Research and Planning: Our Synopsis

‘Day by Day’ is a short film about an unexpected love story of two strangers who share their commute to work. It explores the concept of the passing of time through a year, with just the main two characters and the sharing of their narratives.
As we follow the day to day routine of these two lovers, on the tube, walking down the street and even getting ready. The two seem so separate in their lives, but also connected by the demands of everyday life. We use the strenuous commute on the London tube every morning, builds to a relationship which results in the two characters falling in love.
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The narrative begins; a woman is in her bedroom getting ready for work. We follow her out of her house and to the tube station. This is where she meets our second character; a tall attractive man dressed in a suit. They make brief eye contact but it is clear there will be a connection between the two during the story. As the day to day routine goes on through the year, the connection between the characters build stronger, and results in their final meeting at the end on the millennium bridge.

The title of our short film was chosen quite quickly, we came up with other titles such as 'The Tunnel' due to the use of commuting and tubes then the really obvious one of 'The Tunnel to love' but after discussion we didn't want this to be too cliché, as our 'love story' already is. Another choice was 'Day to Day' which we agreed on that we liked, which has no obvious link to the love story, but demonstrates a mature title, that would make an audience think. We then officially changed it to 'Day by Day' which just had a better ring to it, and highlighted the strenuous days of the year of the commuters.

The way we will present the changing of time is hopefully through season change, if we are able to do it in our short time keeping of filming, but we can also use other motifs such as coats and umbrellas to demonstrate this, and the mise en scene of the characters costumes. These visual motifs will be effective and we will not use a repetitive action, so that we can demonstrate the passing of time, not the same day over and over.