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The Hero’s Journey
Stage 1 The first stage is the hero in their natural environment. This is self explanatory. Think about Frodo from Lord of the Rings, or Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. At the beginning of the story, these characters live mundane lives in their homes. In Collateral, this could be Max…
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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?…
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Character development
KATH (32) Loves working with children. She cares about people and believes there is good in everyone. Kath was brought up in Tottenham and currently lives on an estate in Peckham, she always wanted to be a primary teacher and loved her life with her family before the fire which…
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Reflection week 4
This week I watched two films, one from 1903 and the other from 1968 and looked out how the screenplays for each changed and evolved alongside the final product. I plan to do further research by watching one more film from the late 80’s or early 90s as I find…
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Inspiration can take many shapes
The estate Kath lives on is vaguely based on where my dad lives in London, mixed with the block of flats I live in myself. It was important to me that she lives somewhere compact with many different people from all walks of life, living in close proximity. It needed…
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Script formats and history
Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902 The script documentation leaves a lot more room for creativity in costume and scenery. From watching the film, I can see why the earlier writers in Auteur theory were all of the opinion that the director was the author. This scene document is much…
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Reflection – Week 3
Studying the process of keeping and discarding ideas this week was paramount to my change of premise. At the start of the week I was still trying to decide whether to swap but after reading Mukherjee talk about the “Tingle of engagement entertainment and the promise of something profound” I…
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The Treatment.
Working Title: Teachers Genre: Drama Logline: A teacher finds an unconscious child on route to her first day back at work after the lockdown. She struggles to keep the child alive as her neighbours slowly congregate offering their opinions on the matter. Story Synopsis: Teachers (working title) ACT ONE…
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The Treatment
We received a handy guide for how to seperate our treatment into three different acts and develop it from the outline. A Treatment should: Should be two pages in length. Needs to communicate specific important moments that convey character development and narravtive. Making turning points and climaxes clear to the…
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The Ideal Idea
Having changed my idea, this week’s reading was very poignant for me. ‘Ideas’ by Mukherjee was full of great pointers for whether my new idea would work or not. It made me panic in some places due to it being a new idea and not as fleshed out as my…
Evalution Media Meets Eva Wilshere
After graduating my Masters in Screenwriting with Distinction, I threw my heart and soul into making The Year Dot into a short film with a very low budget. With whimsical naivety I decided I wanted to give as many people work and pay everyone fairly while also keeping the production set environmentally sound and hiring a diverse cast & crew, including a fair few NDs. And if you hadn’t already worked out I am AuDHD and was in the midst of a few new diagnoses and waitlists!
As soon as Dot was finished and we had our cast & crew screening, the film started its Festival run and I through myself into the next thing. Namely my business Evalution Media, which is going pretty well considering it’s only regular employee is my wonderful PA Lily. I applied for Access to Work during my over-extended production and spent the first 6 months of having it, wishing I’d applied for it before attempting to make a film! Lily helps me keep the social media alive, because I’m not the biggest fan of taking photos of myself and find it tricky to write in short snappy phrases! Also planning. I can’t just log on for an hour once a day and get everything done, it has to be when my brain is in the zone and I need the correct atmosphere and equipment around me. why do you think I’ve only just started writing this again!
Anyway, I hope that you enjoy any content I manage to add here and if I’m slacking, it doesn’t hurt to remind me to add posts in the comments ; )
Journey Through My Mind 
