Evolution of our Plot - By John

Our plot has gone through several different versions incorporating the idea of capturing memories. We decided against making the main character be on his death bed, looking back over life. The original idea was for him to go back to key moments and remember them, as though his life was flashing before his eyes. A similar idea we had was of someone who looked back on all the things he couldn't do, and tried to relive them in his head.

The plot line we decided to stick with is far more feel good. The main character goes through a day of his life and frames parts the wants he wants to remember with his hands, much like a photographer would if they wanted to see what a scene might look like. He does this throughout the film, and highlights what he enjoys, what he likes about his day. Midway through, we would have our protagonist walk passed a girl whom he admires. He would frame her like the rest of his enjoyable moments, and move on with his day. Right at the end, in the last scene, they would cross paths again, and this time they go to frame each other at the same time.

Originally, the protagonist and the girl would be going around taking these hand pictures of each other in alternating scenes. However, this didn't make much of a plot, nor did it leave any feeling of feel good. If anything, it was far more creepy than romantic. We were going to have them meet and frame each other in the end, just like our final plot line.

Our plot then evolved into just following the protagonists interaction with this girl, and taking "pictures" with his hand. This, however, gave off the completely wrong idea and made the film seem far more creepy than feel good. In an attempt to fix this, we decided that a monologue would be needed to portray the main character's emotions correctly - which we eventually kept in our final idea as well.

The process that we have gone through has been extremely helpful for the evolution of our plot line, without it we'd be stuck with a story that just wasn't gripping enough, or we couldn't get 5 minutes out of. Going through several iterations of the same idea has created more and more ideas and has, when brought all together, after trimming off the excess, has given us a relatively good plot for our film.