Working Title : "In Living Memory"

I'm currently in a mind blocked state, trying my best to write the first draft of a short film for my final year individual production project. It might seem as though I still have much time to complete this, but in fact, time passes by really quickly. And so, I thought, I should write about my thoughts here, and hopefully I will be able to come up with something.

As you have noticed from the title of this post,

"In Living Memory"

Yes. This would be the temporary title of this short film I am currently writing. There are a few reasons as to why I have chosen it as as potential film title.

Here are my personal interpretations:

(1) The phrase, "In Living Memory", is actually used to remember the dead. When you read the obituaries section in newspapers, or the Christian tombstones, more often than not, 'In Loving Memory' and 'In Living Memory' were used. This idea relates the short film as we are dealing with a dead person, someone who is dear to another person. In this context, we are referring to a daughter missing her father.

(2) "In Living Memory" could also be linked to the desire of the daughter of reliving her special moments with her father.

(3) At the end of the film, we are told that the father is actually a robot, hence it is linked to be the living memory of her father, in the perspective of the daughter.

As such, I thought this title actually does works well.

The primary concern here is to decide who would be the protagonist, the main character, whose story is it going to be about? The daughter or the robot?

As we shift focus, the story would be entirely different. And it really depends on what I want.

I want it to be a melodrama of the love between a daughter and father, but in fact, the 'father' is actually a robot.

When I first visualised the film, I thought it of being quite slowly paced. The only concern I have is to withheld the attention span of the audience, making sure that it isn't boring in the beginning till we reveal that the father is actually a robot.


My tutors have been talking about the conflict of the story. Where is the conflict?

Is hard, isn't it?

I guess I'm one step nearer.

Much more thinking, perseverance, and focus, have to be put into this!!

Who doesn't want their babies to be perfect, I'm certainly not the exception.
Really getting really stressed here.
Well, so I spent some money on getting Indian food. Don't even remember when was the last time.

Rice and Chickpeas!

Geez. Hope this helps, I even have forgotten that it doesn't taste exceptionally good.


Guess, that's it for now.

Will keep developing my story.

Peace out!