But more importantly it sparked the idea for the short I am making for my Capstone. A short written four years after first thinking of it and one year before ever shooting a single frame.
My Capstone is the story of a man that finds himself wondering aimlessly through life, months after losing his job. It all comes to a head when a foreclosure letter is found by his wife.
I wrote a simple script for a five minute short, but decided to dive into the narrative a little more bulking up the back half of the story. Originally the short ended as the man tosses the foreclosure letter in the trash. After some thinking I felt it would more challenging for me, and the actors, if I added conflict between the man and his wife.
As it stands now there is a happy little ending because most people want to see that, but some ideas have been thrown around for a very dark ending. I'm on the fence right now with it, but feel that like real life this short could end with tragedy.
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