Ideas

For this brief we kept with the emotion of anxiety and started coming up with ideas with our two minute in mind. We knew we wanted to keep the film light hearted and centred around relationships.
Our main initial idea was more of an elaboration of the two minute in which we would see the protagonist before the date getting ready, then we would re-write and re-shoot the actual date and work on the things we felt we could inprove from the first film and then further the story after the date.
We wanted to play with the idea of building the character up to over come his anxiety and then possibly have it return. I liked the prospect of shooting the character in the same locations and doing the same things before and after the date except things have changed. Using repetition to show the character's attitude.
At this point ideas were coming very slowly and then Tony came to us with a new idea which we had a meeting about and took further.

The idea was basically the a terrible speed dating event in a village hall. We follow an anxious young man named Tom to this event. When he walks in the place is dead, he is met by an eccentric woman who is running the night. She ushers him in and he notices that the only other person in attendance is a beutiful young woman sat at a table. As the older woman is getting the night started she is interrupted by the arrival of Dale, an arrogant man who walks in like he owns the place.

The story carries on from there to take the protagonist up and down through emotions. At one point setting aside his anxiety only to be brought down again.