The Chef

As mentioned in the previous blog post, we needed to change the execution and plot of our short film ideas after the instructor meeting. For the chef, we realized that the piece would rely HEAVILY on mise-en-scene elements at the restaurant and its atmosphere. I'm sure no restaurant would allow us to film there in fear of being seen as a place that serves human meat, and it would be extremely difficult to create our own restaurant props and set design for the short film.
So the new plot is a low-income family of a single mother and child struggling to buy necessities like food, and the mother reverts to feeding her child human meat that she is able to attain at her job as a hospital custodian. The child becomes suspicious of the meat but never comes to a conclusion of whether it's animal or not because they could never imagine their mother doing that to them. This is supposed to have each character question their morality and the extent his mother would go for the child.
Here is how the new plot of the short film would be developed.