Official Trailer

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 LOCATION - Dusk, outside pacific place, 6th and pine (very urban)

PURPOSE - 

• Setting up visual/musical tone of film 
• Sets up millennials as main characters
• Introduce dance elements slowly

Following one character in appropriation tee through alleyways and parking garage doors, picking up dancers along the way, until we’re at the top of the garage surrounded by full cast of dancers

We hear interview bites during walking shots 

• Possibly the interview on the phone
• Maybe doing flash clips 
• Integrate flash interview clips - walker has earphones in and then at the end show interview on the phone. 

 LOCATION - Dusk/Night, open air, rooftop garage - VERY urban, but not too “Seattle” - no distinct landmarks

PURPOSE

• Establish full cast of dancers
• Engage audience with badass choreo
• Introduce theme of cultural appropriation as main theme of The Millennial Experience with the t-shirt “White girls, copying gay guys, copying black women” and through the choreo
• Set up the theme with Interviews after the dance

Starts by following one dancer with appropriation shirt onto the rooftop, along the way they meet other dancers in the street, stairwell, elevator...they meet the rest on the roof all wearing some variation of appropriation attire.

 LOCATION  (Trade Part 1) - 10th and Pike - Cap Hill, Night

PURPOSE

• Establish Trade as a character with body language and dance
• Using Trade as the conduit to explore straight male culture
• Set up his sexually ambiguous tendencies 
• Set up gay night life scene with interview sound bytes
• Create tension between Trade and go-go dancers as he tries to hit on them 

1 dancer - Trade

Single dancer walking down street hearing first moments of muffled music from Q club in change of clothes from the rooftop scene prior. As he passes by people on the street, he gives eyes to them

Hearing more specific street / LGBTQ interview bytes during the walking.

LOCATION (Trade Part 2) - Q CLUB  ENTRANCE

Trade solo dance occurs - he references the go go dancers on the bar, they react to his presence, then enters bathroom

Transition to next scene (DL) seamlessly by following another gay male club goer out of the bathroom

LOCATION  - Q CLUB BATHROOM (DL PART 1)

PURPOSE:

• Introduce Nylon Boys  and establish tension between them and Trade
• Explain through dialogue what “trade” means in gay culture
• Elaborate on this character trait with interviews

Curious looks between Trade and a Nylon boy at the urinals and at sink, we hear interview bytes about straight vs LGBTQ culture during this scene

dancers - Trade and Nylon Boy

Muffled music and club ambience with Interview V.O.

Q CLUB DANCE FLOOR and BAR (DL B)

11 dancers - 6 Nylon Boys, 1 Trade, 4 female Go-go Girls

30 extras (3 bar tenders, 1 coat check, 1 bouncer, rest are club goers)

Following Nylon Boy out of bathroom, we see him talk about gay culture (and it’s relation to straight men) to his friends and the audience (break 4th wall).

Trade exits bathroom and gets a drink at the bar near Nylon Boys

End with Interview on projector wall

• Themes on being bi-sexual vs. bi-curious

LOCATION - QUINN’S in CAP HILL (OR SIMILAR PUB)

PURPOSE:

• Establish hook up culture and dating apps 
• Examine heterosexual dynamics in the dating world
• Introduce theme of technology by incorporating phones as props into the choreography.

LOCATION - BIG BEDROOM (AirBnB sourced), THEATER/STADIUM

PURPOSE:

• Establish Dream Boy as a character
• Create a scene of fantastical realism 
• Uncover gay men’s aspirations / overcoming adversity / living with pride

Dream Boy at home, alone in bedroom singing to himself

 -Dance begins -> purse first girls appear ->  suddenly they are on a huge stage -> hear audience ->  number ends, camera pans -> reveal there is no audience, camera keeps circling -> back in his bedroom, alone.