Over the past two days I’ve quickly gathered together a short story to center around the main visual image within my script – which is at the moment titled ‘Window’ (yeah, original). Heavily inspired by short horror films online such as Lights Out (2013, Sandberg) I decided to make the short mostly without dialogue in my first draft, as the horror genre relies heavily on the use of sound and that’s something I wanted to explore within the script. I decided to tell the story of an unknown male struggling with work, and have the antagonist/spirit serve as a distraction from that, mostly to contrast the mundane action the character is undertaking and to normalise the entire situation and hopefully make an audience feel as though it could happen to them in the same space. Due to knowing the space I wanted for the script and having a minimal amount of plot, I didn’t really need to do any research for the script as of yet outside of visualising what is going on, and I feel like the script was a good exercise for increasing the tension in my writing.

Window (Working Title) (FIRST DRAFT)-By GEORGE MORRIS

Bibliography:

Sandberg, D.S. (dir.) (2013) Lights Out Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDzdDfviLI [accessed 1o October 2017].