Script Proposal

(Potential ending, mum divining home , sad, smiles or wipes tear and swerve off the bridge or something)

Title of the script?

Broken (working progress)

Logline?

A young boy faces life’s perils when his abusive father becomes too much and his mother is too powerless to help, so he casts away his life to care for himself until a girl changes it forever.

Purpose = short, feature, series, etc

Identification of genre?

Drama

Identification of style and key themes?

Style- dark, gloomy,

Themes- broken hearted, betrayed, torn, hurt, momentarily happy, struggle

Narrative overview- Boy runs away from home and lives in the woods as step dad is abusive and mother lets it happen. Asks friends to stay but none of them want to, learns what his friends are like, which he has none. Sees a girl walk home every day from school and ends up talking to her one day , he ran away in his school uniform and his rucksack so she thinks he’s coming back from school and questions why she’s never seen him around before, in which he lies, and talks to her every day until they finally kiss as they like each other after like 2 weeks ( no police or search party’s as mums to afraid of the step-dad to do anything and she’s  a bit of an addict so she’s f***ked up) then he tells her he’s homeless and he confronts his step-dad in which he gets beaten to within an inch of his life and is taken to hospital, the step-dad is taken away to jail but the boy dies in the hospital with his injuries with the girl and mother present.

USP?

Child abuse isn’t shown as much as spouses as such as well as emotional abuse, he also has a love interest which you don’t see that often abuse story’s

Trends/gaps in the market?

People still find abuse and uncomfortable subject so avoid it as such there’s not as many of these kind of stories out on the market. Some

Winter’s Bone, The Stepfather, Haunting of Hill House (Drop Dead Fred)

Audience

Primary= British, middleclass 18-60, potentially more women later in life who can deal with the harsh reality of certain things.

Demographic =  Middle class

Psychographic =  explorers or resigned, maybe older people or people who want to find out more information on the matter

Secondary= Maybe for people who are trying to find out about experiences like that and want to enlighten themselves on these problems

Dem = maybe C1?

Psych= Strugglers, Reformers, potentially some of the darker genres in it.

Product intention?

Sending message like some of the happiest people are the saddest the exterior doesn’t always how what’s going on and some people need help, domestic abuse is a problem.

character briefs?

Name?Kai

Age? 17

Dramatic motivation? Hes sad and depressed and being treated badly and even though he still gives off a good exterior he shouldn’t have to deal with it

Role in the narrative? He struggles at home with his family so he leaves to try and find somewhere[i] to belong

Potential actor? Brandon Flynn, in 13 reasons why he gave off a laddish banter vibe and was popular but also could show of true raw emotion which I really like and I think could work well in this production.

Name? Bella

Age? 16

Dramatic motivation? She bored of life and is in love with kai and goes through a stage in which she just needs to break free

Role in the narrative?  Sweet and innocent in nature but is the generic nice posh-ish girl who wants to break her strict boundaries and daily routines

Potential actor? Taissa Farmiga , in previous things such as AHS she is a good child within reasons and gets mixed up in the antics of a troublephoebe to boy so she could be good for this role

Name? Rose(beautiful but thorny can’t get too close , physically and mentally)   

Age?38

Dramatic motivation? Her life is a struggle and with many suicide attempts she just lives a slow empty life

Role in the narrative?  Broken by the years of abuse she has basically became a husk of the women she formally was and she “takes care” of her son minimally and waits hand and foot on her husband

Potential actor? Marisol Nichols I think would be good for this role as seen in Riverdale she is subjected to abuse due to her husband and although she’s strong in this tv show I would want her to appear weaker in this for dramatic effect.

Name? Steve

Age? 43

Dramatic motivation? Was in an orphanage when he was younger and his bunk mate sexually abused him causing himself to always have to reinforce his masculinity but being the tough hard man

Role in the narrative?  The ‘evil’ within the film and his role is to cause distress and pain for the characters and is the main reason the peace is disturbed

Potential actor? Gerard butler, stern looking an gives of an intimidating persona

 

 

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