Script Draft Two

Fade in:

EXT. graveyard - day

Jake is sitting on a park bench, mourning over the death of his best friend.

Jake is looking down at a funeral service programme of his best friend.

JAKE SCOFIELD, a small time crook, sits lonely on a bench.

Jake (Narration)

He was my best friend. I’ve never known anyone like him. But I betrayed him.

Now I’m alone, for far too long I’ve been living in doubt… living in fear.

 

Jake is standing over the bridge looking down.

 

Jake (Narration)

When will it end? What am I supposed to do now? Nothing. I don’t deserve this life… or do I?

 

 

In this second draft we took out the character of Emily Thorne. Although we still plan to utilise her in the rest of the narrative, we agreed that introducing her this early would get rid of the enigmatic atmosphere we wanted to create, as it's a key signifier of the drama genre. We also adapted the script because we had to change the locations of the opening, after not been given permission to film in local graveyards. On top of that, we then decided that filming on a pier would be very difficult, highly impractical and wouldn't work in correlation with our lack of budgeting.

~ Christina Fraser, Ryan Chapman ~