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Group Work: Short Project

Fast Story Production.

The Brief

We have been tasked to create a short story with 3 different prompts: a photographer, a serial dater, and a train station. We have to focus on the who, what, where, why and when of the story and create a brief outline of the story to present to the class.

The Idea

A catfish (Lena Dunham) has been using a photos of an instagram model and old school friend, Michele Alves, on her dating profile for years, hiding her real identity from everyone she's spoken to. She finds a connection with Nick (Jason Sudeikis) whom she meets through the account and it's time to come clean, but what happens when she sees Michele at the same train station she's meeting her date at?

The Pitch

Today is the day; Alice is meeting Nick at the train station. She's terrified of what he will think of meeting the real her. She's at the train station half an hour early, just to be sure. Everything is going to plan, until she hears "Alice?" from behind. It's Michele. The whom she knew from school, and who's photos she used on her profile. Then ensues a ticking time bomb- when Nick gets off the train, what will Alice say when he approaches Michele and not her? Alice ends up coming clean and being embarrassed, but now she can delete her catfish account and be her real self online.

Who are the Characters?

The Catfish


This is Alice. She's awkward and painfully relatable. She's 30 years old and never moved out of her hometown. She works as a secretary for an accounting company where she clocks in, does her job, and clocks out again just to go home and talk to people online, only she uses fake photos of someone she knew from school. She's afraid of being recognized but has decided that Nick is the right person to come clean to.

The Date

This is Nicholas (his friends call him Nick). He's divorced and back in the dating scene. He's going to meet Alice at the train station- however his image of Alice is very different to the real person.

The Instamodel

This is Michele. She's an Instagram model and old school friend of Alice. Alice has been using her photos on her profile for years. Although Nick has been talking to Alice, this is the face he has put to the name.

The Location

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This is the location we imagined for the short story. This is Derby train station and we chose it because it's a semi-modern medium-sized station. We didn't want to choose one too small as this would make the coincidence of Michele and Alice meeting too unbelievable and too specific. We also didn't want a large train station for a similar reason- it wouldn't be believable for them to be in the same place because they could have been in separate places of the train station and never seen each other.

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