Story-telling | Short Project

Location: Café
Characters: Photographer & Artist


Artist

Name: Hayley
Age: 21
Date of Birth: November

Personality:

• Shy
• Creative
• Insecure
• Sentimental
• Passionate
• Avoids
• Confrontation
• Panic when things go wrong
• Perfectionist

Appearance:

• Her hair is always twisted back with a clip.
• Hair colour is mousy brown.
• Wears minimal make-up.
• Sports rectangular glasses.
• Always wears a bird necklace.
• Was originally her mothers, and was given to her by her late grandmother.
• She wears blue flared trousers, a cream quarter length top and a 70s style western sleeveless jacket with dirty worn out cream converses.

Backstory:

• Lives in a first floor flat.
• To make her feel more secure as she lives in a rough area that is quite scary for her.
• Her parents died in a car crash when she was a baby.
• Her Grandmother took her in and raised her.
• She started painting because of the different stories her grandmother told her about her mother's talent as an artist.
• Painting was a way for Hayley to connect with her late mother.
• Her paintings are very sentimental and are based off her own personal experiences and emotions.
• When Hayley started university, where she studied art, she received a call from the hospital regarding her Grandmother who had had a fall and the damage was very serious.
• The Grandmother found out she had a blood clot in her brain, and didn't have much longer left.
• Hayley blamed herself for her Grandmothers fall and can't face going back to university, so she dropped out and got herself a 3-day a week job in a greasy run down café to support her rent.
• During her spare time she dedicates herself to artwork.

Photographer

Name: Matt
Age: 35
Date of Birth: March

Personality:

• Confident
• Outgoing
• Talkative
• Friendly
• Inspiring
• Creative
• Passionate
• Determined

Appearance:

• Rugged/untidy looking.
• Tall.
• Bald but wears a woolly hat all the time.
• He wears black ripped jeans and a plain dirty red hoodie with old black boots.

Backstory:

• Lives in a town house.
• In a friendly neighbour hood, a very homely area.
• He was once a shy child, but as he grew older he became more confident throughout his photography work.
• He had a very normal up bringing with both parents in a very faithful relationship.
• He started his hobby of photography because he enjoyed making memories, and also he enjoyed capturing his friends and family in a very spontaneous way that created a sense of mystery.

• Photography was a way for Matt to escape his boring 9 to 5, 5 day a week job.
• His photos usually show various emotions but are mainly portraits of strangers that he has previously met or seen in the street.
• He studied finance in university when he was younger, and gained himself a job in the bank  close to his home.
• He doesn't enjoy it very much but it helps him pay for his house, car and other daily life essentials.
• As well as his job, he runs a little photography business on the side here he sells his photos and makes some money by offering family portraits.

The Meeting

• Hayley heard about an art competition in a quirky café situated in a popular area of the local town.
• At first she wasn't sure whether to enter or not, but the photos on her beside table of her Grandmother, mother and herself together, which was resting next to her necklace, gave her the confidence to enter one of her most precious pieces of art.
• When she got to the café, the place was flooded with people, more than she anticipated, which caused her to question why she was there and panic resulting her into making a swift escape.
• As she was leaving she collided with Matt, the photographer, which caused both her and Matt's art folders, which they bought along with them, to fall on the floor, and the coffee in Matt's hand to spill all over his hoodie.
• In a panic she  picked up the first folder she saw and with an apologetic grunt she ran out the door leaving the man with a coffee stained hoodie and the wrong folder.

The Conflict

• Once Matt had realised that he no longer had his photography work and a strangers art work, he wanted to find the owner, but not before looking through her work and finding her chosen piece for the competition.
• Using social media he posted an image of the painting asking if the rightful owner could contact him so he could give it back and also so he could have his work back.
• When Hayley got home she pulled out what she thought was her artwork from her folder, but found that it was in fact the man she bumped into, Matt's photography work.
• Due to her anxious emotions at the time she didn't want to go back and just hoped that she would get her work back.
• A few weeks pass after the competition, Hayley checks her social media sites and sees a photo of her bird painting.
• The image not only has information from Matt about how to contact him, but it also has numerous likes and positive comments due to it being shared across the country.
• Hayley contacts Matt and they arrange to meet up with each other's art and photography work in hand.

The Change

• They both meet up in the same café that the competition was held at.
• Once they give each other their work back Matt compliments her on her work and tells her she needs to share more of  her work with the world.
• Matt also revealed that  he entered her painting under her name, as it was on her art folder, and she had won!
• Matt and Hayley got talking and starting sharing more of their work.
• They became good friends and met up regularly to share their artistic opinions on each other's work.
• Hayley entered more competitions and won quite a few of them giving her the confidence to share all of her paintings with the public and her social media followers.