Synopsis of Edd's Dead Baby

Edd Wright                   Synopsis of “EDD’s Dead Baby”                             11/10/11

Our film titled Edd’s dead is a story about a person who has mysteriously been killed after a party. The body of Edd is found after a character walks up stairs to go to bed in the morning & as the opens the door a body falls out (Edd’s dead body). The party scene will either be used as the opening while some titles are running & then cut to a shot of a blank screen with writing saying “the morning after” or the opening scene will start with the character that walks up the stairs & discovers Edd’s body & then cut to a blank screen with writing saying “the night before” cutting to shots of the party. There are multiple arguments that take place between Edd & various other characters when Edd has left the main party & has gone to Cei’s house (Edd’s friend) for a slightly smaller “after party”. There is an argument that breaks out between Edd & a character because Edd has been sleeping with the characters fiancé. Another argument breaks out between Edd & a character who accuses Edd of stealing his bag of cocaine. The final argument that will be in the film will be about a character who is angry at Edd for breaking a valuable family heirloom.

The rest of the film will shows events from each of these characters arguments & their points of view using memory flash backs to emphasise that multiple people had a reason for having a grudge & possibly wanting to kill Edd. The 2 minutes of the film will end on a cliff hanger with no one really knowing who killed Edd.

The rest of the film will contain clues to Edd’s killer & it will not clearly show who the killer was but point fingers in the direction of someone you would least expect.

Personal comment

It was very useful for my group & I to do a synopsis of our film idea because it gives us all a good idea as to what is going on. At the same time this is just an incredibly brief over view & some things here & there may be altered & improved as we go along with the filming. The part I have written in red is one part that we have not yet decided on because we do not know which way around would give the best effect. So we will work this out when it comes to editing.
By writing out a synopsis/overview of the whole film we can look to it for reference when filming & figure out what we have filmed & what we have left to film.
From writing out a synopsis I have learnt that it is a good idea to have some kind of grounded plan of what it is that we are trying to achieve. It is always good to have some kind of plan with anything you do & by having a general guideline it means that we can change things as we go along if something works out to be better.