I love classical music. Most people who know me I think know this about me and I know exactly where I get it from. My Grandfather. See, my Grandfather grew up in east London during the war to a working class family. He began to play the piano from a young age and before long it was clear that this child had a gift for music. Unfortunately for him this gift was not nurtured by his parents as they could not fully appreciate what his talent meant. They would rarely let him practice and eventually would make him leave a music school that he had been able to acquire a scholarship to. To cut a long story short unfortunately he never became the musician he could have been (despite the fact he is still a wonderfully gifted piano player) but, I know my love for listening to classical music comes from him.
Anyway, I listen to Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Debussy etc quite often and I was listening to a famous piece by Chopin the other day and I felt inspired to write something around it. The piece and Chopin in general are highly emotional in many ways and I wanted to capture this in a short. Of course, I was also very much inspired by my family history as well and looked to that for a bit of inspiration to add to what I was already feeling when listening to Chopin.
Classical music has always had a transformative power for me because of how much it can touch my soul. Often I will listen to it when I say prayers. Often it helps me feel the power of the prayers more and feel connected to the person I am praying for. This power that classical music can have over me was also something I wanted to convey in this.
Moving forward with this script I acknowledge that it will need a lot more character development and thinking about the wants of the main two characters so that their intensions and motivations are understandable. At the moment there is a change that occurs in one of the characters and I think it is clear why it happens but it does not feel very satisfying right now because I have not set up the character enough to warrant this change.
Back on track. Three days left to write five scripts. Bring. It. ON.
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