Hi guys it's me Santi,
You might've noticed that the script of our opening has something that the others don't have: a title!
That's because we found the name for our film! the name is....
Ataraxia
Finding the name for our film was a bit silly, because we know that our film has an overall theme of depression and learning to enjoy every moment. Our film uses the planet as a sort of metaphor, but i'll dive deeper into that in another post.
We wanted a name that reflected both the theme of depression and something that sounds like it could be the name of a planet or a cosmic name, so we started looking at our dear friend theasurus.com
We wanted a name that reflected both the theme of depression and something that sounds like it could be the name of a planet or a cosmic name, so we started looking at our dear friend theasurus.com
While it wasn't much help, we kept looking through multiple vocabulary websites to find a word we were happy with. We then thought: what if we instead looked for a word that meant the opposite? A word that meant release, calm, serenity, something hinting towards what our main character would be feeling by the end of the film.
During this search, we found “Ataraxia,” which is described as a state of complete peace and freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety. The term is Greek and is connected to a philosophy where it signifies the highest form of happiness as inner peace. The name was perfect for our film in two ways. First, it looks and sounds otherworldly and cosmic, which is exactly what we were looking for! Second, it captures the emotional journey of our protagonist, who begins in depression and disconnection and ends in tranquillity and acceptance. The narrative arc is powerful because it contrasts the character’s initial state with the concept of Ataraxia.
Speaking of the emotional journey of our protagonist...
The story of the entire film.
If you don't know the story of our opening, here's a summary.
We don't want to get too deep into the rest of the film, as we wanna focus most of our efforts on the actual opening, but its important to have an idea of where the film is going later, so that the opening doesn't feel like a short film by itself.
After the opening, our character is shown having to deal with her friends and family struggling to grasp that their life is ending in a couple of months from this planet, yet Halley (the name of our MC) is unbothered, it's her way of "coping" with the situation. A close friend of her is then introduced, and this friend helps Halley discover the beauty of life, and learning acceptance without being sad. A source of inspiration, though a bit silly, is the movie "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," which centers on a family that has to save the world, though they're a bit dysfunctional. What I want to focus on is the dynamic between the daughter and the father in the movie, and how they learn to accept each other's difference through the events of the movie, as they travel across the country to save the world. A similar approach we want to take is that our main character and her friend travel across the state in order to fulfill a bucket list or a to-do list, and on the way our main character can learn acceptance and finding the beauty in otherwise inevitably bad moments.
Overall, we want the film to be wholesome, it's less sci-fi and more drama. (And no, the two characters won't fall in love, they're strictly friends.)
Until next time, Santi :)
We don't want to get too deep into the rest of the film, as we wanna focus most of our efforts on the actual opening, but its important to have an idea of where the film is going later, so that the opening doesn't feel like a short film by itself.
After the opening, our character is shown having to deal with her friends and family struggling to grasp that their life is ending in a couple of months from this planet, yet Halley (the name of our MC) is unbothered, it's her way of "coping" with the situation. A close friend of her is then introduced, and this friend helps Halley discover the beauty of life, and learning acceptance without being sad. A source of inspiration, though a bit silly, is the movie "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," which centers on a family that has to save the world, though they're a bit dysfunctional. What I want to focus on is the dynamic between the daughter and the father in the movie, and how they learn to accept each other's difference through the events of the movie, as they travel across the country to save the world. A similar approach we want to take is that our main character and her friend travel across the state in order to fulfill a bucket list or a to-do list, and on the way our main character can learn acceptance and finding the beauty in otherwise inevitably bad moments.
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| Conceptual rendering of what a scene later in the film would look like. Created using OpenAI's DALL-E 3. |
Overall, we want the film to be wholesome, it's less sci-fi and more drama. (And no, the two characters won't fall in love, they're strictly friends.)
Until next time, Santi :)
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