Starting my screenplay

I have given it a lot of thought over the past few weeks and I finally think I have a good idea for a screenplay. The images are beginning to form in my head of who my main character is and what she stands for.

Cherry McBride on the surface is an irreverent, seemingly liberated woman. Full of wit and charming quips. But beneath the surface, she's miserable. She is a working class, employed at a dead end job in a supermarket. She never had enough money to go to college or get something more than just the simple life she has. Some of the only true joy she feels is when she watches vapid, trashy rich influencers on social media, i.e. Instagram.

I have not thought about the circumstance that will lead to the events of the storyline but I have the gist of the kind of journey I would like to take her on. I would like Cherry to come up with a plan to create a whole fake world and life on social media to make herself rich, without being actually rich.

When people find out about the ruse she has created, that will be when she learns that she never needed to put on a mask and that she is worthy of love and support on her own. She doesn't need validation from strangers on the internet. That is the moral of the story at a surface level.