Hello Alhuceimos,
I am sitting in a cibercafe which also functions as a barber shop, on a stop switching busses in Ouarzazat, in front of me they are shaving someone's neck, it is great.
I send you the first story of the guys from Al Houceima, Tarik, maybe you can interlace yours. The one about the shoeshine boy and the secret, that we talked about, that Mustafa could be a double agent, mafia and policeman at once. It resembles the closest, what the group said, but I have abandoned their considerations about what will happen once they arrive at the iberian cost. I hope it works out for the dialogues.
The plot start in the Florido plaza and ends at the beach, in the Cafe Chipula. The protagonist is a collective. A group of boys willing to leave for Spain are in the Florido and start planning the idea (this could be the presentation), they decide to start from the Chipula at night. Before that they have to collect the material and that is where the adventure starts: they split the work, three of them called Kamal, Shaib and Najib, have to collect money, another one the gasoline. To get the money there are different options: to rob, to lend it from their families or to sell something. They have to give the dough to one of the mafia guys of the village, Mustafa, who arranges the departure, the boat and bribes the police.
Mustafa is short with a belly, because he has money, he always wears suit and tie, is bald except for a pigtail in his neck and the most important thing in the game is that we never see his face: he always appears with his back or half profile to the camera. He wears black sunglasses. We can distinguish him as Mustafa because on his right hand he wears a very prominent golden ring and always smokes a cigar. He lives at the Florido plaza.
The material they have to collect and afterwards hide in the Cafe Chipula is: motor, gasoline, cigarettes, mobile phones wrapped in plastic and food: apples, bread and canned tuna.
The characters are - all of them get on the boat except for Mustafa:
- Mustafa
- Camal, Shaib and Najib, all three are strong, with a dangerous appearance. One is bald, another wears a headscarf. They wear knives in order to break the boat at the end of the trip so that everyone has to swim to the coast.
- Khalid is the best swimmer on board that will help the others to get to the coast if things get rough.
- Hussein and Halima, are married and pregnant
- Jamal, the gasoline guy
- Malika, a black woman
- Said, Yusuf, Hassan, Abdallah, Ayub, Hafid, Muhammad, Shukri and Alia.
The first dialogue we started writing is between Camal and Mustafa:
C - Salam, Draza en wawarn: mshar? Mani y mermi ghanefegh
- Salama, I only say two words: How much money, when and where do we leave
M - Come tomorrow at the same time with 7000 dh and then we will talk.
End of the story of the first group
The story I worked out with the guys is the following, our hero is a 15 year old boy that lives on the outskirts of the city and makes his living shining shoes in the Florido plaza.
On the plaza there is a kind of conspiracy going on (obviously the plan to leave in patera from the chipula beach) and there are some characters, with whom our hero has to interact. Those are:
a group of young people that make some sort of plans and send him away any time he gets close to him
a sir with a mustache and a white berber coat who owns a kiosk on the plaza but it seems that the kiosk is a disguise and he is really dedicated to trafficking, above all persons.
A well-dressed sir sitting on the terrace of the cafe florido who asks the boy to clean his shoes, and he ends up asking him suspicious questions, it results he is a secret agent.
The boy has to interact with those characters to later end up in the island of chipula, where they have to take the patera directed to the coast of Andalucia.
End of the story of the second group
We have only worked on the foundation or synopsis of the story and explained a little bit how the structure of the dialogues functions...
We did not have enough time to develop it. There was also talks about forged cheques, gasoline, golden jewelry... but they exagerated and it seemed more like a screenplay and we had to cut it short. I thought it would be more important to create a basic story, to which we could later, by way of the dialogues add different possibilities. It was something that took them some time to understand but it came out fine.
Tarik
