TITLE: Proserpina
MEDIA: Feature Narrative Script
SOFTWARE: Writer Duet
PAGES: 30 (Pages 13-14 Shown)
CLASS: FMX 340 Screenwriting Development
PROFESSOR: Cynthia Savaglio
SEMESTER: Fall 2022
This script was my final project for screenwriting development, for the project we had to write thirty pages of a feature length script we had been developing throughout the semester. My script idea was an anti-romance and thriller film about a young grad student, Amy, who meets an artist, Chris, and the two fall in love, she later finds out that in order to create his art he murders young women and covers their bodies in plaster to turn them to statues. I started this script showing Chris covering a women and paster then I switched the perspective to Amy for the rest of the script, I wanted to audience to fall in love with Chris’s charm as Amy did and almost forgive and/or forget his sinister side due to his charisma. The story is a commentary about how we excuse specifically men’s harmful behavior because he’s seen nice or likeable.
TITLE: Retribution
MEDIA: Short Narrative Script
SOFTWARE: Writer Duet
PAGES: 9 (Pages 6-7 Shown)
CLASS: FMX 341 Screenwriting Shorts
PROFESSOR: Thomas Aquilina
SEMESTER: Spring 2022
This script is about a young woman, Olivia, leaving an abusive relationship only to find herself in a slasher type situation. It starts with Olivia quietly leaving her home in the early hours of the day with a black eye, she has nothing but a bag and some cash. She eventually gets to a bridge where she decides to spend the night but as she’s sleeping a loud noise wakes her up, she ends up getting a man, Dale, to stop to give her a ride and he lets her stay at his campsite. While there a masked man kills Dale and attempts to kill her. After, the police bring her back to her abusive husband, but she now knows her true strength. I wanted this film to have a “good for her” type ending while also being ambiguous just ending when she taken back home, and she sits on the couch flashing a maniacal grin.
TITLE: Opera
MEDIA: Short Narrative Script
SOFTWARE: Writer Duet
PAGES: 9 (Pages 3-4 Shown)
CLASS: FMX 341 Screenwriting Shorts
PROFESSOR: Thomas Aquilina
SEMESTER: Spring 2022
This script is a modernized and Americanized version of the 1987 Giallo film “Opera” by Dario Argento. It follows the story of Betty who is an opera singer being stalked by a masked killer. For this adaptation, I kept a lot of the story the same, but turned in into more of a horror/comedy through the characters dialogue and responses to everything that’s happening. I changed the setting to modern day New York City, which made it have an almost “Black Swan” type of feel but as a slasher/dark comedy.
TITLE: I Hate my Roommates
MEDIA: Short Narrative Script
SOFTWARE: Writer Duet
PAGES: 8 (Pages 1-2 Shown)
CLASS: FMX 341 Screenwriting Shorts
PROFESSOR: Thomas Aquilina
SEMESTER: Spring 2022
This script was a group project where we had to adapt the story of “New Girl” into a short film. We changed it to be based in modern day at a university co-ed dorm. “New Girl” tend to show a lot of the characters relationships and also the good and bad times that come with living with your friends or peers and we really wanted to focus on how the bonds that we create with people can help us overcome the hardships. We wanted to keep really strong characters and friendships between these characters so the read really falls in love with their relationship and bonds.
TITLE: Home Alone
MEDIA: Short Narrative Script
SOFTWARE: Writer Duet
PAGES: 2 (Pages 1-2 Shown)
CLASS: FMX 240 Screenwriting Fundamentals
PROFESSOR: Cynthia Savaglio
SEMESTER: Fall 2021
This project was to create a script that look place all in one scene. I decided for my idea I wanted to create a psychological horror about a young girl who is home alone at night. She is sitting on the couch watching TV while scrolling on her phone, she heard a loud bang but is not sure where it is coming from and in her paranoia, she thinks into coming from outside. In the end she realized it was just coming from the TV. I wanted to create a script that shows the feeling of the first time you stay home alone at night, and everything feels like a horror movie or that someone is trying to break in when in reality it’s usually just all in your head.