Planning/pitches

Our genre is Drama/romance/action and we want it to be about an interracial relationship. So far I really like the idea of starting with a dis equilibrium start. So it’s all dramatic and loads of things are going on and if we were to make the rest of the time, we’d have flash backs etc to go back to the good old days! 

For our opening scene I'd like to have two main characters and the female lead actress to play a Romani gypsy, I was thinking of an actress like Angel Coulby because she is pretty but she doesn't fit into a a simple stereotype for example the blonde bimbo girl or the the dark haired tomb raider type of girl. Normal girls can relate to actresses like Angel because she's an average girl but there's more to her then her looks. 

Umm so this story is about this young couple the girl comes from a travellers background Romany traveller, so Romani travellers usually have dark skin, dark hair and their free spirited and her mums a fortune teller. The guys from Brixton he’s black and their relationships just really unusual.  

Gypsy culture.. they’re not meant to marry any one out of their ethnic group, and the fact that she’s 17 years old and she’s still not married is an issue in her family cos she’s almost 18 and she’s still not married and it’s like she’s almost past her sell by date. But she’s fallen for this boy from Brixton and she’s having to keep all these secrets. 

Opening scene 

One day she decides to just go, go out and do things she really wants to do. So she leaves which a few things and she ends up in the big bad busy world - London, loads of things are going on and it all overwhelms her but she likes what she sees.. A group of boys are around and start laughing at her because of the way she's dressed as she catches them laughing she bumps into someone and drops all her stuff and tries to pick it all up before the wind blows it all away.. then a boy runs up to her and tells his mates to shut up and helps her..  The end! 

If we had more time to plan the story and work on it then it would have been and really good story to work on however we realised that we’d need to look into gypsy culture and to research in-depth it would take a lot of time, we wouldn’t want to upset anyone or create controversy by building a story on rumours about things we’ve heard about gypsies, as they are a secretive community it would be hard to get the real facts about them. I personally think it’s a good story and it has potential.