Rewriting the 'Shoes' Script.

Over the last couple of weeks, the task we have been given by our lecturer is to rewrite the original 'What would you do for a pair of shoes?' script and make it into something we would want to make into a film.
We started out by discussing what we thought were the main themes within the original, and how we could take those themes and adapt them into a different story. There were a lot of different ideas about what the main themes were. Most people felt that the main themes in the original script were those of desire, materialism, attention, possession, or more generally 'needs and wants'.
Our group decided that we wanted to focus our film on the idea of desire as there was more potential to expand and develop ideas.
An important decision that we reached as a group was about the look at atmosphere of the film. Having watched several short films as research for this module, there was one that stuck in my mind.



Post-It Love is only about 2.40 minutes long and there were several reasons that I particularly liked this film. I enjoyed the fact that it was a very simple but unusual story, I liked the fact that the entire film contained no dialogue and I also liked the use of music. I thought that these elements could be used, or at least considered whilst brainstorming ideas for our film.

As a group we decided that we wanted to focus on visuals more than dialogue and I thought that an interesting way to do that, which also linked in with the story would be to have the whole film set in a black and white world where each person has one item of clothing which is brightly coloured, eye catching, and totally individual to them. The story of the film would then focus on one girl who did not have such an item, and would follow her desire to find that item and fit in with everyone else.
The look we are hoping to achieve within the film is something like this:The only things in the film that would be shown in colour would be one item of clothing on each character, everyone accept the main female character.

We also decided as a group that we would follow the original script in some ways, and use it as a platform from which to build ideas. We then decided to individually come up with ideas about the story and then bring them all together in our next seminar.