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I have thought more about my initial idea for my ten minute short on Maria and her boyfriend ending up in an unexpected cold blooded riot on the castle they are visiting. However I am starting to doubt the suitability of this to the time frame that we have. This is why I have come up with a back up plan of a girl who has paranoia, she panics that her boyfriend is cheating on her due to his stand offish behaviour towards her, later in the story she finds out that he is actually planning to propose. I feel that this may be more simple and easier to write for the short film, and possibly use my initial idea for the radio script ‘Lindum’.

Tonight I did some reading of ‘Creating Unforgettable Characters’ by Linda Seger 1990. I read into how to write about an engaging and detailed character. I also read into what makes a successful character relationship and to apply contrasts between couples to make them more unique as individuals. I will be applying what I have learnt in this book to how I approach creating my main characters.

Today I wrote the first scene of my script. I expanded my idea from what I learnt in ‘Writing the Short Film’ and I started the film off with introducing the main character ‘Maria’ and also subtly introducing the conflict of the story by describing the headline of a newspaper.

Expanding on my idea for the film script, I decided to read ‘Writing The Short Film’ by Pat Cooper and Ken Dancyger (3rd Edtion). I looked at one of their exercises under the chapter of ‘Writing An Original Short Screenplay’ (pg 65) and explored exercise 12 and 13 of using visual images to build character and an optional start up point for my script.

LINDUM

Since our lecture yesterday about the Relay project, I have been thinking about ideas on what I could possibly write about which relates to the title of ‘Lindum’. As this word is a roman name for ‘Lincoln’ I have been thinking about things that relate to the city. This is when I came up with the idea about a homeless man who becomes rich by finding something historical and highly valuable in Lincoln Cathedral. I think this would work quite nicely is very relevant to the title of the film. I also feel it would be easy when it comes to the production due to the fact we are in Lincoln.