MDA2100 - Pitch Idea

This is the pitch idea I read out in class as part of our assignment:

‘One Night Only’

                ‘One Night Only’ is a romantic drama detailing the start of the repair of a heart, not the usual two hearts joining together.

                Almost a cross between 2011’s ‘Weekend’, with certain, more serious elements from the rom com ‘Friends with Benefits’

Sean, the protagonist, is a single, 21 year old Gay man who lives in London, who after having his heart broken twice in the past year has resorted to drinking and meaningless flings to get the attention he craves. His main goal is, actually to find someone who will love him and treat him with affection. His obstacles are the fact that as a person, he puts more into relationships and gets feelings for others quicker and more than they do, even if they aren’t usually 100% into the relationship like he is. This being why he gets heartbroken in the first place, he tries to deal with it by having meaningless flings, (his situation during the start of the film), though this is an obstacle, as while he gets ‘attention’, he doesn’t get the love and emotional attachment he really wants.

                It is only when he meets Jonah, an Australian 23 year old, travelling in London and they share one of Sean’s usual nights together, that they start talking about Sean’s life, and how he doesn’t, once they start talking, seem like the person who would usually do this. After talking they begin to share a bond, and it is when, during the next day, that Jonah declares it’s too bad he has to go back to Australia, because they could have had something special, that Sean has a revelation about his life, realising that the meaningless flings are only giving him short-term satisfaction, and not the emotional love he really wants. Realising he shouldn’t be doing this as it’s not helping him, he starts clearing up his flat (and life), leaving the prospect open that while not having meaningless flings, he will look for something more serious and perhaps take things slower and differently than he usually does.

                The story is more the Ritual Occasion structure, because while Sean seeks meaning flings, his obstacles were initiated mainly due to having his heart broken by somebody else, not something he directly did, and it is only the events initiated by Jonah which bring about the small realisation about what he has been doing and leave the future open for change.