Proposal

Date:  Thursday 06th October 2011		Production Company: Black & Cream Studios
Director: Myles Francis		Production Crew:  Kayla Thomas - (Camera Operator,  Editor); Myles Francis - (Camera Operator, Sound Editor& Editor).

Working Title: The decided title at present is 'Honoured Love' which is a pun in regards to the themes as seen in our film; if at any stage during production, our production group opt  to rename the working title then all existing data will be rectified immediately.

Medium:  The proposed production will be a feature film which will entail of a short film lasting a total duration of five minutes

Format: The proposed production which as I've aforementioned a short film with a total duration of five minutes, is intended to be a social drama which has strong references to specific cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Duration:  The production is scheduled to last a total of five minutes 

Synopsis:  The film concept our production group have compiled is entitled "Honourable Love" which is a social drama based on a forbidden interracial relationship which was between two of the main characters Priya who's an eighteen year old girl of Indian dissent and Jamal who's an eighteen year old boy of Afro Caribbean dissent.


Their relationship which had been going on for a number of years they feel is at the highest point that they can be in in a relationship and they agree that they will both go to her house one day after college to tell her parents about them, but at breakfast one day her parents decide that they're going to give their daughter a arranged marriage. Priya meets her fiancé on webcam then retaliates saying that she won’t get married to him, she's in love with Jamal and they're going to get married. Her family are shocked and ashamed by the Revelations of their daughter not obeying their commands and dating someone who is not of the same tight knight religious culture, Her parents instigate a plan to hurt Jamal at all costs to prevent him from still seeing her daughter and due to shame that Priya has caused on their family and have her killed.

So Priya's overprotective brother sets out on his mission to find Jamal and beat him up with the help of his yobbish affiliates they capture him, give him a hiding and enforce that he cannot continue seeing Priya; which he agrees to as a precaution not to experience anymore brutality from her raging brother. The concluding part to his assigned mission from his shamed parents is to kill his now outcast sister as a result of the shame she has brought upon her family.

Not long afterwards he stumbles across her and brutally attacks her without showing any remorse, the severity of his attack intensifies as he lunches at her with a knife and stabs her repetitively, Not long after she succumbs to her injuries and dies; He then wraps her dead body in a black bin liner and shoves it a suitcase in the boot of his awaiting car and calmly drives up to High Beech where he dumps the suitcase in a dense part of the forest, showing no remorse whatsoever.

Purpose:  The purpose of the proposed production is too showing an insight to the culture behind Honour Killings within the South Asian community;

Target Audience:  The target audience for our film is split into two targets - Primary and secondary, the Primary target audience will specify for the age group 16-25 with the Secondary target audience intended for the age category 25-44, we also can't rule out that an older age category may not be drawn to watch this film but maybe not on the same level as the primary and secondary target audience; Also this film covers a fairly taboo genre which is more than likely to be an eye opener to those willing to learn and gain an insite into what occurs in the South Asian community.