Onto the next one...

Back to academic work. I am going to use this blog post to brainstorm possible ideas for the second script I'm going to write for "Hidden". This time I have a beautiful little thing called hindsight. Last time I came around to writing "Accumulator" there was a fundamental flaw with it, the gambling addiction wasn't really hidden as such.

Right. I seem to write alot of male orientated scripts, I haven't once had a female character as the protagonist so lets change that now. Okay, I need an aspect of her personality that is hidden to her peers. The obvious thing to go for would be bulimia,anorexia. These are terrible issues but I don't think I could handle them tactfully enough.

I'm going to call her Marissa, second year, I think the hidden aspect should possibly be that she has lost a relative recently and is desperate to tell somebody but can't bring herself to do it. Therefore this manifests into her seeing the relative in question in lectures and seminars. The relative is a friendly ghost though (not called Caspar) I think the relative, I'm thinking her Dad, wants her to let him go but for that to happen she needs to be able to confide in someone so she can move on.

I'm not sure who she should tell, possibly a male buck, I think that would make more sense than a best friend as they would be insulted that she hadn't told them sooner. So yeah, maybe it's like a second date, they've fallen for each other but before things start getting "hot and heavy" she tells him about her father. Although that might be a bit creepy if the Dad is there just watching them make out, hmm.

Okay Marissa returns for year two of uni, it doesn't matter what course she does (noone cares anyway), her best friends notice a change in her. Marissa keeps seeing her Fathers ghost, he tells her to speak to someone, every time she has company he is there begging her to let him go. In the first lecture she meets a lad who is pretty cool, this results in them taking things to Dylans bar where she tells him whats happened etc. I smell a crossover! How about if Gaz and the gym guy from the first script are in there drinking as the results come in? Yeah I'll do that.

This has helped quite alot to be fair. I have no idea what picture I can shamelessly include to try and induce a giggle, my girlfriend is in Paris at the moment so maybe a French guy eating frogs legs? Nah, don't want to ruin this academic post do I?




Cheers.

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