Story Telling Unit-25 Word Pitch


Ask the Lonely


Genre: Drama

Pitch: 

 What is it to have dementia? Father McLarry, a man who served most of his life as a vicar is now lost, but will his doctor help him find himself again?

Characters: 
Father McLarry- A 67 year old ex-vicar who suffers from dementia is stuck in a world he once knew. He gets these hallucinations which make him imagine things that aren't there. I'm terms of clothing he wares a smart shirt with jogging bottoms. This is because of their elastic  waste makes them easier to put on without messing with flys and buttons as well as keeping him warm (older people tend to get colder). It's out of the ordinary too, a mixed up outfit which reflects his mind.

Doctor-Middles class man of an Indian ethnicity. Smartly dressed and tries to look into the mind of McLarry. 



Locations:
Most of his scenes are based either in McLarry's cottage or his doctors office.
Cottage is slightly cluttered with pictures from magazines etc. For example, Uncle Bens rice which has his picture in the front. He would talk to this saying stuff like "hello, what's your name then?" 



Basic plot:
Found wondering the streets at 5AM- it's common for people with dementia to wonder off and it can be seen as quite dangerous. He nearly walks into a road while a car is coming but gets held back by this woman. She feels sorry for him and questions where he lives. Although the full story won't be shown it will be implied in a flashback when the doctor asks him if he remembers how he got here(the doctors). (POV)
He keeps reverting to when he was in his early 20s as a trainee vicar when religion was more prominent- the thing to do.
Ends on him standing in an empty church but he sees it as being full. 
He is lonely, and has no family left. His son died in a car crash when he was 19 and his wife soon after divorced him.

Change-Change in the doctors ambition. He wants to cure him, or at least help reduce the impact of the illness. It turns out this is a world he is most comfortable in and he would be safer there.

Theory- Music-important because it holds memories. People usually like the music of their younger days not because it's better necessarily but because it takes them back to a time where they were most comfortable in their life. 
Frank Sinatra- my way

Long term memory and short term memory

Inspiration:
My own Grandfather suffers it, so I have seen it first hand
Eleanor Rigby the Beatles song.

'Father McKenzie, writing the words
Of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks
In the night when there's nobody there
What does he care'



Life on Mars (2003 BBC Television Series) 



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