outline de world needs you

WORLD NEEDS YOU

By

Ines Alcolea Llopis

Comedy and society critic

One-Page Outline

Draft #

04 April 2011

Ines Alcolea Llopis

Arfon Hall, Holyhead Road, Gwynedd, Bangor, LL57 2PJ

ines.alcolea@hotmail.com

Working Title: World needs you

Genre: comedy and society critic

Logline:

Mat is a medium-aged man who works for an agency of super heroes. He is about to be 39 years old and he is thinking about leaving his job and starting a family.

Story Synopsis:

My idea about a short film is about a man, Mat, who is a super hero and works for a super heroes agency. In the first part we can see how Mat catches a bank robber and everyone is happy and clapping him. Then we see the changing room, everyone congratulates him and his friend Toni says him to go out later. Outside of the agency he meets Olly, a new employer who is really excited about their job; he is really annoying and at the end Mat invites him also to go out with his friends due to Olly doesn’t know anyone. Mat goes to his home, makes dinner and, despite the important achievement, he looks sad. His house is really poor one, with basic tools and not much furniture.

Later he meets with his friends Toni, Sarah and Jerry, all of them work with Toni, so they are super heroes. They congratulate him and he announces them that he’s going to leave the job. They start then a discussion about he wants to change his life due to next day he is going to be 39 and he feels alone even he liked that but now he has realize that he doesn’t want to be his whole life that way. So from here on it start a conversation about several topics in life: family, work, youth, unsuccessful projects… which just is interrupted by Olly who is asking where the super-heroes are meeting. They quarrel him due to nobody has to know that they are working for the agency. That way we meet more Olly, who is one week old in the agency and is really excited. He’ll become the counterpoint in the conversation about leaving working and the bad points of being a super-hero.

At the end they all leave Mat alone finishing his beer with Toni. He asks if he is going to look for Marian, the object of his infatuation. Mat says that she is married, he saw her some months ago and that was what made him start to thinking about his life.

Character Biographies:

Mat: he is the main character. He is a man really self-confident who never had any problem with living alone. In fact, he preferred it, because that way he has ever done what he wanted. Anyway now he is thinking about his sense of live and he feels lonely.

Toni: is the best friend of Mat. He’s a really determined person who likes help each other. He is really satisfy with his work, his only family is his ill mum and he likes make different activities by his own such as gardening, painting, cooking…

Olly: he is just arrived to World needs you. He is really excited about the idea of being a super hero and he has been training all his life for that; it was his objective and now he is enjoying. He likes going out with friends but, as he is now a super hero, most of his friends have leave him and he feels alone but he wants to make new friends now.

Statement of Intent:

The theme of this short film is the sense of life and the age. People see different things depending of the age and period of life, some events or reactions that a person do in a determined moment of his life is not going to be the same ten years later. I would like to explore that theme by the reactions and conversations of our characters, the main one; Mat who is the one who has the dilemma of changing his life or not, then we find Toni who is his best friend and he overcame that dilemma by knowing himself and going on with his life and what he liked. On the other hand we find Olly who is a new integrant of the agency and will give the contra-argument of the situation remembering the force of the young ideas.

The tone of my short film would be an informal one. I want to treat this theme with a bit of humour and critic. As we can see, the main characters are super heroes, so according with that extrovert idea I will talk about a common one.

I would like to tell this story because I think is a new and funny way of talk about a common theme. The main idea is being original and trying to communicate something and I want to talk a little bit about the sense of life. This theme is not a new one at all, but I want to be original and give another perspective by realising that super heroes are persons at all –which normally is not shown in super heroes films- and that everybody has the same worries.