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The film would be relatively short, approximately 3 minutes long – no longer than 5. In a quick summary, the film tells the story of a girl who sees a boy across the room with headphones on, completely focused on his work and unaware of her presence, and the girl mustering up the courage to approach him but ultimately failing to do so. The film will begin with a flashback of the first time the girl notices the guy, before coming back to real time, employing similar shots as the flashback in order to mirror her first sighting of him.

It will be filmed in a library or some other quiet places as most of the ‘action’ that takes place in the film are mainly of the girl looking at the boy and how indifferent he is to the situation. It will have repetitive shots, going back and forth between the girl and the boy, showing mainly the girl looking at him occasionally. It will feature over-the-shoulder shots and objective/subjective shots. It will also have voice overs of the girl’s thoughts to allow us to hear how she is battling with herself to come to a decision of whether she should go up to him.

The film has a relatable factor in that it is often seen as strange when a stranger approaches a person they do not know and how people have an internal struggle when coming to a decision when placed in similar decisions. And of course, how more often than not, people hype themselves up to do something they’re afraid to do but eventually bailing out on actually doing it because they have fear of rejection or failure.

The point of the film is to allow people to feel a connection to it and to have them create their own interpretations of what will actually happen between them if the girl actually approaches him, or rather, had approached him. Will they go out on a date? Does she remind him of someone she knows? These are just a couple of questions which might leave viewers asking. For me, the entire point of her approaching him is that she just wanted to say ‘hello’. But obviously that doesn’t happen and it just leaves you asking ‘what if…?’