Hollie Marshall Script
Instructions and guidelines - phase one

o Characters come alive
o Conflict
o Satifactory conclusion and/or resolution
o Avoid stereotypes
o Stories can leave you wondering
o Scenes Where does the story take place? (location/time)
o Dialogue
o Act 1- Beginnig: exposition/inciting event
o Act 2- Middle: conflict/complication
o Act 3- End: resolution
o Who is the protagonist? (Main character who drives the story)
o What do they want? What gets in the way? What do they do?
o (goals + conflict = actions)
o Title
o Scene headings
o Dialogue
o Character cues
o Personal direction

Original idea

i have began writing about a woman/girl who is dreaming and this dream is going to be all flashbacks of her past and basically her past is her trying to live up to her mothers expectations/standards and for her to get to this stage she has gone thru emotional and mental abuse from her mother who thinks little of her daughter, but in the end the resolution is she is the only one who can give herself the acceptance she needs. i want it to be surreal throughout the dreams with black and white and kind of that creepy eerie sense of childhood like the nursery rhymes kinda thing.

I sent this email to jules for feedback on his thoughts for my script, he emailed me back saying he liked it but thinks it would be much better if I didn't have the flashbacks. So the challenge is how can I achieve the feelings that I described and the backstory without the flashbacks. Im going to watch a video on a mother daughter relationship to get some good ideas on how to work with subtext the underlining meaning and showing her emotions and feelings without her having the direct flashbacks this therefore would give it a bit more of a twist i still want to keep to the surreal theme but i want to make it more like a emotional piece.