Melodrama  

 

• The film will be framed using the proscenium filming technique where the camera is a distant observer of the action that is static, and this is keeping with the traditional silent films. 

 

• I will also use title cards to make the film seem like an authentic film from the silent era as I want it to pay homage to the classic melodrama films of the early part of the 20th century. 

 

• The style of acting will be over-exaggerated since the actors will not be speaking and they will have to communicate their feelings to the audience by using facial expressions and gestures.  

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• A young man bumps into a girl who is running through a forest, she is knocked over and the man asks if she is okay, she says that she is being perused and she continues to run into the forest. 
• A few seconds after the Girl runs away a man appears and he says that the girl is a Princess and that she ran away in order to escape an arranged marriage, the man asks if he has seen her and the man lies, he says that she went in the opposite direction and the man runs of after her.  a few hours later, the man, who is the Princesses’ betrothed is seen dragging her through the forest and the young man comes up behind him and smothers him. 
• The young man walks up to the Princess and apologizes for scaring her and he tells her that he hates it when people’s free will is forcibly taken from them and he tells the princess that he will take her to safety. 

• An epilogue shows that a few years later, the Princess and the young man get married and live happily ever after.