A Plot Is Hatched

A Plot Is Hatched

It's summer in London (or so it seems to claim) and Cracked Lens Productions is on it's first week of pre-production for our big film A Headline Romance. Gerry, our benevolent course director, has yearned for a making-of documentary to catalogue the exciting adventures of making a student film. I am disciple of the Information Revolution and Open Source As A Solution to Everything. And I'm sure you, the world out there, is hungry for the latest scintillating gossip on what will no doubt prove to be a mega-smash in the film industry.

So, as every blog pines away at the hope that it will be the unassuming record of penultimate success, I present to thee this, the short synopsis for our short movie. Hope you'll stay around for more.

A Headline Romance

Luma, a Lebanese post-grad in London, is going out with Dan, a guitarist of Jewish origin in a band on the rise. Their relationship is beginning to flounder however, and Luma isn’t sure where the pressure is coming from. Their love for one another is certain yet it seems like arguments are cropping up from nowhere. Suddenly she makes the strangest of discoveries; bringing the landlady her daily fix of newspapers she falls upon a headline describing the Israeli / Palestinian situation that perfectly mirrors her problems with Dan. Could that simply be it? Is their love buckling under the weight of their ethnic backgrounds? Obsessed she begins buying the newspapers regularly to read a forecast of her relationship in the news. Somehow they have fallen under direct control of the headlines and there is little she can do about it!