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Research III: Chapter I Part VII: First Diemester II

What I kinda want the logo to look like 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 miscar...

Research III Chapter I Part VII : First Diemester I

In this blog, I will look at my first Conceptual Exploration: First Diemester . The terribly titled short film is outlined, the scenes and key emotions listed and the personal inspiration inherent to it are explored. Logline  A heist movie but instead of stealing something the main characters try and induce a miscarriage. Origins As I explained in Amendment I, this idea was purely conceptual, I developed it back when I first came up with it (after telling a couple of people and getting positive feedback I felt like it was an idea worth exploring even if I was at first shaky on its potential), my initial development can be seen on these blogs from last year: https://bomyburgh2again.blogspot.com/2019/08/full-term.html https://bomyburgh2again.blogspot.com/2019/09/first-diemester.html Since then the idea has seen a lot of change, I feel like it is much closer to being a personal film now, with me injecting more realistic motivations into the characters and transfor...