Fiction story idea

Story outline

A sequel to “lamb to the slaughter”, framed around, marriage, guilt, and insanity, using 1981’s Royal Wedding as a slight framing and to strengthen the theme of marriage and the breakdown of marriage.
Mary Maloney’s daughter is the main character, Mary Maloney is still living in the house from the original story, but living with the guilt has crippled her, and as an elderly lady, she has the beginnings of insanity, sometimes she seems fine, other times she is completely lost in her own world, where she still believes Patrick Maloney is alive. Her daughter, Elizabeth becomes very worried about her mother, and being pregnant herself, she cannot cope with looking after her mother so she thinks about putting her into a home. After going to her mother’s house and starting to clear things out, Elizabeth finds some disturbing things, including journals that speak to Patrick and about Patrick as if her were alive, the grocery receipt that formed her ‘alibi’ in the original story, and jumbled and rambled notes that hint at the murder of her husband. So over the course of the story Elizabeth seeks to find out what really happened to her father who she had always thought had been murdered but they never found the killer, she begins to remember things from her childhood that gives her mother away. Throughout the story we also see Elizabeth’s marriage begin to hit the rocks as she descends into depths of revelation and becomes obsessed with finding out the truth. She spends her times in libraries, ellis island ancestry museum and searching the web for the case notes and any information about her father, which leads up to an emotional meeting with her mother, when she finally confesses what she did. This is ambiguous as Mary is only sane some of the time, and halfway through this big emotional revelation, Mary descends back into insanity and shouts at Elizabeth and acts as if she does not know her, when Elizabeth says she is her daughter, she refuses and says that she is still pregnant with her and that she is still married to Patrick. Elizabeth is then faced with the decision of protecting her mother, or telling anyone what she did. Alongside, her marriage is worsening and she suspects her husband of cheating, and disgusted by her accusations he leaves. Elizabeth begins to mirror her mother’s insane behaviour. In the scene after her husband leaves, she erratically starts to cook, and is talking to herself. “I could kill for some lamb”. She begins scribbling things down onto notepaper, frantically, mirroring her mother’s behaviour again.
She then leaves her house, halfway through cooking, erratically, she has no shoes on. She then pulls up to her mother’s empty home. She mixes two glasses of whisky. She calmly goes into her mother’s room and puts on her clothes; she sits in her mirror and applies her lipstick, calmly. She looks at a picture of her mother and her father on the dresser, her youthful smiling mother. She then stares at herself. She picks up a pair of scissors and cuts her hair in attempt to copy her mother’s youthful appearance.
She then starts to throw things and rips off wallpaper. She then discovers more crazy scribbles on the walls, written by her mother, written in childlike writing. “Patrick’s favourite is lamb. He loves it. He loved it to death.”
Meanwhile Elizabeth’s husband had come home to find things burning, Elizabeth’s shoes are still there but the front door was open and her car was gone. He knows where she has gone.
He speeds to Mary’s house and finds Elizabeth crumpled on the floor, screaming out in pain. She has gone into labour and it is too late to go to the hospital. He has to deliver their baby. This brings them back together, she exclaims that she is sorry, and the arrival of their child slaps Elizabeth back to reality. The final scene is Elizabeth and her husband proudly clutching their new daughter, and Elizabeth say’s “We’ll call her Mary”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7896385/Scientists-prove-that-women-are-better-at-multitasking-than-men.html?sms_ss=google&at_xt=4d63b785deb72bd7%2C0

Pitchy Pitchy

The pitch for AS live is on thursday this week! I have been preparing and expanding my ideas, and im chuffed because I had an idea today that I really like; for the VT inserts, I would like to do some kind of driving or parking challenge! Its the age old battle of who is the better driver, man or woman?! (insurance premiums alone are proof that the latter rules the road (: )
Also, some kind of map or direction reading task, and perhaps some kind of mult-tasking task.

Had a look through the star now website and have jotted down a few names that I would love to contact if I were commissioned. It felt weird though... trolling through peoples headshots, felt like a stalker...

Last week I made lists of stereotypical male and female jobs:

Male

• Bulider
• Doctor
• Lawyer
• Acountant
• Policeman
• Fireman
• Postman
• Milkman
• Bin man
• Chef
• Actor
• Waiter
• Manager/Owner
• Barber
• Mechanic/ Car repairs/ Sales
• Delivery driver
• Plumber
• Electrician
• Miner
• Lorry driver
• Doorman
• Undertaker
• Butcher
• Banker
• Factory worker
• Scientist
• Engineer
• Surgeon
• Psychologist
• Footballer
• Taxi Driver
• I.T technician

Female

• Secretary
• Receptionsist
• Homemaker/Mother
• Nurse
• Shop assistant
• Model
• Actress
• Air hostess
• Teacher
• PA
• Bakery
• Jewellery shop
• Seamstress
• Laundry
• Maid/Cleaner
• Tutor
• Nanny
• Counsellor
• Social Worker
• Librarian
• Dental nurse/assistant
• Florist
• Hairdresser
• Beautician/ Make up
• Dancer
• Wedding/Party Planner
• Admin assistant
• Cashier
• Book keeping
• Waitress
• Midwife
• Stripper
• Interior design
• Childcare

I also have a list of quiz questions, but I have run out of time as I have a tutorial with Helen now, so I shall update you later!

AS live

Yesterday Hans came in to talk to us about our as live projects. It was very useful as we all shared ideas we have been having. I found it helpful as the idea I had been sitting on, well, i thought it was quite crap, but by sharing it with the others and getting their feedback, I felt a lot more confident about it. Basically, I've come up with an idea for a kind of battle of the sexes show, where there would be two presenters, one male, one female, representing their sides. It would consist of quiz questions, and tasks. The tasks would be stereotypically 'male' tasks, i.e d.i.y and other such things, and stereotypically 'female' tasks, such as baking or ironing..? to be confirmed! I would also have an element of proffessions, for example, as an accountant trying hairdressing or something! I envisage a davina esque female presenter as this would be a loud and competive show, and she is very loud, and someone like James Corden as the male presenter as he is also like that.
But it is all to be developed!

Back to reality

So back to uni!
Sorry it has taken me a while a to bloggy blog, I have moved this week and I dont get the wonderful worldwide web installed until tomorrow so have to do it whilst here in the studios.

I am SO excited for our fiction adaptation unit, I think most people would be more excited for the AS LIVE, which I am, however its quite daunting, whereas fiction adpatation is right up my street! We get to intertwine literature ( a love of mine ) into a script for television ( another love of mine! ) and its all just very exciting!

Not much has changed, except the injection of 16 newbies! Its weird! But we havnt really seen them much yet, so I look forward to getting to know them. Other changes are some new posters, and a new lift carpet, woohoo!

Over christmas I rewatched Inception as I got it for christmas and I just love it and a small sample of other christmas rubbish, along with now the much talked about big fat gypsy weddings, grabbing and non paying tax aside, its actually a really interesting watch, and I am so surprised that these gypsys allowed this documentary to happen, however so far there has been no men shown except some grooms and the young teens.

Helen has just shown us the bbc series Sherlock, my first experience of Sherlock, I have not seen any films or adaptations before or read any of the books. I really liked the series, its extremely clever and fast paced with some beautiful shots.

Well, until next time!

06/12/2010 d-day.

The end is here! I have 2 completed essays that I am about to hand in, and Dylan is doing the final tweaks to our film. Everything that we have worked towards over the last 4 months has come to an end! I have to say that my favorite thing that we have done is the direction film, I like all the pre production elements of it, and filming in the style on Tim Burton was always going to be fun!

I actually also liked writing the narrative & genre essay, it was an interesting subject and I felt that I did fairly well in it. It was also a bonus that I HAD to watch the entire first series of Lost in one week, for research purposes of course!

I am looking forward to our second year, I especially like the sound of the fiction adaptation unit, however, I am not sure whether or not I am looking forward to newbies! It will be nice to have some more people, as we are such a small group, but as we are the first year of this course, and we are such a small group, it may feel weird, like they are coming into our territory! lol. But I'm sure they will be lovely and we can take them all under our wings :)

Well, Merry Christmas! See you in the New Year!