Planning Play.

Character

My character, Arya(just because I finished to watch Game of Thrones and I think that Arya is the bad*ss of all series and I just love her.), is a 23 years old woman. Although she is really young yet, she is a strong, conscious woman. She's always lived with just her father who for all her life tried to make her happy, to give her everything she needed and tried to make up for her being motherless. She lives in Italy, near Turin. There she finished her studies and graduated and now she works in a coffee shop. She has always dreamed in big, and so she feels like the place and the life she's living is holding her from herself. As young as she is, she doesn't know yet what she wants to do with her life, for sure she doesn't want to work in that coffee shop for the rest of her life. She wants to find her inner self, what she wants to do in her life and discover as many things as she can. She wants to live every single moment, and not regret anything when she will be old.

She will bring her camera with her to take pictures and record places, and a backpack with essential stuff.

From my researches, I looked at some non-fiction's stories of inspirational people:

• Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist), who talks about dreams and destiny. My character will be looking for her destiny. She is still young, she doesn't know much about the world so she wants to get out from her little spot and discover as much as she can. She wants to find out what her destiny is and accomplish it.

"People are capable, at any time of their life, of doing what they dream of."

• Elizabeth Gilbert, who travelled to look for her inner self. As her, my character will "eat, pray, and love".

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."

• Christopher McCandless, the guy who left all his riches to live in full into the wild nature. My character will not possibly do the same thing, but I like the fact that he wanted to live a modest life, he didn't need all the money or material things his parents wanted to privilege him with. My character then will follow the same path, she will not look for richness, she will just live modestly. Seems strange or difficult to find someone like this, because at the time we are, since little kids, people grow up with the idea to have the latest phone, bag and whatsoever. People are so materialist nowadays and when you actually find someone who cares more about affections and attentions, seems quite strange.

"If you want something in life, reach out and grab it."

• Cheryl Strayed, a strong woman who went through so many things in her life, she fell so many times but she raised up stronger than before. Her life's been so complex and through everything she found strength in that journey that allowed her to start all over again. She hasn't forgot what happened before her new life, but she was strong enough to call it "past". I will reference my character to her because of her strength. Even though she will break down, as Cheryl, she will restart again stronger than before.

"What if all those things I did, were the things that got me here?"

LOCATIONS

My character will go through both cities and wild. From Italy, where she will hike the green Italian mountains, she will arrive in Lyon, France, where she will get a plane to Japan, for her meditation time, and then she will go back to France, Paris, to enjoy the lovely and fresh french air.

TARGET AUDIENCE

GENRE: I chose drama/adventure as genre because I want it to be dramatic but not too much, as anyway she will leave everything, including her loved father.

AGE: Considering that my character will be around the twenties, I thought to have age range of 19+. It's usually the common age in which,wether you're female or male, you're asking yourself "what am I going to do of my life?" and I think there's not an age where you stop questioning that.

PSYCHOGRAPHY: For this section I used the video I'm taking inspiration from. Other psychographics examples could be traveling, meditation...

GEODEMOGRAPHICS: It will be "distributed" in UK and Europe.

SYNOPSIS

INTRO: *slam of doors* - narration of what happened.

MIDDLE: Arya argues with her father. She leaves and all she brings is a backpack with her. Briefly explanation and what happens during her journey through Italy and then France and Japan.

END: She comes back to her old house, where her father's been waiting for 2 long years. Hugs.

SOUNDS EFFECT & SOUNDTRACK

For my sound effects I will use some nature sounds and noises, japanese meditation sounds, street noises, french and italian sounds... For nature and street noises I will record them by myself. About the meditation sound I will probably try to find one on youtube..

I will also use some soundtracks from the movie Into the Wild, written and played by Eddie Vedder, from Pearl Jam.

I won't use all of these, but I will just pick some of them.