STORY-TELLING UNIT: "The Meeting" Initial Ideas

Brief

Part 1
- title / idea from starting point "The Meeting"
- fiction (comedy, thriller or drama)
- 2 main characters meet, 1 main location
- 25 word pitch (Sep 30th)
- draft screenplay (Oct 26th) - properly formatted 10 page screenplay with title page. A4. Stapled in top left corner.

Part 2
- 2 min trailer or first 2 mins of screenplay
- plan shoot, cast, crew, locations, shot list, storyboard, production design, props and schedule
- screenplay returned with notes for rewriting
- final screenplay and video submitted
- (December 2nd 11:00 - 12:00 - Maidstone) - final 10 page screenplay, 2 min video as a quicktime file and updated R&D journal)

Research and development journal:

Contextual research:
- 3 short film dramas - review - how influenced own project? (Find on Youtube or UCA Library)
- One British TV drama - review and influences
- 2 TV screenwriters - key work, how they developed it and interest for you & project
- Research art of screenwriting

Project research:
- source material
- visual material (e.g. images)

Development:
- initial ideas and how these developed
- testing ideas
- 25 word pitch
- script and camera workshops
- script developments

Production notes:
- evidence of prep and planning

Project evaluation:
- what worked? what didn't? what did I learn? what could I develop?

Initial ideas:
- 2 characters meet at a halloween party (both characters planned to go with friends who then can't make it. Leads to the two main characters meeting.)
- 2 characters meet on the pier as one stops the other from a suicide attempt.