Development Notes - BP5

Development notes

At the start of writing my script I started off with the idea that I wanted to have a plot twist towards the end of my script to leave the audience shocked.  I developed the idea of emphasising life vs death.  I came up with a logline for my story to help to develop further ideas on how to structure my script.  My logline was “A 30-year-old man meets a lonely man a similar age to him when his tyre pops on the way to the hospital and he is stranded whilst waiting for it to be fixed.  They have a conversation. He later finds out that the lonely man was never there”.  I wrote my script, I struggled with it a bit as I struggled to make it long enough and stretch out the story.  I managed to finish a first draft.  Then I got feedback which was that I needed to further develop the characters to really fill out the story.  My feedback was that maybe instead of trying to get to his wife giving birth he could be on the way to a work meeting to finalise a big client and he hits someone on side of road then in predicament of whether to help or get to big work meeting.  I was also told to give my script a name as I hadn’t already thought of one.  I was told that often the name of the story can help with the story development itself.  I re-wrote the story and it is now a story about a man on the way to a work meeting to finalise a big client when he hits a lady with his car and takes her to A&E.  Something strange happens though because the characters change over the story and they grow attracted to each other.  I named it “Meet Cute.”.  I decided on this name because it is contradictory of itself as it is not a typically “cute” way to meet someone so we don’t expect it to end the way it does.  I enjoyed writing my second draft more than the first because I found I got into the character’s story arc’s much more which therefore meant that the story was more filled out.  I couldn’t believe how much my story had changed over one draft but it taught me that I need to be able to change more story as much as I feel I need to and also be open to others criticisms and advice.