Category: Projects & Ideas
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Evalution Media’s 2024 Highlights…
2024 Highlights I am so grateful for all of the wonderful collaborations I have been a part of this year. Paid writing commissions started coming in from January, so I finally feel like a professional writer. I appreciate my support network of creative and caring friends and family, they have…
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Positioning Statement
WORKING TITLE: The PNDs FORMAT: 45min Television Drama. PREMISE: In a small city in England, a virus has given anyone with Neuro-divergence heightened anxiety and strange superpowers, each with their own irony attached. A group who meets at the Young Person’s Centre are aided by their counsellor Dr Clarke. He…
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Major Projects
This is it, the culmination of all the work done so far, everything we’ve learnt shall influence us as we create our final project. I have decided to use the story I imagined a few years ago. The concept involved people with mental health issues getting ironic powers after a…
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The Year Dot
The Year Dot Dorothy (92) has Lung Cancer, knowing she may only have a year at most, she begins to plan an end of life party. When England goes into lockdown she has to find a way to gather her family one last time. ACT 1: Doctors surgery GP’s room.…
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Writer’s statement – first draft.
I was inspired during an online first aid quiz I was taking for work and I started getting distracted, wondering what I would do if there was a need to give CPR at the moment (I counted as vulnerable and was in isolation for 12 weeks). So I started to…
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Laying It Out
Title – Teachers (I’m still not keen but can’t think of a better choice!) 2. Genre – Originally a political satire with elements of In The Loop, this Drama still contains comedic moments reminiscent of British sketch shows like Monty Python. 3. Character- KATH (32) Loves working with children. She…
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First attempt: Teachers
The first attempt is in a PDF format if anyone wants to check it out. I am currently in the process of deciding which scriptwriting software to use full time so at present I’m using free software.
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Working The Story From Every Angle.
SHORT FILM: My work uses the short film format to its advantage due to the neighbours comments are almost like little facebook comments or tweets. Visually there is a lot happening that can tell us about the set up and the protagonist’s life before the first spoken word at the end…
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Characterization and Dialogue
To write good dialogue you must step inside of your characters and have an understanding of their motivations and background. Their country, region, city, education and class all affect their speech pattern and their predisposition will affect speech rhythms. Everyone speaks slightly differently, that’s why impressionists are able to impersonate…
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Character checklist
Who is the protagonist? Kath Who or what is the antagonist? Neighbours or is it Evie? What are the protagonist’s main problems and obstacles? Keeping Evie alive whilst being distracted by her past, her present and Evie’s future (and on an internal level- her own future) What do they want?…