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Shocked

A couple, Jordyn and Sierra walking down the Clacton pier on a date in Clacton on Sea. They go and sit on the edge of the pier looking into the distance and hearing the waves crash underneath them while having a normal conversation. Sierra is scared of the water so Jordyn comforts her as they sit on the edge, she points out a boat in the distance that she thought looked oddly familiar to her. Out of nowhere Sierra then gets a text from her work colleague group-chat that says 'Are you free yet?' she instantly knows why they are asking and Jordyn asks if everything is okay and she reassures him and ignores the message so she can stay with him longer. 

About 30 minutes pass by and she gets another message from her colleague group-chat that says 'I take that as a no then, Sierra. Do you have other things that are more important?' Jordyn tells her to reply and so she does by saying 'No, I'm free soon.' As she sends this, that boat she saw earlier is way closer than before and is actually moving towards the pier at a high speed. Before they realise what is even happening the boat crashes into the front of the pier and Sierra falls into the water starting to get shocked with impulses of electricity, Jordyn realises what she is and feels nothing but betrayal and sadness, he runs back up the pier leaving Sierra. 


What inspiration would you take from the films we have studied in order to make your film?

- The film 'High Maintenance that we studied is about robots and I would take inspiration from that as I used robots in my short story that I wrote, however my character Jordyn does not know that Sierra is one and that he then feels betrayed for not knowing but also because she is not actually real so he fell in love with the idea of her. 

- Another short film we studied was 'Portals' and in some way I took some sort of inspiration from it as Sierra's 'work colleagues' are really just the people who created her and watch her adapt etc. And so when she didn't listen to them when they asked if she was free so she can go meet them for some checkup that she didn't respond to, therefore making Sierra pay and then capturing her by crashing into the pier where she and Jordyn were and taking her back as Jordyn left her. So in the Portals film, the main character tries to escape and thought she did but she really didn't and instead got captured/in-prisoned again.

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