I've spent the last few days speaking with friends and acquaintances about my movie idea. I asked males to put themselves in the position of one of "Puzzle to My Heart"s heroes, Simon. Simon is a geeky gamer sort of guy with a secret love of urban fantasy and popular literature. And for our heroine, Cassandra.
I figured out what clues I'm going to use (topics include: Charles de Lint, swings, flowers, and unknown knowledge of the code creator's identity) and what books I own that fit each clue. I'm tempted to use a graphic novel but I think that would be a bit more difficult considering it's read right side of the page to left side of the page but the words are read left to right, which may cause considerable confusion.
All I'll need to do is write and print up some convincing labels and put the books on the shelves. Although I checked some of the titles I owned and saw that the campus library, where we'll be filming, has some of the books in their stacks department so I can write in my copies and do less printing of the labels since I'll need fewer than I thought originally.
I have some editing to do as far as the opening, montage, and closing of the script. The opening needs more clues about the heroine's likes so she can relate more to the revealed messages the codes disguise, less dialogue between the hero and his friend, and a smoother segue into the first code. The montage needs to include more falsified flashbacks and clues leading to the identity of the code's creator. And finally, the closing needs to be happy, as I had originally written a sad ending but my classmates voted for a happy one, saying that if the characters are going to go through all this effort, they might as well end up together. Otherwise the audience will feel unsatisfied.
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