Final Film - Concept Generation

The journey to my final film's conception has been a rocky one. I've been through many ideas. First, I would've worked with Carla on a music video about two people finding their new homeland in an endless desert.

Secondly, it was going to be a story of a grandfather taking his grandson up a hill and telling him outrageous lies about how the world came to be.

Finally, I realised that I'd be graduating in the same year that Brexit would be enacted. The international upheaval of our generation that's cracked the conscience of the county in two and empowered the most exclusionary, villainous fascists would surely be an apt theme for my final film.

'Gloop Cafe' is about crowd mentality and how young men get lost in it. I want to make something political that doesn't beat the audience over the head with my own rhetoric, so there are themes about immigration, masculinity, jealousy and exclusion that underline the main plot about a couple whose relationship begins to fracture when a bizarre new menu item is added at their favourite local eatery.

It's so hard not to write something that's been done before. I do it subconsciously sometimes. I've drawn inspiration from Marcus Armitage, Chris Shepherd and Matúš Vizár as their loose art styles are incredibly appealing. I want to keep humour in the film.

Chris Shepherd's 'The Broken Jaw'

Matúš Vizár's 'Pandy'