Group Meeting #1 – Thursday Week 5 (+ homework)
Today, SQUADRON was formed – Myself, Laura, Jackson, Alex and Sarah. We decided on the thriller genre, and selected the beautiful Warrandyte to be our main location. We created homework for ourselves (haha) and decided to go away as individuals and create five different potential scripts. We divided it as this:
Bonnie– main character with people coming after her from her past
Laura– Confrontation between 2-3 people
Alex– suspenseful monologue
Sarah– main character with mental disorder and you never see the person following her
Jackson-main character taking care of her grandmother and there is an evil after her
The following piece of writing is my potential theme/script:
“Haunt”
Idea: Bee (girl) is having a quiet moment in the ~woods~ before her first day at her new job. Along the way she is approached by various people from her past that she is forced to reconcile with.
Intro:
[Bee is walking through the woods on the way to her new job, this is her internal/external monologue];
Bee narration: “In order plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past”
Bee: Yeah…right
Scene 2:
[Dramatic music and heightened sense of tension and pace increasing to emphasise that Bee has been caught off guard]
Bee’s ex: You realise how you hurt me don’t you? You walked away, pretending what you did to me, to us, was all okay. Bee you don’t know how you hurt me
(expand on this monologue in full script)
Scene 3:
[Dramatic music continues…a feeling of chaos ensues]
Bee’s older sister; Mum and Dad were always so proud of you. Their second born girl, said to prosper just like me. Bee they watched you grow, they let you achieve more than I ever could. I felt so unloved. It was never your fault, but my presence meant nothing to them because of you. I had no choice but to leave..
Scene 4:
They say don’t worry about people in your past, because there’s a reason they didn’t make it into your future. They didn’t say anything about those people haunting you though….
We decided as a team that it would be best to combine the final selected scripts so we could get at least two major ideas out there coming from two different individuals thoughts.