Matt Prentice Tuesday, 11 February 2020
This was the first version of the outline the feedback was positive and this encouraged me to push forwards with this structure. Although I was broadly pleased with the world and Park’s character I was still exploring where the narrative was going . I had been thinking a lot about Se7en (Fincher, 1995), and this influence how I was thinking about the world at the time and this would come out further when I came to writing the treatment.
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It was during the writing process of this treatment that I realised that I was going off down the wrong path, it was for me a useful example of why a treatment can be a really useful step, I have used them on most of the screenplays that I have written. The process of visualising the world whilst writing it and taking the characters on a journey brings them to life for me and fleshes them out, I prefer this way of developing the backstory and life of a character to writing a character profile before writing, I just make notes of the character details and history in my notebook whilst I am doing this to keep them consistent later on. Whilst writing this treatment I establish for myself that Park was already partly an outsider before she could no longer practice medicine. An only child who had moved away from home, she had had to work hard for the grades she needed, the long hours ment that she had missed out on some social experience.
Whilst watching Mr. Robot (Esmail, 2015) that was a scene of him being choked with concrete, watching that sequence it clarified for me that I had gone much darker with the tone than I had originally intended. I wasn’t sure how to revise this in the treatment phase without going back to the outline.
Matt Prentice Tuesday, 17 February 2020
When returning to the outline I knew that I wanted to create a much more inclusive world more accessible to a wider target audience. This much more closely reflected my initial conceptions for the world, although I further developed this to have a stronger comicbook influence. The way that I think about this world is something that could work for games, TV, film or comicbooks. I felt that the some of the themes that I wanted to address would work with a family/adventure tone, similar to Stranger Things references. Although it would be difficult to establish in 10 pages I wanted to begin to build an ensemble cast around Park, to establish where I wanted the world to develop as well as working as a 10 page script.
Matt Prentice Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Once I had established the second version of the outline I was able to create another version of the treatment very quickly. I felt much more confident about where the characters were going and were going to develop and how that reflected the world I wanted to create. From this version of the treatment I was able to go straight into writing the script.
Matt Prentice Tuesday, 21 February 2020
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