| Out Of Blue Billy Haydn thinks he is suffering from depression, so seeks help from a counsellor who brings out of him the story of Angelina, the girl he claims he loves and how she dug him out of depression. Through the flashback story we see how they meet and strike up a magic bond over a preiod of days. The plot centres on Billy's story but also focusses on a sub-plot where his best friend Tony falls in love (or lust) with French girl Camille who he claims is an angel. When Camille saves Billy from drawning, it dawns on him that perhaps his story has already been written and that love conquers depression if you let it. This is a light-hearted drama, dominated by characters just simply talking and feeling emotions while the background theme of heaven and fate carries them along. I know it sounds corny but the style I wrote it in makes it often bleak and down-to-Earth rather than sentimental. |
| A Beautiful Friend The world of a model is never simple. Young Faye Lavender tells of her bizarre childhood where her focus stays on the times that were bad for her. As an adult, Faye is a quirky, unstable model until she attempts to kill herself, waking the next morning and her life transforms. Especially when she meets Bonnie, a nine year-old girl who claims to be her guardian angel. Faye is suspicious at first but soon realises that her new found world is illuminating. That Bonie is infact that imaginary friend from childhood. The main theme of this is the belief that we can get where we want to be. Faye's charactr is very much alive but she seeks something else. This is a far more surreal and contrasting look at human emotions that Out Of Blue. |
| Jennifer Rose And The Coffee Shop Culture A story very much based on my childhood and one which doesn't rely on angels but rather the imagination of its lead character. Here, Wit Green tells us about how he grew up with a beautiful girl called Jennifer Miller, a few years older than him and how that contrasted with the disfunction of his family life. The plot follows seventeen year-old Wit as he ambles through life, drinking coffee, playing pool, looking for a steady career and basing his life on Jennifer, whom has spent time in the States and is now twenty-two. Their relationship has always been close but unromantic but life guarantees that as we get older out lives change. The title is based on the two elements of his life, where the coffee shop culture is a physical icon and location of the film, Jennifer Rose is both an abstract and most important desire in Wit's life. Personally speaking this is my favourite feature length film I have written. It's a personal account of young life in England with subtle characters and what I hope is meanigful and humourous dialogue telling a familiar story. |
| Ellouise Ellouise is dying, and as she lays in her bed she talks to granddaughter Catherine about her life as a young playwright. A playwright who before Catherine's father was born ventured into the city to find a reclusive playwright who held great significance to Ellouise's young life. The central story is the relationship between young Ellouise and the old playwright Ridley Brookes. Old Ellouise at the end dies in her bed and Catherine is left with an optimistic view on her life. I like to write material that is moving on an emotional level. Ellouise is I admit a little sentimental in places. This is a film again about the importance of family and how it develops from when we are children right through to old age.. |
| Candyland The premise goes something like this. Nicole Penrite is seventeen and living a wasted life with invisible parents in rural England. Nicole recalls to us the importance of the peacock she once had and how its death wedged a brick between the relationship she has with her neurotic parents. Meanwhile, in the city, Bud Marion's perfect life as a charming teacher with beautiful wife Jacey is ripped apart when she is killed at work. Bud walks out of his job, drives into the country and ends up crashing into a huge tree. Later, icole discovers him and invites him into her imaginary world where things look and feel different. Her inability to stay in childhood brings new hope to the destroyed Bud. To the surprise of her parents, Nicole and Bud find a love they never expected. Bud leaves at the end of the day and goes back to teaching where he realises he will get through his trauma. The plot for this film is difficult to grasp. It's a companion piece. It says a lot about how we can move on and the different ways in which we can percieve the world. If I can write true to form and get this how I want it, Candyland will be my most accomplished screenplay yet. We shall have to see... |
| The Feature Length Scripts (in brief) |
| Encore This is something of a gritty success story told through the eyes of Lucie, a screenwriting fighting with depression and the longing for recognition. Told in biopic fashion, the narrator makes our protagonist sound both important and full of pain. The platform is an interview with a film publication editor, to where we follow Lucie from an asthmatic child through her college years as an emotional writer to her adult world where she attempts to write a screenplay about the Golden Age of Hollywood. 'Encore' is a film that shows the strugles and painful thought process of a film writer, not knowing what it truly feels like to be successful within herself. The story deals with relationships, depression, a nobody becoming a somebody and the ambition to break into film. Very much a personal journey of writers block and personal goals. |
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