Film 2: Picking a Screenplay

We have just formed groups to make our second film. My group consists of Myles, Gus, Josh and Mark. After reading over the entire morning and afternoon groups screenplays, we narrowed down our script selection to three.
They are:


The Industry by Liz Scott
This is a mockumentary set on a film set, where we never see the director but he is constantly spoke about through interviews with the cast and crew. I think this is a funny script and could make a great film if shot well. The downside to it, is that it would need a lot of actors and a good set, which would be hard to make with no budget. The humour I would want to convey with this film would be very dry and therefore quite specific, which is a gamble if not everyone found it funny.

A Justified Presumption by Lyndon McGukian
This is about an old man who helps a young boy from geting bullied in his local park. This causes them to form a friendship and the young boy helps the old man out with various things as his way of saying thanks. Through out the script there are ruours on the street that the old man is rather strange, suggesting he could be a paedophile without explicitly saying it. I think the story has a really interesting theme, which has a lot of potential to be explored in several ways.

Treatment by Luke Phillips
This is about a man who suffers from schizophrenia. He wakes up and forgets to take his medication which gets him into all sorts of trouble. The ending suggests that his girlfriend is actually a form of treatment because she manages to calm him down without him having to take his medication.

We liked all three for completlely different reasons. However, as a group we all chose Treatment by Luke in the end, because we felt we could make the story more our own and we could also do some really cool stuff with the cinematogrpahy and in the edit. I like the idea of filming dual perspectives, so that the viewer sees both how the schizophrenic views the world and then how everybody around him sees the same situation. We could do this in several ways, through split screen or by filming the same scenario in completely different styles.