My idea - The Meeting

After much thought and techniques to try and gather ideas I have now got a firm idea of a story to be put into screenwriting and moving image.

Here is some notes I made, a map exploring my idea and character profiles.

mind map

character profiles

I started out with the character profiles thinking of two people and then continuing from there.
Neal:

• Male
• 22 years old
• Smart/casual dressed 
• working in an office job, doing well but lonely.
• Has a everyday routine that he wants to stick to. 
• Easy to talk to, friendly gentleman but not that confident in helping out other people.

Linda:

• Female
• 20years old
• Casual dressed
• She is a full time student with part time employment. She is over working, failing and underachieving
• very busy and stressed
• Nervous around others, not that sociable. Also lonely.  

 Location:

• River Medway (main location)
• House/flat 

My idea:  Romantic Drama with a working title 'Weak'

The story is about Neal, a young man in an office job doing well at his job. He wants to live his life in the same routine being quite simple. One day his routine has broken. Neal is running late for work, he has missed the bus so he decides to walk. Walking past the river he notices a woman acting really strange, realising she is attempting to jump off the bridge. Neal tries to take control of the situation and after much determination she is calm and able to talk. Already late for work Neal offers to comfort the woman and stay with her. They both chat and have a coffee. Both Linda and Neal realise they are lonely and Neal asks the awkward question of going out together. But with Linda's busy schedule and already stressed she declines. They never see each other again. 

I feel quite strong in my idea and believe it will work brilliantly, I keep changing parts of the story but this is the main idea. It has a boy meets girl theme to it.  I have covered the important parts ensuring the story has goal, change and conflict.

• Goal- Neal to find love, get to work, live with normal routine and grow confidence.
• Change- Neal changes his routine and battles his nerves in helping Linda. 
• Conflict- Linda too busy for relationship. Neal has work too.