Synopsis.

The tale of the Lady & the cake; by Lauren Wheeler and Jade Gray.

The tale of the lady and the cake is a short silent film set around the 1950’s. Based around an old married couple who share a positive but typical relationship. The husband is your typical 50’s man who works and brings the money in, and the wife who is none the less a typical stereotype for women who stays at home and does housework and cooks etc.

After years of the same well known routine, the wife begins to let herself go and therefore a strict diet is put into order by her husband who is concerned for her welfare..

It’s the day of he’s 45^th birthday and after many birthdays together, nothing changes and just like any other day he gets up and goes to work whilst betty stays in bed to awaken and do housework. Its 9am and after Bettys husband has gone to work she gets out of bed and plans her day to get dressed, to do housework and then to bake a cake and have a mini celebration for her husbands birthday when he returns home.

This all goes to plan but meanwhile whilst waiting for her husband to return from work Betty gets very impatient and after making the cake feels very hungry but doesn’t want her healthy lunch that her husband prepared for her. As the clock ticks away Betty gives in and eats one slice of cake, feeling disappointed in herself she comforts herself by eating more until theres none left and her husband returns home to find her sitting next to the table with all cake around her mouth and on the table.

What will happen to their marriage? Will this be the end because Betty betrayed her husband? This fast pace black and white short film is bound to have you in fits of laughter.

Inspiration Week; Follow your heart.

Through looking at a few different pictures on an A4 sheet we come up with a short story/film called Follow your heart;

A young girl called Vanessa is a ballerina and has a highly religious father who is strict due to her not having a Mum. Vanessa loves butterflies and one day her gold fish starts talking and tells her to follow the butterflies that she can see. She does this and the butterflies lead her to a book that is in her house, she starts to read the book and after a few pages she finds a key that was hidden in it. The butterflies fly off again and lead the young girl into the middle of a field where a chest of drawers are there. She uses the key to unlock it and finds a letter addressed to her from her mum. Vanessa begins to get a bit chocked and a voiceover begins to read the letter out loud so that the audience understand what the letter is.

Inspiration Week; what is a story?

We brainstormed what we thought a story was and included, this is what we come up with;

- It can be fictional/ non fictional

- Biblical stories i.e. bible

- They have a beginning, middle and end

- Structure (equilibrium, disequilibrium)

- Fairytales

- Settings/locations

- Themes

- Series of events

- Plots/dilemmas

- Characters

- Educational

- Plays/scripts etc

- Stories through history

- Greek mythology

Inspiration Week.

During inspiration week one of our tasks was to write down a name and job of a male and then to continue it on by passing around your sheet of paper and writing other scenarios etc. this is the story that was given back to me;

'William Patel is a dog groomer,

Gretchin is a boot polisher,

They both met by chance at the annual meeting for the Jack the Ripper appreciation society.

'I cant play with you any longer, it hurts'

She falls over and gets up only to release an unpleasant smell.

She instantly falls in love with him and they live happily ever after...'

I feel that this exercise was useful and helpful because it was a way of getting our imaginations working and getting us in the mood for writing a short story for our short film.