Working Towards Our Film

Scene List
Scene 1. Int
Ryan being beaten up in a dark room by Dami
Scene 2. Ext
Ryan spots girl with his rich boyfriend
Scene 3. Int
Ryan is in the library with max looking at books and talking about the girl he has seen, max tells him the only way he has a chance is by making money. They then spot a book “counting cards”
Scene 4. Int
Fast forward cross cutting of ryan playing cards and racking in chips
Scene 5. Int
Ryan is playing a game of cards, voice over of him counting the cards, hes then grabbed on the shoulder and voice over stops. He is taken into a room.
Scene 6. Int
Ryan being beaten up in a dark room by Dami (Scene 1)

We also came up with the film title - Five Card Charlie. We came up with this film title be researching Blackjack slang and terms used in the game. We found these on Ildado.com. Five card charlie in blackjack terms is a blackjack rule variation where if you get 5 cards without busting, you win that hand. We picked this particular term out of all the others because we thought it had a good ring to it and we imagined it would be a catchy film title which related well with out film.

Group Meeting
We had a group meeting where we discussed our ideas and scenes. We came to the conclusion that there was just to many story strands to narrow down into a short 5min film. So we desided to take the basic idea of a boy trying to get a girl and take it in a new direction.
This is the scene list we came up with

Second Scene List
Opening Scene:
Open to Charlie riding his bike to college.
Scene-1
Max and Charlie are sitting in a room; Charlie is staring out window at Gabriella. Mean whilst Max’s voice is in the background trying to have a conversation with him. Charlie zones out (Imagines him approaching Gabriella, dipping her and giving her a kiss). Max hits Charlie back to reality telling him to stop staring and that he could never get a girl like Gabriella.
Scene-2
Max and Charlie walk out room and are standing outside, they hear the girl telling her friend how her and her boyfriend just broke up, and starts to describe her perfect boy. Charlie and max over hear the conversation and Charlie begins to hatch his plan.
(smartly dressed, Good looking, nice body, cool hat, laid back personality, charming & most importantly an amazing smile and someone who makes her smile) – Ideal man
Scene-3 (Montage)
Charlie goes out to try and achieve the girls ideal man, with max’s help.
Scene-4
Charlie finally gets everything together, approaches girl with a cheesy chat up line dressed in the way she had described her ideal man. Girl laughs, rejects Charlie and walks away.
Scene-5
Next day Charlie comes back, back in his normal clothes. Girl spots Charlie and realizes how hard he tried to impress her. Gabriella smiles at Charlie and scene fades out.

We desided on the title Smile because the girls ideal guy is just someone who can make her smile and smiles at her too. We also felt it gave a warm feeling to the film and it was a nice simple title.