to marry her upon finding out that she is pregnant. The chapter starts with him finding himself in this undesirable situation and ends when he decides to take action. He finds out that she sabotaged their birth control method to have the child without his knowledge and he and his friend do some research on how to induce a miscarriage within the first few weeks. They make a couple of Plans, Plan A - using vitamins and herbs to induce a natural miscarriage, Plan B - make her go through some intense physical exercise, and finally Plan Z - scramble that embryo.
Chapter II
Herbs, Spice, and Everything Nice
This chapter starts with them putting dangerous vitamins and herbs into the food that he prepares for her, and even trying to add them to things she takes through the day (he often brings her food home), she notices something off and starts taking extra efforts to avoid these specific things. Now that she is keener she also is a bit more of a bitch to him when she finds some of the vitamin supplements and shit - it ends with her giving him some kind of passive threat and he and his friend decide they have to move onto Plan B.
Chapter III
The Bitch Runs
They have to get her to go through some extreme physical exercise and stage a home invasion to get her to run, getting someone else in the plan as well. This chapter sees the planning and execution and in the end, she proves that she is actually very capable of defending herself and fucks up one of them. She makes him feel like shit about not being able to protect her, shames him in front of the family and stuff and now there is police scrutiny. They have a big argument about him not wanting to stay with her, she uses his absentee father against him and at the end threatens to blackmail him. He has to stay and has no choice.
Chapter IV
Plan Z / Deletus Fetus
They go to their last resort and get some more folk on board who despise her, unfortunately, she also has a support group around her and in general, things are much more difficult to pull off now, they make a plan and execute it. It's very tense this part and works the most like a heist movie, his motivations are also a bit more different now, we are with him in wanting revenge and not just to escape the relationship.
Chapter V
Scramble
The plan doesn't work out and things turn into a bloodbath, symbolically representing the complete collapse of the relationship.
I think this can work as a much more layered and entertaining picture, its a new way to do a Heist movie and is interesting in its blend of comedy and drama. I will break these acts down into specific scenes and then choose one really good scene to make as a short this year - like what Damien Chazelle did with Whiplash.
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