Pathways

We now have a working title for the drama short, Pathways..
Emma has written a treatment for it:

Pathways is a one character driven story based around one a middle aged man named Gary who through his captivating life stories which he’s telling us we learn his true predicament and how he arrived there. He’s walking and talking to camera about his life and past events with comical value to them. His only companion is his dog called Ben who follows him wherever he goes. He’s an upbeat kind of guy with a sense of humour as he laughs at his own comical stories. The music you will hear during this will be acoustic guitar track of happy major chords strumming away. Although, he uses humour to cover up his back story which is quite dark and sad. As the story develops the slow revelation of his situation unfolds and the music will change in suitability of the mood.

Intended audience 16-45 Working class as most could relate to his stories as they are from all stages of his life and he comes from a working class background.

Intended purpose: showing stories of homeless guys that you pass in the street everyday. Homeless people do seem to go unnoticed by society as you walk past them on the street and pay them no attention. We want to make awareness that these are humans with stories just like yourself.

We want to keep the fact that he is homeless withheld until the very end. People do not need to know of his predicament to get to know the character.

Shot like Sign language, + Barry +_ about a girl. We knew from early on we wanted a character talking to camera like a kind of diary. Shooting style would include lots of close ups, depth of field, shallow focus, cut aways, subtle flashbacks.
SOUND, the soundtrack being upbeat and happy acoustic guitar track, very much like that in the sign language piece.