Tempus Plot

Tempus - Plot Synopsis

"Tempus" is the Latin word for "time". It's also the only title for a movie we, as a group, could agree on.

One person’s timeline is interrupted by a time traveller who’s leaving mysterious messages throughout their life.

These notes include:

The points in their life where the notes appear are: Early Childhood (1-2 years), Childhood (7-10 years), Late teenager (16-18), Early Adulthood (19-21).

Part 1:
A child is playing with their favourite toy, they leave and come back to it, it then has a mysterious note on it. At this point, they may simply discard it, but it happened.

Part2:

An older child meets a mysterious figure, the figure gives the, an object of relevance, they go to tell their parents about is, the figure then disappears before the parents see them.

Part 3:

A teenager, obsessed with this figure, has lots of drawings of this figure, though no clear face is shown. A girlfriend breaks up with them because she thinks they’re crazy in this scene. The main character discards the figure and seems to throw them away from their life.

Part 4:

In a local pub, the main character is seen laughing with friends. Another friend enters the pub; they’ve bought a new person with them, the mysterious figure (though this is currently unknown to the main character). They get talking, the figure hands something to the main character. It has something to do with the object handed to them as a child. They remember and a sequence of reverse footage is shown, then the sequences are played from the point of view of the mysterious figure. A reaction shot of the main character is shown as they realize. “Y-you’re-“stumbles the main character “Yep!” says the figure. POOF! The mysterious figure disappears, leaving the main character speechless.

-BW

As a plot this is going to be fairly simple but putting it into shots and into a script will be slightly harder. I'm glad finally that we were able to agree on the title 'Tempus' I find this title more artistic and interesting. In the group this has been the only time that we have clashed but the majority of s loved the concept, it was just the title that got us all baffled. Once we had all agreed the conflict had ended and this is the only time in the duration of the titling that we had argued. I think that as a group we work well as we all have strengths and weaknesses and one person's weakness is another strength.

CM