Script writing day 1

 With all the research done and the core ideas our team had gathered, I had elected myself to be the main script writer with my fellow team member Niranjana Dileep assisting me throughout the process. And we also decided that all members (me, Abass Alichi, Niranjana Dileep, and Darren) would be acting.

So I started writing the first scene, which I had a rough idea of what it would deal with. I wanted to establish a few things to the audience so they can be engaged. Firstly, I wanted to display what the location of the scene is as it plays an important point to the story. The roof of a building is the location, which the character is contemplation to jump off of. It plays an important part as it is a detonation and connotation associated with suicide.  

I also wanted to portray what the premise of the short film is so the audience understands what are the stakes in the film, which is the main character contemplating on jumping off the roof and ending his life due to the bad choices he has made in his life.

Another thing I wanted to signify was the relationship between the two characters. That they are cold and behaving distant. Their dialogue to each other should be able to make that cold feeling across to the audience.

Furthermore, I wanted to establish that the main character is indecisive about the difficult choice that is presented in this scene. This will also allow the scene to have a smooth transition to the next scenes.

There are more things I want to establish in the scene such as the costumes the characters wear. But I will cover that later in the blog when we do story boarding and in the production phase of this assignment.

In this scene, the atmosphere I wanted to emphasize on is darkness. The main character Musa, is an almost stoic, quiet reserved figure. This is set up for later as through out the short film his true emotions are slowly and slowly revealed.  The other character, Darren also displays this type of nature as Musa, however he does speak much more and acts in somewhat snarky with his dialogue.