Just had an excellent conversation with a man who runs projects for the Southbank centre and it appears that the graffiti artists collaborate every year with the Hayward gallery and exhibit their art.
They also have a number system so all artists get a turn at the large areas where skate park is. This all seems really positive and this man seems genuinely on the side of these young people.
He also told me that in 2020 the park might be moved but MOVED not got rid of and that the young people will have lots of meetings with the Southbank centre to decide on the best place for it to go. They want a full weather canopy so skating can happen on rainy days and this is something that may get the go ahead.
In his words 'the skate park has been here for 30 years, it is embedded in the culture of the Southbank and it will always stay.'
Excellent! Fabulous! Brilliant!
Monday 29 November 2010
The guardian angel
The guardian angel character doesn't work at all because he does all the work for Frank, therefore we don't see a strong enough character arc of the main character.
New idea:
Frank goes on news program but is set up by Clarissa and Sinclair to be made to look stupid.
He is really cross at this and decides to do his own investigations into the whole area of the Southbank.
He uncovers corruption.
He makes Clarissa help him.
He shows up Sinclair for what he really is.
He gets to save skate park. Yippee!
By leaving out guardian angel and making Frank more pro-active I think I'm giving him a better voice. God.....I hope so. Two weeks to go before this has too be handed in.......help........!
New idea:
Frank goes on news program but is set up by Clarissa and Sinclair to be made to look stupid.
He is really cross at this and decides to do his own investigations into the whole area of the Southbank.
He uncovers corruption.
He makes Clarissa help him.
He shows up Sinclair for what he really is.
He gets to save skate park. Yippee!
By leaving out guardian angel and making Frank more pro-active I think I'm giving him a better voice. God.....I hope so. Two weeks to go before this has too be handed in.......help........!
Monday 8 November 2010
Formatting the story
I have had an idea for where the script is going from this research for some time but I've changed the original idea more times than I've had hot meals in the last four weeks. I didn't intend to do this at all, it was just very much needed. I have really struggled with the actual formatting of the script.
The original idea was 'Frank' (its always been Frank) a young skater always at the Southbank has a gang issue with boys from Surrey coming in and using the park. The London boys verses the Surrey boys leads to tension. Meanwhile Frank has a disasterous home life with his stepfather regularly attacking his mother. Eventually after a severe beating Frank takes the law into his own hands and borrows a knife off a Surrey boy. He stabs his stepfahter and has to flee London.
The problem with this idea is that it's all very stereotypical of how we view young people and that is exactly what I set out to NOT do.
Second idea, much more a documentary about the lives of the skaters but problem being I then had no story!!! One extreme to another!
At this point I realised I needed to understand how to format the script better. Research required I thought and turned to Christopher Voglers 'The writers journey' and the best thing I learnt was how to apply the hero's journey more concisely. This helped me refocus and try again.
Now the story is very different and has the most potential although I still need to make it original and less cliched. Frank is a keen skater, the skate park is threatened by outside influences, he fights to save it but gets double crossed. A guardian angel type character appears, helps him and makes him have some self belief. The story is positive and hopefully the young people are not now as stereotyped as they were. I think by making it a happier story than the first one it helps make the characters more positive and there seems more hope. There's enough doom and gloom without making up more!!!
I've still got along way to go with this script but hopefully sooner rather than later it will improve and be original!
The original idea was 'Frank' (its always been Frank) a young skater always at the Southbank has a gang issue with boys from Surrey coming in and using the park. The London boys verses the Surrey boys leads to tension. Meanwhile Frank has a disasterous home life with his stepfather regularly attacking his mother. Eventually after a severe beating Frank takes the law into his own hands and borrows a knife off a Surrey boy. He stabs his stepfahter and has to flee London.
The problem with this idea is that it's all very stereotypical of how we view young people and that is exactly what I set out to NOT do.
Second idea, much more a documentary about the lives of the skaters but problem being I then had no story!!! One extreme to another!
At this point I realised I needed to understand how to format the script better. Research required I thought and turned to Christopher Voglers 'The writers journey' and the best thing I learnt was how to apply the hero's journey more concisely. This helped me refocus and try again.
Now the story is very different and has the most potential although I still need to make it original and less cliched. Frank is a keen skater, the skate park is threatened by outside influences, he fights to save it but gets double crossed. A guardian angel type character appears, helps him and makes him have some self belief. The story is positive and hopefully the young people are not now as stereotyped as they were. I think by making it a happier story than the first one it helps make the characters more positive and there seems more hope. There's enough doom and gloom without making up more!!!
I've still got along way to go with this script but hopefully sooner rather than later it will improve and be original!
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