In the video Frank explains his main points (advise):
- Think about your favourite book or film or any ‘good story’ you recently watched online, could you sum up its narrative into ‘one elegant sentence’ to provide its ‘topline’?
- What was its big story question, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text?"
Video © BBC, Text © University of Birmingham
From this is have learnt and aim to define in our personal treatment what the top line is and what the big question is.
These are my initial thoughts for what I would have as the top line of my short film: A girl who wants to complete her scrapbook that later turns into a bucket list before she dies.However the audience does not know that she is ill until the final shot.
The big question would be: does she have enough time left to complete it.
ogress through a bucket list of fun / challenging/ moving/ stretching experiences, without being let in on the sad secret that she is working against a ticking clock to complete her list, as she has a terminal illness. I like your and Eliza's idea for the treatment.
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ReplyDeleteSo, to get this straight, the audience track her progress through a bucket list of fun / challenging/ moving/ stretching experiences, without being let in on the sad secret that she is working against a ticking clock to complete her list, as she has a terminal illness.
Your topline and your 'big question' are promising. I look forward to the next step: develop the treatment.