So finally, I have come up with an idea for "The Meeting". I came up with the idea after researching through some short film scripts, my main concern was to write a story which would only be ten pages long, with that in mind I didn't want to reach too high.
So I came up with the simple idea of a young "20-something" year old male called Joe Wilson, down on his luck and unfortunate with love. He works in a local newsagents and likes the look of a regular customer called Rosey White, thinking life is too short and he should just "go for it" he asks the girl out. The girl rejects him and his boss Ed Moore sees this, and feels sorry for Joe. Ed initiates a heart to heart and asks if Joe is still a virgin, to Ed's surprise Joe admits, he is indeed still a virgin.
Feeling bad for Joe, Ed pulls out a card with a half-dressed woman, and an address. It was a prostitute's card. Confused, Joe rejects it but Ed insists he take it even if he doesn't use it, so he does. Sitting in his bachelor flat later that night feeling lonely, he decides to drive to the address.
Feeling nervous he pulls up to where he sees a girl in the shadows. She knocks on his window and assumes that Joe is there for one thing. To that he agrees, and they become more comfortable with each other on the drive home to his flat, finding out her name is Emily Rodgers, who wants to go to university to study medicine.
Arriving at his flat to her surprise Joe suggests they watch a film, then after that he continued to cook her dinner. After having a series of heart to hearts, he pays her £50 and drops her home, telling her that she is good company and he doesn't need or want sex and that wasn't his intention.
The next day he comes to the same address, picks her up and suggest they go to the cinema, and they drive off into the sunset and "live happily ever after"
Obviously it needs some work, but that is my basic outline, it is a romance/drama and set in Chatham. I think I can fit this into ten minutes. Well I hope I can.
this has potential, but you should focus in on that one first meeting between the two of them... thats where to set your story. Don't move it on from there. Explore that. Maybe its mistaken identity, he's there for one thing, she thinks he's there for something else....?
ReplyDeleteokay, I shall pop in tomorrow to discuss, glad it has potential though, and is do-able :)
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