Post Secrets synopsis task

This lesson Mrs Mathews (didn’t say Miss Knott, think that deserves extra marks) wanted us to develop creative ideas for our own short films, this meant we needed inspiration. The class was presented with a post secret each, which are secrets that members of the public write on postcards and send them into PostSecrets to be published.  The task was to derive a synopsis from the secrets. The first post secret I was presented with was - “I’M SCARED OF WOMEN WHO WEAR CAPRI PANTS”, so here is my synopsis:

Experimental Jonny meets a beautiful young woman called Sara in a bar on a crowded Saturday night. They sit at the bar all night and both feel an instant connection and immediately fall for each other. Sara invites Jonny back to her place, and of course he says yes. As Sara stands up he sees that she is wearing capri pants and suddenly images flash through his mind of various women in capri pants, smiling and laughing towards the camera. Jonny tries to ignore his fear of capri trousers, Sara is hot, and it has been a very, very long time for Jonny. As they proceed back to the apartment they bond over coffee and discover they have an awful lot in common. As they begin to make out Jonny reaches to zip down Sara’s camel colored capri pants but cannot physically bring himself to touch them. He then runs out of the apartment with images flashing through his mind of similar situations and voices screaming ‘Jonny?!?’. Sara sparks up a cigarette and looks down at her trousers, saying “fucking trousers”. Jonny is seeing running through the streets of central London in complete and utter despair.

The next post secret I was presented with was: “I BURN MY FATHER’S PORN WHEN HE’S NOT HOME”, here is my synopsis:

Eighteen year old Tommy regretfully played a part in a porn movie with his ex-girlfriend, as they broke up she posted it on the internet for the whole world to see, Tommy now doesn’t leave the house due to severe embarrassment. One sunny afternoon, Tommy’s father moves a big box of videos from the loft to the living room, the front of the box reads “Al’s Adult Shop”, Tommy’s father then proceeds to work. Thinking they are porn videos, Tommy burns them in his back garden. When his father comes home he asks for the whereabouts of the videos, and Tommy forcefully, anger raging through his veins shouts, “I burnt them dad!!”. His face drops as he informs Tommy that those videos, were the only videos left of his dead mother.

I enjoyed this task as it meant we could be as creative and as crazy as we wanted to be.