AICE Media Studies

  Plan for shooting the script: Locations: Therapist's office (My kitchen) Jim's apartment (my room) AA meeting (My garage) Everything in this short film will be shot indoors, eliminating a lot of the risks associated with filming outdoors INT. THERAPIST'S OFFICE - DAY: Shot during the day. Specific date not mentioned. INT. JIM'S APARTMENT - NIGHT: Shot during the night. Specific date not mentioned. INT. AA MEETING - NIGHT: Shot during the night. Specific date not mentioned. INT. JIM'S APARTMENT - DAY: Shot during the day. Specific date not mentioned. INT. THERAPIST'S OFFICE - DAY: Shot during the day. Specific date not mentioned. Costuming:     Jim should be wearing casual clothes, jeans and a T-shirt or buttondown, boots or running shoes, nothing too special Linda should be dressed slightly more professionally. My thinking is closer to Dr. Melfi from "The Sopranos". I see Linda wearing a grey or black pantsuit with a white button-down and maybe the t...

  INT. THERAPIST'S OFFICE - DAY We open on a close-up of JIM, a disheveled, middle-aged man with bloodshot eyes and a heavy five-o'clock shadow. He sits in a plush chair in the office of his therapist, DR. LINDA WELLS, staring blankly ahead. Linda sits across from him, notebook in hand. LINDA: So, Jim. It's been three weeks since our last session. How have things been going? JIM: (sighs heavily) Not great, Linda. I thought I was getting better, but I'm starting to realize I'm still pretty messed up. Linda nods sympathetically. LINDA: It's okay, Jim. Recovery is a process, and it's normal to have setbacks. What's been going on? JIM: Well... I started gambling again. Linda's eyebrows raise in concern. LINDA: Illegally? JIM: Yeah. I owed some money to some... not-great people. And I thought I could win it back. But I lost everything. My savings, my job... everything. Linda leans forward in her chair. LINDA: That's a really tough situation...