Camellia Project Pitch

In the beginning, we had one goal: make a story that an audience can relate to. We talked about our struggles and one group member brought up her story of how she had gone through a very painful loss and and how she overcame it with the support of the people around her. From her experiences, Camellia was made.

Our project is about a family who became dull because of a recent lost. Two people, the daughter and her father, are looking for comfort but they don't know how to approach each other. A pendant that used to belong to Camellia's mother, and her diary made her connect once again with her father.

The Camellia means love, affection, admiration and a longing for someone and is given to someone who is missed.

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Grayscale & Colour

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Beginning / Focus to Daughter

- Establishing shot: A lovely house is shown.

- The camera zooms in at the window, where Camellia is seen writing on her desk.

- The camera is panning, and stops at Camellia, still writing.

- She is seen writing on her diary, and her notes are shown.

- She looks at the pendant with a smile on her face, and walks up to her door.

- She peeks outside her room, and walks down to the hallway that's leading to the living room.

- Camellia's dad is seen sitting down on the couch, he has a very depressed expression on his face.

- Camellia tries to ask her dad to come with her to her mom's grave but as she opened her mouth, she froze. She didn't have the courage to ask him.

- She left her pendant on the couch beside her dad.

- She walks to the door, looks back at her dad and left their house alone.

- She is seen walking to the town.

- While walking around at the town, she saw happy kids with their family.

- She felt jealous about their connection, their happy family.

- She turns her head, and kept walking forward, leaving the town.

Middle / Focus to Dad

- Dad is still depressed on the couch, and can't stop thinking about his recent lost ( hasn't move on).

- A beam of light from the door's little window, hits the pendant.

- The light reflects to the dad's face ( a reason to notice the pendant ).

- He is blinded by the light, and notices the pendant left beside him.

- He takes the pendant, and looks at it.

- He notices their family picture, realizes that he missed his connection with his family, and it's time to move on.

- He stands up, and went to his daughter's room.

- He looks at her daughter's room and it was empty. His daughter gone.

- He saw her diary open, and reads it.

- He rushes out her door, and the diary fell from his hand.

- The camera zooms in to the diary falling. The page was left on Camellia's drawing/notes of how she misses her dad's affection.

- The dad went out to town looking for his daughter ( he now realize that, he only have his daughter and he should take care of her, without her he'll be all alone ).

Ending / Focus to Both

- The daughter is seen crossing on the bridge.

- She's at the forest.

- While walking around the forest, she saw a flower bush ( camellia ) that caught her eye.

- She decided to get some for her mom - after she picked some camellias, she gets a flashback.

- Flashback: her mom is seen with Camellia under a tree. The mother made her daughter a flower crown made of camellias.

- Camellia is seen smiling, and it transitions to present her, where she is seen being lonely.

- She was so happy but now she's sad

- Dad is still looking for his daughter, he's tired and sweating

- Daughter reaches her destination, the grave of her mom.

- She stands for a while and kneel in front of her mom's gravestone with the flower

- she gives the flower to her mom - she was down because she's the only one who's celebrating mom's birthday