Rat Trap

As part of my pre-production university module we have to develop a story ready for pitching as a short film in the third year. For my story I developed Rat Trap, a story about a naive rat pirate named Pokey who is abandoned on an island by the humans he thought was his crew and he has to learn a rats place in a pirates world.

This is the main character Pokey, he joined a pirate crew after wanting to escape life as a city rat surrounded by filth. He wanted to see the world but he doesn't realise he's more of a castaway than a pirate, he has deluded himself into thinking he is a valued member of the crew.

This is the antagonist, Scab. He has lived on the

 island for a while now. He was once abandoned on the island much like Pokey is now, he seems to have lost his marbles a little from being trapped so long.