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GHOST WRITER POSTER FINAL DRAFT

GHOST WRITER SCRIPT

THE GHOST WRITER (WIP)

Steve lumby, passionate but headstrong independent filmmaker finds his friendship with Alphonso White and his reputation tarnished when both filmmakers inexplicably have made the same film. Different actors, different shots but the exact same plot. Alphonso explains to Steve that he hired a ghost writer to write his script, Steve has also done this. Realising that the mysterious ghost writer, Basil Jägermeister must have sent the same script to both filmmakers – they begin a journey to track down the elusive writer, though the task is easier said than done.  

Cast List (WIP)

Steve Lumbly – Conner Kacperski

Alphonse White – Not me I can’t act.

Basil Jägermeister– Steve Boyes

Presenter – Steve Boyes

Film festival – extras

Actors – extras.

 

 

Int: Film Festival - Corridor

FADE IN

Tracking shot of STEVE LUMBY. Tall, stocky looking guy, but wearing the cheesiest grin on his face – he’s a man who thinks he’s made it in life. One guest offers a handshake, he shakes it vigorously. He opens the doors into the THEATRE, waltzing in.

CRABBING right, we see ALPHONSE WHITE against a wall. A slick, cool and stylish fellow; he checks his phone nonchalantly, before quickly realising the time. He styles his hair, takes a deep breath and walks into the THEATRE, catching up to STEVE.

Int: Film Festival – Theatre

Establishing Shot of theatre. It is crowded. The crowd applauds STEVE and ALPHONSE.  STEVE grins and waves confidently, ALPHONSE gives a sheepish smile and a little wave.

They both walk up to the seats and sit next to each other.

STEVE: How you doing, Al?

                  ALPHONSE: Good, Steve, good. You?   

STEVE: Great! Yeah… I mean, I’ve done it. Made a film! My own movie!

ALPHONSE: Think they’ll like it?

STEVE: Hope so.

**sandwich board style program with w and d by X**

PRESENTER walks on stage. Lights focus on PRESENTER

PRESENTER: Hello, hello, ladies and gentlemen, to the _______ Film Festival. We’ve got some fantastic movies coming up; some big names, and some independent. But all good stuff, good stuff indeed. Right then, let’s get to it. From Steve Lumby: The Incident

Lights go dim.

SHOT OF STEVES FILM.

STEVE ACTOR 1: Journey, I can’t kill those lads. There me mates!

STEVE ACTOR 2: If you loved me you’d kill them!

FADE OUT TO ANOTHER SCENE

Close up of Alphonse looking confused.

FADE IN

STEVE ACTOR 3: You’ve gone mad, Jack. Journey’s been dead for decades.

STEVE ACTOR 1: (Genuinely surprised) No, fuck off! Really!?

Close up of Alphonse. A lot of thoughts go through his mind. Feelings of anger, disappointed and betrayal. Audience applauses.

PRESENTER: What a fantastic thriller. Can I just say, the dialogue was excellent, such great characters. Coming up next, from Alphonse White: also The Incident.

Lights go dim.

SHOT OF ALPHONE’S FILM.

ALPHONSE ACTOR 1: Journey, I can’t kill those lads. There me mates!

ALPHONSE ACTOR 2: If you loved me you’d kill them!

FADE OUT TO ANOTHER SCENE

CLOSE UP OF STEVE LOOKING FRUSTRATED.

FADE IN

ALPHONSE ACTOR 3: You’ve gone mad, Jack. Journey’s been dead for decades

ALPHONSE ACTOR 1: (Genuinely surprised) No, fuck off! Really!?

FADE OUT. No applause from audience.

PRESENTER: oh, H-heh heh. Must have been based of a book. Well done for Steve and Alphonse’s interpretations – they were both fantastic. Moving on…

FADE OUT

Int: Film Festival - Corridor

STEVE marches out defeated. Alphonse is waiting for him. He wears a fake smile on his face

ALPHONSE: Hey great movie, guy, I’ve just got one little criticism- just one little nit-pick. That was my movie!

STEVE: No. Don’t you dare blame me for this, you liar.  I was already halfway through production when I heard you were making your own. You stole my idea.

ALPHONSE: You’ve got some nerve, I’ll give you that. ‘Always was a copycat, but to pin the blame on me? Your best mate? That’s low man.

STEVE: I didn’t copy anyone; I couldn’t copy from anyone because I hired a ghost writer.

ALPHONSE: Ghost writer?

STEVE: Yeah, you know. Some bozo writes a story for you, and when it’s done you take all credit for it.

ALPHONSE: So you hired this person to make you an entire script, and pretend to do all the work?

STEVE: Yeah, what of it?

ALPHONSE: I did the exact same thing.

Moment pause

STEVE: You don’t think?

ALPHONSE: I do think. We hired the same guy.

STEVE: Seriously?

ALPHONSE: Can’t think of any other reason why this happened. He probably emailed us the same script.

STEVE: Do you know who the ghost-writer was?

ALPHONSE: He wanted to remain anonymous. Went by the name of “X”

STEVE:   Yeah, it was the same person then.

ALPHONSE: I know a guy; he can trace the e-mail, Crazy Terry. We’ll find out where this “X” lives, and then we’ll sort this mess out. Don’t worry about it.

 

TERRY: Oh this is bad. You hired him?!

Establishing shot of TERRY’S CRIB. DUSTY COMPUTERS, DARK ROOM. ANIME POSTERS THAT ARE QUITE QUESTIONABLE.

ALPHONSE: What’s wrong?

TERRY: Nothing, nothing. Just your mystery writer is only Basil Jägermeister.

STEVE: Jägermeister?

TERRY: He’s the Banksy of the writing industry; no one knows what he looks like or where he lives. And his works would ruin the reputation of every producer you know. It’s true, 4-chan told me! Look, who’s your favourite film maker?

ALPHONSE: Quentin Tarantino.

TERRY: Basil.

STEVE: Steven Spielberg.

TERRY: Basil.

BOTH: George Lucas?

TERRY: Also Basil! Every ounce of creativity spewed from them has been his doing. You understand what I mean now? You can’t track him down; he’s Hollywood’s best kept secret.

Steve: Jesus.

TERRY: Now you’re getting it!

(LOOK OF CONFUSION FROM ALPHONSE)

ALPHONSE: No, sorry, this is ridiculous. There’s no way that every Hollywood movie are all written by one guy. I think you’ve been spending too long on those conspiracy sites, mate.

TERRY: (UNCOMFORTABLE EXTREME CLOSE UP. Voice suddenly gravelly.): Sometimes the conspiracies are true…

Uncomfortable pause.

  TERRY: (Still uncomfortably close to Alphonse’s face) Getting to the point, it cost a lot to hire him didn’t it; way more than an indie movie should. Basil’s played you a fool. He’s scammed you two hard.

ALPHONSE: Yeah we know, we know. Where does he live?

TERRY: Let me just track him down.

SOUNDS OF RETRO SOUND EFFECTS. GOOGLE MAPS START FROM EARTH AND ZOOMS INTO GUISBROUGH. WWW.Whereisbasil.com

TERRY: Oh this is strange, this is very strange. Why would Jägermeister be there of all places?

ALPHONSE: What? What’s going on?

STEVE: Just tell us, man!

TERRY: All this time, right under our noses.

CUT TO ESTABLISHING SHOT OF GUISBROUGH.

 VOICE OVER: Guisbrough. 

FADE TO BLACK. WE CUT TO ALPHONSE HANGING AROUND AN ALLEYAY. STEVE MARCHES TOWARDS HIM

       BASIL: Bravo lads, Bravo. You’ve found me. Congratulations.

BASIL’s chair turns around. The identity of the Ghost Writer revealed: THE PRESENTER.

(FLASHBACK TO PRESENTER SCENE)

BASIL: You were expecting someone else?

ALPHONSE: To be honest, yeah.

BASIL: Where else would I be, my lad, but hidden in plain sight?

STEVE: I don’t understand. If you worked at the festival you would have known that the films were the same. You could have told us about it earlier - stopped this mess from happening - Why didn’t you?

BASIL: I don’t know to be honest. I guess I found it funny. I mean, it is, isn’t it? It’s not just me who finds this whole ordeal hilarious? This is something that’d happen on bleeding Prank Patrol! (Laughs) Yes, you two have amused me greatly.  

STEVE: Don’t mention it, pal. Hey, do you reckon we could get paid for a comedy act? About Thirty Seven Thousand!?

BASIL: No.

STEVE: You serious? Yesterday was the worst thing that ever happened to me. People think I’m a fraud. A hack! A laughing stock! You give me a refund right now.

BASIL:  I wrote Titanic, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Hobbit! When I sent you your scripts- when you realised that your dream of becoming producers was about to come true- that was the most important day of your lives. But for me? It was Tuesday. Why should I care what happens to a bunch of third rate movie makers?

ALPHONSE: Whoa-whoa-whoa, this isn’t cool. Me and Stevey, we put a lot of work into these films – a lot of work that was sent straight to the gutter. And you just tell us to leave?

BASIL: You know I just sent the script. You’re the ones who copied it word for word. This is your own fault, really.

Steve slams hand on desk. Basil looks unimpressed.

BASIL: I have a question for you. You realise how important I am to Hollywood, don’t you? If the masses knew what I did and who I am, why the industry would be in shambles!

ALPHONSE: Shambles?

BASIL: SHAMBLES! It’d be as simple as that – I’d be out of a job, and you’d be millionaires. Your revenge… at the click of a button. I would be helpless to stop you. So here’s the question: Why am I so confident?

(BASIL pulls a gun out from under his desk. He aims it ALPHONSE and STEVE)

BASIL: Look at my face; it’s the face of a man who would shoot! I’m giving you one chance: leave now and I won’t kill you.

STEVE: You little – (STEVE charges toward BASIL.)

ALPHONSE: Steve, no!

(BASIL shoots Steve in the leg. Steve collapses, bleeding out)

BASIL: Don’t give me that look; I gave him a fair warning. I’m going to have to kill you now, very sorry. But before I blow your brains out, I need your opinion: this whole trifle would make a great short movie, wouldn’t it?

Alphonse Ponders The Thought

Cut to black. Gunfire.

Roll “credits”. Halfway through the camera zooms out, revealing to the audience that this was a movie in a short film festival. We see two people sat next to each other. They look at each other, confused.

Roll real credits.

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Poster Analysis

Auxiliary Task 1 – Poster Analysis

Auxilary Task 1

This was draft 1 of my film poster. Originally, I was going to be one of the main characters, Alphonse, however, due to struggles with timetables among other things led to the role being played by Aaron, and me with a less significant role. This poster was created before I had the role of Crazy Terry. I knew I wanted a cartoon-like style and a two shot of the two main characters, but I hadn't settled on a proper idea yet. While the cartoon type writer is a nice addition, it heavily contrasts with the picture of the actors. Also the images are blurred and unfocused.

 

Again, this poster was created before I had a less significant role in the short film. After experimenting with filters, I managed to create a comic book style effect on the background. After placing the actors onto the background, I realised what