This is a 12 minute short film.
**Logline**: When a famous ballerina is forced to retire due to controversy, she now lives a life of anonymity working for a struggling ad agency but then faces the choice of revealing her identity when she must fill in for a dancer during a commercial shoot that could save her career.
Genre: Dramedy
**Summary**
The protagonist is a former famous ballerina at the Royal Ballet Company in London. She quit Ballet at 25 after she was accused of killing her dance rival. It reached the tabloids and the truth was covered up by the ballet world. Now working at a start up advertising agency under a different name, with a different look she tries her utmost not to draw attention to herself at risk of revealing her true identity. However, her anonymity has put her job security in the balance as the company is forced to make cuts and only the most valuable employees can survive.
The company is close to going bankrupt but there is one last chance to save the company. They have a huge commercial with a big name brand who want a commercial involving dance. The commercial shoot is thrown into disarray when the main dancer is injured. The company has gone way over budget and can't afford a reshoot so they need someone to fill in. If the protagonist doesn't decide to fill in, she loses her job and the company loses the job and mostly goes bust. If she does fill in, she will be revealing her identity, her dark secret and thrust right right back into limelight.
There is an underlying superhero theme to the film with her almost representing the trope of maligned super who must adjust normal working life to fit in or face scrutiny for being different. Many ballet dancers after retiring find it difficulty to adjust as the ballet world is such an insular environment that occupies the vast majority of their youth.
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I'm not too sold on her being a killer as of yet but I need the initial set up (her past) to connect with the pay off (commercial shoot)
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**what do you guys think overall?**
P.S it's loosely based on a woman who was a former top ballerina who decided to turn to the advertising world after she realised there needed to be life after ballet.
**Logline**: When a famous ballerina is forced to retire due to controversy, she now lives a life of anonymity working for a struggling ad agency but then faces the choice of revealing her identity when she must fill in for a dancer during a commercial shoot that could save her career.
Genre: Dramedy
**Summary**
The protagonist is a former famous ballerina at the Royal Ballet Company in London. She quit Ballet at 25 after she was accused of killing her dance rival. It reached the tabloids and the truth was covered up by the ballet world. Now working at a start up advertising agency under a different name, with a different look she tries her utmost not to draw attention to herself at risk of revealing her true identity. However, her anonymity has put her job security in the balance as the company is forced to make cuts and only the most valuable employees can survive.
The company is close to going bankrupt but there is one last chance to save the company. They have a huge commercial with a big name brand who want a commercial involving dance. The commercial shoot is thrown into disarray when the main dancer is injured. The company has gone way over budget and can't afford a reshoot so they need someone to fill in. If the protagonist doesn't decide to fill in, she loses her job and the company loses the job and mostly goes bust. If she does fill in, she will be revealing her identity, her dark secret and thrust right right back into limelight.
There is an underlying superhero theme to the film with her almost representing the trope of maligned super who must adjust normal working life to fit in or face scrutiny for being different. Many ballet dancers after retiring find it difficulty to adjust as the ballet world is such an insular environment that occupies the vast majority of their youth.
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I'm not too sold on her being a killer as of yet but I need the initial set up (her past) to connect with the pay off (commercial shoot)
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**what do you guys think overall?**
P.S it's loosely based on a woman who was a former top ballerina who decided to turn to the advertising world after she realised there needed to be life after ballet.
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