Saturday 16 March 2013

CHARACTER QUESTIONAIRE


Nickname(s): Hunt, H
Appearance:
Male
28
Caucasian
85kgs,
Messy dark blonde hair
Green eyes.  
Clothing style: Whatever he can find.
Physical Abilities: Fast runner
Physical Limitation: Not very strong

Brief Life Story:
He was an Orphan and never ended up finding his parents because they died and left no records. He has never been truly loved or wanted by another person. Hunter has grown to accept this because he doesn’t know how it feels and he doesn’t know what to miss. All through life he has kept to himself, he doesn’t strive to do anything or what he is capable of, mainly because he has no one to motivate him or have an example to go off. But his world is turned around when a girl named Elisa takes interest in his weird mannerisms and digs deeper and shows him how to love. Because he has never felt this kind of connection with someone as soon as he felt threatened he acted foolishly. He felt like he had competition with another man and therefore physically hurting him which pushed Elisa away and long story short, after phone calls, texts, home visits and basically stalking her, Elisa got a restraining order against Hunter. Hunter still watches from afar, waiting for a moment to apologies and explain himself.

Psychology
Outer Goal - Get Elisa back
Inner Goal – To let go of his insecurities for the one he loves.

Super Objective:
Life, career or personal goals outside of story:
Before Elisa, nothing, just making sure he had a roof over his head and food to eat. After Elisa: To be loved and to love in return

Defining Characteristic: Comminted

Introvert or extrovert: Introvert
More thinking or feeling? Thinking

Fears/phobias:  He doesn’t care about anything

Biggest contradiction the character lives out: Thinks he doesn’t need love when that ends up controlling his life

Tends to be self centred? Selfish? Selfless? Selfish at first and selfless at the end.

Favourite and hated foods/drinks: He likes Mexican, not a big fan of sushi. Loves Juice, hates Coke.

Education: Finished High school

Most enjoyed activities: Running/Jogging (clears his head)

Wildest fantasy: Nothing

Sense (or lack) of humour: Only jokes Elisa tells him

Who is your character’s hero? Nobody

Philosophy and Morality
Attitude towards;
Self – He doesn’t really like himself
Others – He doesn’t pay enough attention to care
Friendship –  Prefers not to have any
Sex – He enjoys his alone time…
Love –  secretly wants it
Family – Misses them even though not knowing them
Marriage – isn’t sure
Country – it’s stupid
The World – Doesn’t want to think about it
Religion –  Hates it

Food for Thought: How would your character react to:

·  Inheriting $1 million:
He would be ecstatic but would then think it was wrong because it’s too good to be true

· The death of a loved one:
Probably end up killing himself. He only has that one person in his life

·  A natural disaster: hurricane/earthquake, etc.:
Just sit there as if nothing was happening

· Being fired:
Accepts it and move on

· Meeting an old friend or enemy not seen for years:
He wouldn’t, he would avoid them, unless of course it was Elisa

·Being raped/mugged/violated in some way:
Fight back and run away

·An unexpected kindness or compliment:
Wouldn’t have a chance to receive one as he shy’s away from any human contact
· A serious illness such as AIDS or cancer:
Somewhat glad he has a way out
· A flat tire on the expressway:
wouldn’t be surprised because everything is wrong in his life
·         Five minutes on local or national TV:
He would hate it

If your character were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would they most regret not having told someone? Why haven't they told them yet?
That it was all a misunderstanding, I never meant to hurt her or physically hurt your male friend. I have never had anyone care about me the way you did and I was afraid to lose it. I felt threatened by him and I should have trusted you. You were the only real thing in my life. You made me want to live.


Monday 11 March 2013

Sentence Outline


3 Sentence Outline

1. After Hunter is saved by person, his begins to see timers counting down above peoples people heads.

2. Hunter tries to save his ex girlfriend Elisa before her time runs out, but police arrest him due to the restraining order against him.

3.With the help of Elisa's father, Elisa is saved.


I just googled 'music video timer above head' and this came up,
This isn't the one I saw when I was younger but it's the same concept

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQiEs32SqQ

and yes it's Nickelback (I do secretly like them, please don't judge (Lachlunn I feel like you'll judge me haha))

Tick-tock


So this is my idea (with a bit of inspiration,) a middle aged man is in his cheap, sticky, very untidy apartment going through his mail to find a notice from the government stating 'Restraining Order' these are the terms and conditions. He then glances over to a frame where it has a picture of him and a woman. He throws the frames out of anger.

It might cut to him walking down a really busy street, just some place where he can almost die but a stranger saves his life, so possibly a car or motorbike almost hitting him as he crosses the road, or a one of those massive garage bins almost squishing him against a wall….(still need to figure it out, but you get the point)

Once the person saves him, the man (lets call him Hunter, aka my nephews name), Hunter sys thank you and that person replies, “Don’t thank me just yet.” Hunter is confused but doesn’t care, as he is extremely thankful.

As few minutes pass it cuts to him in a shopping centre, where he realizes people have signs above their heads. He shows signs of confusion and starts to look at everyone around him, as he is wondering what the hell those signs are, he spots the woman in the frame shown in the beginning. This woman, lets call her Elisa (inspired by my big sisters name,) is his ex gf. I was thinking of maybe having a flashback? I’m not sure what other way to show the audience who she is to him and try and tie the restraining order notice into the story. Anyways he starts hiding and notices the sign above her head. He says to himself, ‘a timer?’

He follows her from a safe distance, but while following her, he starts to notice that children have more time and the older the person the less time the sign has. He turns around as he hears a woman scream as man jumps off one of the top levels and as he is falling, Hunter watches the timer run out and hit zero. As he puts it all together he loses Elisa, and frantically trys to find her.

I think maybe another short flash back on their past relationship? Then it will cut to Hunter spotting Elisa and a close up of her timer is shown which says 01:15:45:03:00: 1 day, 15hrs, 45mins and 3 sec.

From then on he trys to tell follow her to make sure she doesn’t die because he is madly in love with her, but of course she has a restraining order against him - police get involved -Hunter gets arrested – doesn’t know how to get out – contacts Elisa father – trys to convince him – asks the father to go with him – they can’t find Elisa – ends up being only 20mins left to live ….not so sure how to end it though? Like how does she nearly die? Maybe after he saves her, he says the same ‘Don’t thank me yet!” and is shocked to finally have understood what the person who saved him meant, then maybe see them walking away and all their timers are 3mins away from 00!
Anywho I guess I should thank baby Hunter for the inspiration!

It's a!!!.....lready taking over my life....


It probably seems like i've been extremely slack but i've been working and at the hospital since friday due to my big sister being in labour with her first child! long story short, 3 days later my first nephew was born this morning at 3am. Ps probably being biased but he is amazing!

ANYWAYS! While I was at the hospital waiting to see my new nephew I was thinking of an idea for my story. I started thinking about the patients and I was just happy to be there to welcome life into the world rather than watch a life end. I then started thinking about those people that are told they only have 6months to live or even worse, a week. So I said to myself what if were all born with a time limit that was shown above ones head.

I remember seeing a music video when I was maybe 10, were you see a timer counting down above peoples head and someone noticed and had no idea what it meant until he saw one hit 00:00:00:00 and they got hit by car. So lets see where that takes me…..(I’ll try find that video)

Sunday 3 March 2013

project x and the hang over

For those of you who haven't seen either The Hangover or Project X, (but I really hope you have because that's just sad if you haven't) here are some links to the trailers

Hangover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhFVZsk3XEs

Project X
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rl1TJG17Wk

Testies 1, 2



Finally got my blog set up and now to start blogging......
No ideas as of yet...only rain...so much rain. Well today is okay.
Actually scratch that, I may have an idea,
Idea 1 (usually the worst one, but hey you have to start somewhere)

So kind of like the whole 'hangover' and 'project x'  concept of preparing for a great time/night but ends up being so epic and memorable its just totally unbelievable, but my idea is that everything just turns into a disaster and it's actually the worst day of a girls life (well so far). i'm kind of taking this from my experience from saturday just gone... So i'm thinking it'll be based on one of Australia's biggest music festivals and this group of people organise months prior and just everything goes wrong but all from this one girls perspective.

Anyways that's all i've got for now.