Until this point I hadn’t really had an idea that I wanted to follow through with.

This story is called ‘don’t jump’. It’s about a middle-aged man who is mistaken for someone trying to commit suicide (yes very funny isn’t it!!). He’s at the top of a car park maybe on lunch break. He wants to take a better photo of the city view so he stands up on the ledge (or a step up higher to the railing) when a bystander from behind asks him how his day has been. The following encounter is ‘The man’ trying to persuade hordes of people that he was not wanting to commit suicide but take a better picture without the railing in the frame.

I wrote through the various sections of society you wouldn’t expect to see at the top of a city carpark e.g. Farmer, Sick children, War veteran etc. there would be maybe 6-9 different ‘categories’ of people there, each trying to get the man to climb off. I hadn’t really thought of an ending. One was that the man jumped off in the end because of the stress of the arguing. But the better one was when he shifts the questions to the bystanders and asks why they were up there. It turns out that they were up there to jump off but because of the audience shift the focus onto ‘the man’ instead.

The scene is meant to build in ridiculousness as it progresses.

This is the start of the script and is very rough. I’ve written it with inspiration from back and fourth dialogue seen in Monty Python sketches. I’ve used the script application Celtx for the formatting.

This is the location I’m considering filming at. Its RMIT’s Carpark so might be easier getting a permit to film here. I’ll need to get onto it ASAP. There’s car park in China town which is perfect for the shoot but I need to go and take some photos to see if its viable.

At this location ill need to film the scene from a low angle to make sure the lower level of the car park cannot be seen.

One thing I’m worried about it whether or not I’ll get bored of the is project. I don’t want to get roped into something I’m not 100% committed to.