Synopsis:
A man and a woman are sitting across from each other at a small table in a dimly lit restaurant. They exchange pleasantries and laugh softly as they wait for the waitress with dessert. The waitress, SARA shows up with a grin from ear to ear as she presents the couple with their chocolate souffle. The couple now a regular the restaurant, feed each other the rich dessert as she women begins to chuckle from the embarrassment. Sara looks on dreaming of a day she will do the same with someone she loves until she suddenly spots a man staring through the restaurant window. Having noticed the same man time and time again observing the same couple, Sara decides to sum up all her courage and confront the man. As he sees the angry waitress approaching, the man runs into an alley way where he is chases down and tackled. The man cowardly asks her to stop as he introduced himself as KIRITO YAGAMI. He explains that he was simply admiring the relationship of that couple that happens to dine on his way back from work. Kirito’s romantic side was soon undermined by his next words as he began listing all his failures in life especially in the relationships. Sara stops the pathetic looking Kirito from his grovelling as she helps him back to his feet. She tidies him up as they walk out of the dark alley way. They stop at the restaurant door she takes out her note pad and pen and starts to write. Kirito looks on in confusion as she hands him the piece of paper. She tells him to call her when he’s free as she heads back inside. Kirito halts her as he is baffled by her and asks if it’s just pity. She replies with a smile, “I just like hopeless romantics”.

Reflection:
The character profiles and scenarios helped me to think about the direction I want to take the story as there are endless possibilities if I was to apply a bit of creative thinking to it. Even before I got to the synopsis I already had a somewhat developed idea that I could work with in my synopsis. The fact that I already have the basis of a narrative ready for me to use to expand upon is helpful whenever faced by the dreaded writer’s block. Personally didn’t find it too difficult to place my characters into a story as the prompt is just what it is, a prompt so I just us that as a launching pad for my ideas. I guess choosing a genre helped decide how I’m going to write the story as I would a horror story differently than a romantic comedy. Since these genres have many tropes and conventions attached to them, I actually try to avoid them as much as possible so in a way it did help me to go in a certain direction with my story. These exercises help me establish my character and the narrative they will be in and help decide if I want to commit to writing a screenplay about it. This is a great time saving device as there were times in the past where I would start writing a screenplay and would drop it because I feel it’s going nowhere or it just isn’t interesting anymore. This way I am assured that writing a screenplay for that particular story would not be a waste of time and effort. By having a synopsis I would have an outline of all the major points of the narrative so I can write towards a plot point rather than just writing aimlessly.