Story Telling Unit: Idea Development

Having brainstormed my ideas it was time to develop them into a concise plan for me to follow when writing the screen play. I had mapped out a lot of ideas and having gone through them all  decided the story of a successful business man and broken woman would be the most powerful mentally and visually intriguing. Below is my original idea development plan sheet. As you can see from the image below it, I've made a lot of changes to my original plan along the way. After thinking about the practicality of the scenes in terms of writing and the shoot, expenses and casting I decided that the idea needed a bit of mending to suit my requirements and also, the message I wanted to pass across wasn't really apparent in my first development sheet. With my storyline I hope to explore themes like Social and financial difference, Heirarchy, Racism, Gender divide, and Stereotypes.
The development sheet was really helpful because it helped me to string together all these individual ideas and concepts I had that have now made what I will call my ten minute screenplay. It also helped me to develop the individual stories and outcome of my characters.

Characters:
My characters have a lot of depth individually and will be perceived to be their own villains. So in Regards to the problems they face in the story, a majority of them stem from their fixed view on life and the people surrounding them. Clyde is a smart and successful business man with over ten thriving businesses that make life financially comfortable for him. However, emotionally he's got it all wrong. He has withdrawal symptoms where people are concerned. He doesn't associate himself with those below his social status. And even those that match up to him he  shuns aside. Yet he finds himself in love with a poor and damaged woman. He's a selfish and self conceited man who feels the world must bend at his every whim, or need. On the other hand, Rowena is a broken woman carrying a lot of baggage from hardships she's faced over time. She prostitutes for a living to make ends meet and is a coke addict. The drugs for her are an escape from her harsh reality. She never allows herself to feel good about something because of the past she has lived and when she met a man 'clyde' who showed her love and affection she couldn't react in the way she'd wanted because she'd never been subject to such compassion and also felt she didn't deserve him.

The idea of these two people, broken in so many different ways and from very different social backgrounds, coming together is what will make this story. In this day and age, a lot of people have a very materialistic view where love is concerned and forget that it thrives solely on the souls of people and not designer bags or a dozen roses. They've also forgotten that love knows no boundaries, discrimination, hate or fear and for that reason Clyde and Rowena will end up together. It's unfortunate that this perception of love is seen as unreal when this is how it should be and that is why I'm aiming to make the characters as real as possible; because there are people out there that can relate to either one of them.

The pitch:
Clyde is a successful and selfish businessman in love with Rowena, a young prostitute struggling to make ends meet. Will his pride, and her broken soul ruin a potentially happy ending?