This story synopsis comes off the back of the second story idea I had for Film-TV 1. It’s a classic bait and switch type story – seemingly straightforward but with a twist at the end. I love female protagonists and with the influx of dystopian, female-led series lately, I had a go at writing my own. The synopsis can also be found at the Film-TV 1 blog. My main problem is making the reveal clear enough – in class there was a bit of confusion. Hopefully this synopsis is clear enough.

Till Death Do Us Part

Alice is your typical manic pixie dream girl: she wears cute hairbows, floral dresses, boots and a leather jacket and really, really wants to meet “the one”. She spends her days in a sappy romantic comedy montage, going on awkward dates, joining clubs, trying Tinder, checking out guys in bookshops and cafes, but she has no luck. She has a deep and meaningful conversation with her best friend that is happily married (but not to “the one”, obviously, as no one ends up with “the one”). Alice’s best friend tells her that it happens when you least suspect, and that people discover “the one” at different ages and you can never predict what’s going to happen. Her sister met “the one”, but it didn’t go so well. She shows Alice a picture of her “one” and says she has fond memories of their brief time together – she stalked him for a full week before they met face to face, and they had a tumultuous experience together.

Still in a funk, Alice heads back to her house and on the way back, glances into a coffee shop and it finally happens. He’s in a coffee shop, with thick-rimmed glasses, coiffed hair and reading a Palahniuk novel. He’s the one. The one she has to kill before he kills her. She reaches down to her boot and grabs a knife, while her friend’s words about her “one” continue – she had eventually killed him but not before he left her the scar on her face. Her friend’s voice continues to echo in her head: always travel with weapons and keep the element of surprise. The cute, awkward facade drops away and she looks ready to kill.