Characters

DAN 

Dan is a golf teacher with his membership jumper and shirt combo with loose black golfing trousers, right down to his new golfing shoes. With money in his eyes, he tries his best to help his students but as his job loses importance he loses interest too.

JAMES

Dressed in his favourite polo shirt and golfing trousers, James brings along his golfing clubs to his local golfing centre. He’s tall and lanky, with hair covering his face. He walks with his back hunched slightly and his head to the ground.

ELIZABETH GREEN (MOTHER)

Elizabeth Green, is dressed in a pastel jumper and trousers, with her favourite pearl necklace and headband. She has a maternal look about her and her groomed hair has become messy and grubby.

JOHN GREEN (FATHER)

With a stern look on his face and gritted teeth, John Green has worked hard for his possessions. He wears his designer clothes proudly and checks to straighten up his tie. His shoes are off and his colorful socks are revealed. Only a few strands of messy hair have escaped from his smooth exterior. Normally he oozes allure, but now, slumped against the cold basement wall, he looks fragile and pale.

Locations

FIRST LOCATION - GOLF CLUB

SECOND LOCATION - MY HOUSE (Living Room + Kitchen + Basement)

First Script Draft

Reasonable Doubt Spoiler Review

An investigative news reporter looking for a story that will take his career to the next level suspects that the District Attorney, who is hotly tipped to be the next State Governor, has been deliberately planting evidence to secure convictions in high profile murder cases. To prove his suspicions, he deliberately fabricates circumstantial evidence against himself in an unsolved murder, but his plan goes horribly wrong. Reasonable Doubt (also known as The Good Samaritan) is a 2014 Canadian crime thriller film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Peter A. Dowling. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Erin Karpluk, Gloria Reuben and Ryan Robbins. ‘Beyond a Reasonable Doubt’ has a zero rating at Rotten Tomatoes from 22 reviews. I have no doubt it is not the only film to ever receive a zero rating, but it is the first one that I have come across. Writer and director Peter Hyams has had a long career, which has produced a mixed bag of results, from interesting earlier outings like ‘Capricorn One’ and ‘Outland’ to the slightly more recent horror films ‘Relic’ and ‘End of Days’, with a couple of Jean-Claude Van Damme films in between. His past record suggests that he is a better director than this lame and hackneyed debacle would indicate.

Out of the Furnace Spoiler Review

The story of Out of The Furnace focuses on the steel mill town raised Baze brothers Russell (played by Christian Bale) and Rodney (played by Casey Affleck). Russell is a man who does as his family has done for generation, work at the steel mill then go to your loved one, of which for Russell is Lena (played by Zoe Saldana). Rodney, on the other hand, works for the military seemingly to escape the family pattern of working in the mill, but ends up only trading boredom and stability for the gruesomeness of fighting in the Iraq war. These two lead us on a journey in which we watch them both fall, and while Russell is given the chance to stand back up after a drinking and driving conviction which puts him away, and causes him to lose Lena to local officer Wesley (played by Forest Whitaker), Rodney finds himself relying on assistance to stand on his own. You see, while Russell was away, Rodney had to deal with their dad dying as well as mounting debt which seemingly the military wasn’t helping much with. So this leads to him turning to local shark John Petty (played by Willem Dafoe) who he throws fights for. However, once Russell is out, and back at the mill, Rodney eventually figures that he minas well give into fate, but not before one fight to wipe his debt. Enter Harlan DeGroat (played by Woody Harrelson) a Jersey drug dealer, with a penchant for violence. He changes everything for the story by taking out a few characters and getting on Russell’s bad side, and despite Wesley saying he got things handled, Russell decides to play vigilante leading him to face off with Harlan.

Sock Puppet Practising

For our last film lesson we made sock puppets to practice our scripts. This helps to develop our scripts as we can practice a normal conversation between characters. This also helps for the scene to be natural and fluent.

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