Media Studies: Final Storyline - "Pot Luck"

 "Pot Luck"

 

 As a group we decided to use our storyline "scratch card" however we realised that many events wouldn't make sense in the film, such as a news broadcast about an unclaimed scratch card, and so we decided to change the focus to a lottery ticket, with the title of "Pot Luck" as this is a more realistic option and it allows us to use a larger sum of money as the winnings, making the main characters turn to insanity all the more understandable. The main moral concept people can take away from this short is to not let yourselves be controlled by the power of money.

Introduction

- Alarm goes off
- Hand hits alarm
- Man wakes up
- Montage of him brushing his teeth/ grooming/ breakfast etc
- Jumps on sofa
- Turns on TV
- Lottery advert
- Title of film appears:
 "pot luck"
 noun: used in reference to a situation in which one must take a chance that whatever is available will prove to be good or acceptable.

 Beginning

- Flat mate enters, tired, tells him to get some milk, says he can spend change on himself.
- Goes to shop
- notices massive queue, sighs, pushes infront of que recognisable character, both buy a lottery ticket.
- Goes home, international lotto comes on TV first three numbers
- Flat mate changes channel
- Argument breaks out
- Man storms out

Middle

- Alarm goes off
- Hand hits alarm
- Man wakes up
- Montage of him brushing his teeth/ grooming himself/ breakfast etc
- Jumps on sofa
- Turns on TV
- Unclaimed lottery win in his area
- Man starts to look for lottery ticket (starts tearing room apart)
- Time lapse (Sunset to sunrise)
- Man now exhausted, Flat mate returns from work and asks what he's doing.
- explains he's looking for winning ticket in their area and he's certain that he bought it from the shop.
- Flat mate: "You mean this ticket? I took it to work with me/ I picked it up last night"
- Man demands ticket, flatmate says he was the one who gave him the money so he should get the winning.

End

- Fight breaks out (Fight scene)
- Ticket knocked to floor
- Flat mate crawls for ticket, dragged back by Man
- Man ends up knocks flat mate out
- Man gets scared and stumbles out of the house
- Man starts to run/limp to the shop (eliptical editing next door neighbour walks into the open house)
- Woman rings police
- Man finds out he's won nothing
- Man stumbles out of the shop and drops to his knees
- Cut to black as police sirens are heard.
- Credits
- Recognised character wins lottery ticket.