This is a group project. We are free to offer our concept and related to the concept we choose, we designed and write a professional film project and pitch it. We don’t have film it but our project should tell our mini-story and express our film idea and emotions especially by exploring the potentials of language of cinema.
Group Name: ALLEGRO
Project Name: Bipolar Balance
Genre: Drama
Duration: 3-4 minutes
Logline:
Money, unites people with its usage, distinct them with its quantity.
SYNOPSIS:
People use money in daily life without conscious where it is coming from and where it is going to be. It is a common tool between each other even different races, genders and classes.
TREATMAN:
In the beginning, the door of the restaurant is opened and the owner of the restaurant is seen backwards. Mafia comes into the restaurant, the owner thinks it is a customer and turns back happily. When he sees it is mafia, he becomes upset. He needs to find money to give so, he checks the cashbox and his pockets. When he counts the money, it is not enough. So as a last resort, he breaks the frame which includes a 100 Turkish lira on the wall and gives all money to him. Then, mafia goes to the mosque and there is fundraising by an imam. He collects money into a box and mafia donates the money which came from the frame to mosque. Imam takes the box and brings it to his home at night. Then he goes to pray and that time his son goes for taking money from the box quietly and secretly. He takes that 100 Turkish Lira and goes to a woman sex worker. When he is about to leave, he gives that money to the woman as a payment. Then, she takes her daughter from primary school and goes to the second-hand bookseller. They buy some books and pay them with that money. When they are going, another customer which is a foreign traveller comes and he buys an old Turkey map. He gets that 100 Turkish Lira as a change. That guy becomes the new owner of that money. Then, he flies to his country which is Norway. He comes to his house with his suitcases and goes in. He goes to his drawer in his room and gets an empty frame from there. He puts the money inside and hangs on the wall. Then, in a big picture, a lot of money from different countries are hung in the frames to the wall. A banknote passes between people and carries stories of them and this small story is a representation of this.
Ece Kavasoglu 