PROJECT SUMMARY!!!

This project started as a western Sci-Fi, but we quickly had to downgrade this idea to something more simple. We were quite excited to make something ambitious, but we had to be realistic. Simply doing a western, though, opened the path to be ambitious in a different way. For the first two minutes, we will use visual elements mainly to establish the beginning of a big journey. We will represent this journey by using long shots that invite the audience to join the main character in this journey. These long shots will show some mise-en-scène elements, like the costume design.

Story-wise, these shots will show the main character carrying a body to the top of a hill. She is going to bury the body of a man she killed by accident.

Here is just a sample of a similar shot of what we want.

Alzate, L. (2023, September 8). Asfixia - A Short Film. YouTube. https://youtu.be/U_0WHrSN14Y?si=Pz4RsJdNf6MGLOWM

Her relationship with this man will explore the role of women, as she will be a worker for this man, a maid. This man would have tried to abuse her, and in self-defense, she accidentally killed him. Under religious beliefs and a sense of justice, she feels that she deserves a punishment. So, she will search for the son of the man she killed, in order to give him the chance to kill her and claim the bounty on her head. The end of the first act would be her finding the son. The whole second act will develop a relationship between them. The arc of the main character will be somehow leaving this fixation she has of punishing herself when what she did is a gray and justifiable action, rather than a dark, unforgivable event. The story will develop a dynamic in which, as she gets in touch with the person to whom she feels she owes due to the pain she caused, she also is able to discover that she is being unfair with herself. As I explain in my blog post about the enneagram, this would fit in a type six. A person that attaches itself to a sort of belief as they are scared of the world, so they accept an answer and make it their one and only truth. This would translate in several ways to our character. Religion would be this truth she attaches to, as it gives her answers to her doubts, as she believes so blindly in it that she even would give her life to satisfy the moral values she has adopted from it. The progression in her arc would discover the truth that scares her: that she isn't meant to always play the role someone tells her. Not only in following these religious values, but also in relationships with men.

Scriptman, L. (2024, August 31). Writing with the Enneagram: Type 6. YouTube. https://youtu.be/qg1xzb1717A?si=HXWLM34XKKCnovRz