Millie Canavan-Rossin
Media Student
Short Film
Proposal & Treatment
Production Role: Lead Cinematographer
Project Type: Short film
Project Title: Imaginary Soulmate
Logline: Unstable orphan Beatrix lives in a forest. With reality challenged she questions the wider world, looking for her place in it. Is it in the arms of another?
Outline: Beatrix is laying on the floor feeling nothing but emptiness. She is full of guilt as Beatrix loses her mum and dad, now she has been living in the woodland as she ran away from her foster care as she was being mistreated. She starts to hear a boy voice in her head and Beatrix feels comfort in that moment. She looks up and see a ghost like shadow of a boy whose name was Dream. This 5ft’2 gothic looking boy was actually a dream. The only thing, was he was in her imagination? It is all fake, but he keeps appearing in front of her
Beatrix is falling in love with Dream however he isn`t real and she is really happy, but it might get ruined. She starts to talk to Dream in public but again he is not real but she soon she will realize he is not real. She then goes to the doctors where she gets diagnosed with schizophrenia. This then explains all the things that have happened
Target Audience: I think my target audience is teenagers from about 13 years old. It is for people who like a love story that has fantasy in and probably will appeal to more females than males because of the love theme
Rating: PG
Genre: Adventure/fantasy/drama
Equipment I Will Need: a camera and tripod
Justification: To learn more about cinematography and give filming short films a try and to try to expand my knowledge on it.
Movie inspo: I would like to take shots that are similar to what we see in: Splash (1983) and Enchanted (2007)
Example Camera Angles
Eye Level Shot
A shot where the camera is positioned directly at a character or characters' eye level. It's considered a “neutral” camera angle, and it won't distort or over-dramatize a scene but rather to give the viewer a very familiar perspective.​
Full Body Shot
A full body shot enables us as spectators to see emotions play out on the characters face whilst also enabling us to see their physicality, body language and their actions. These types of shots are used to capture the character or subjects setting/context of character
Full Body Shot
A full body shot enables us as spectators to see emotions play out on the characters face whilst also enabling us to see their physicality, body language and their actions. These type of shots are used to capture the character or subjects setting/context of character
Knee Level Shot
To emphasize a character's superiority if paired with a low angle. It's not as extreme as a ground level shot but it gets the same feeling across.
Overhead/Birds Eye Shot
overhead shots are great for providing perspective on a scene — but not just any perspective. It's often used as either a "neutral" or sometimes "divine" point of view.
Ariel Shot
An establishing shot which is arbitrary without deeper meaning