Story Telling Unit: Idea development

 "The Meeting"

My idea for the short film:

Characters:
Male- Henry
Busy hard-working New-York business man who works for a major law firm in Manhattan, He completes the same actions day in day out, he picks up his morning coffee from the corner shop on his way to work unaware of the thousand of other thousands of other people on their way to work.

Female- Daisy
Sexy, office worker She works for a small company run by family. Hard-working and independent she believes in equality and working her way up, every morning she collects her coffee from the same coffee shop. 

Plot:
7.30am a man gets woken by his alarm. Getting ready for work he has his breakfast consisting of toast then leaves for the coffee shop.
Leaving the coffee shop at 8.30am with his Americano he heads to work passing the unknown women.
8.30am a women has been getting ready for work for an hour now and leaves for her daily trip to the coffee shop for her latte and the other 5 people in her office's cappuccino.
The women passes the man unaware of his later importance, she just walks past and into the coffee shop.
There days are the same passing by in a blur neither meeting but passing each other by.
Then one day they both meet up with friends for a blind date where their worlds they know will change forever.
6.30pm Daisy walks up to her friend and Henry, he is really happy that she is good looking but he knows she is going to have a boring, dull personality.

After discussion in groups my idea changed so it's more realistic, as I wont be able to film in New York. My new version is:

Henry:
I hardly changed this character, he is still an old fashion, good looking business man and he still collects his coffee every morning from the coffee shop on the corner. He believes he should provide for a women and she should stay at home to look after his children.

Daisy:
I changed Daisy the most, after a few ideas from people in my discussion group. Daisy is the owner of the coffee shop where my short film is based. She believes women should be treated as equals and she has every right to work as a men, Daisy is slim and very pretty with brunette hair and blue eyes. She is too busy to date and have a serious relationship which is why the have their date at her coffee shop.

The idea:
Henry still has the same routine but as he walks out of the coffee shop on this day a women, Daisy opens and holds the door open for him, he has never had a women open the door for him before so instinct he just opens the other door and walks off to work.
Daisy carries on her day, until her best friend rings her. Her friend convinces her to have a date with Henry that night in her coffee shop as she has not got time to go out.
Later that night they both go on a double date with their friends, meeting each other for the first time they seem to hit it off until they talk about a sensitive topic they don't share which cause them to disagree and argue.
They realise they would not be very good together. He realises that he will need to be more equal to women and let them be more independent and she ends up on her own, still no closer to settling down.