Writer's Block

Over this festive season I have been writing my script, which is aptly named Writer's Block. The plot follows an artist who is having 'painter's block' and spends his days staring at a blank canvas seeking inspiration, but only finding distraction in his surrounding appartment. After a few days the artist starts taking to the streets at night hoping to find inspiration, until one day he comes across a group of graffiti writers (hence the title) and goes along with them as they paint the city. He ends up finding his inspiration and painting a huge spraypaint mural on a wall overlooking the city, before returning home elated that he can finally paint again. On sitting in front of his canvas again he finds himself back to square one, with nothing to paint.

There were a few films in my head as I was writing this, the main one was Martin Scorsese's Life Lessons (1989), along with aspects of The Driller Killer (1979) & Quality Of Life (2004).






As my script doesn't have any dialogue it has been a struggle to write without directing it, due to this I feel that it has ended up rather short and I am unsure as to whether or not it is a satisfactory length for a visually driven piece or still running just under. To remedy this I have toyed with the idea of adding a voice over narration, but as of yet have not commited to doing so. I intend to do some test writing and see how it works first, with hopefully a well-timed narration not taking too much away from the visual and audial aspects of the piece.