Scriptwriting- Writing Kickstart

This week in scriptwriting we started to prepare for writing our screenplay ideas and did a few exercises and tasks to help us kickstart our writing, we started to draw from existing memories and feelings and it helps to understand it more when your writing what you know instead of making something up out of the blue. The first task was to write down something you dislike and why you dislike it, I wrote about how I dislike people talking and using their phones in the cinema while watching a film, because it's the exact opposite of what you should be doing while your at the cinema. Knowing this is what some people do or what some people also dislike it would be a good characteristic to use in a story because people will be able to relate to it and connect to the story because theres that shared opinion. We also talked about habits and habits that we know we or other people have that were quite interesting, I recalled a habit someone had at my college of always going around tidying up and an obsession for things to be clean and for everything to be in it's place which sometimes could get out of hand. This can be used to a similar use by giving a character this habit or obsession because I know more about it because I'm drawing from experience of knowing someone who does have it so it's a lot more realistic.

We ended the session by each writing a short paragraph or two about someone and incorporated these habits and ideas or memories into the character and story. I wrote about a man waiting for his coffee shop to open in his car trying to get across that he is addicted to get coffee and is always on time or early for anything he needed to do.

Will Taylor waited for a quarter of an hour in his car. He was early. His daily coffee shop 'Coffee Empire' had yet to open although a small queue started to form outside. Will remembered the days when queues would lead around the corner for a drink from 'Coffee Empire' and to tell you the truth, it doesn't even taste very good. The doors began to open and Will made his way over, with the correct change in hand, Will joined the queue and continued to wait.   

That was my small narrative story that I put together using what we had talked about earlier and what we had learned in previous lessons. I like the detail it goes into about this mans life and his habits but it doesn't seem to go anywhere narratively very fast and needs to continue more for a story to develop but overall I think its a nice build up to a story.