Research Dossier

I want to enter my script and short film in to the competition called blue cat. If you win the short script competition you will receive $5,000 and if you win the short film competition you will receive $2,500. There is rules when entering this competition e.g. All entries must be in English, all script entries must be uploaded in PDF and feature screenplays  must be between 65-125. The final deadline is before February 20th 2018 and the winners will be announced June 28th 2018.

The script above shows good development of character. Describing Jesse has how Walt was seeing him and describing Jesse as a zombie and describing him with scars and utterly lifeless this is a good use of outer presence.

The script also shows good use of dialogue using scary lines like "See what i'm talking about, you son of a bitch?" This makes the scene really tents and really brings the scene together.

The first paragraph is use of scene direction so that the view knows what's going on when Jesse walks in with chains on.




I really like this 10 minute short i think it's really interesting how it's them speaking about making a short film to the short film it's self. I also really like the dialogue of the characters i thought it made the conversations real and funny. 



I think the car race was really well done i thought most of the shots looked amazing. I also thought the dialogue was pretty cool how it went from speaking to then of the characters singing.

I sent the survey above to 17-18 year olds from my college. My results for question one and two is that it's 50/50, so i'm going have to try to make my story to stand out to get to the public. Question forth has told me that no one dislikes the main characters in a story to be them same age has you (age 17-18). This means i wont have to change my two main characters ages.

I'm going to base my location on actual church which is called East Somerton Church. The church has a tree growing through the the middle. "It is often said that centuries ago, a witch with a wooden leg was buried alive in St Mary’s and from her leg, a large oak tree grew and destroyed the church." I've been thinking about the story of my script and I know I want to have a church with a tree going through the middle of it and this is the only location I could fine what has this.

I watched the film Housebound for research and I really like at the start of the film how they show that there is spirits in the house without showing the ghost but using audio. I could use this in my short film.








I also watched a another filmed called The Awakening at the start of the film they think it's a boy from the boarding school pretending to be ghost but there it ends up there really being one, I like this idea so of someone pretending to be a ghost when there really is one to. In this film sometimes they show the ghost as a weird figure which looks pretty cool.

I watched The ring two they show the ghost in these film is trying to take over the body of a young old  by coming out of the TV when a certain VHS tape is put in to the TV and the ghost can also control water and animals, I find this all bit cheesy so i won't be using any of these ideas in my ghost story.








Bibliography

www.bluecatscreenplay.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts
https://www.youtube.com/?hl=en-GB&gl=GB
https://www.surveymonkey.com/
https://www.netflix.com/gb/
https://images.google.com/
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/somertoneast/somertoneast.htm