West Coast 5

   Title:

Boyle Heights

Genre:

Mystery, Adventure-drama

 Medium:

T.V. cable series. All streaming platforms.

Boyle Heights fits best as a T.V series because this story is an ongoing    mystery unfolding before our eyes and needs to be told episodically to understand the full scope and range of the drama as the information is not given in full.

Additive Comprehension:

Origin story- Character

Character reveal

Story world reveal.

Target Market:

Ages 13-45-year-old men&

16-50-year-old women.

The nature of this story lends itself to the PG-13 rating and pushes it in a way. The adventurous nature of the story makes it enjoyable for young adults as they go on an action packed journey, But the Mysterious dramatic nature of the story is grounding and hits home for a lot of the older audience as it deals with certain issues only they would understand.

   Protagonist:

Alex Mayfeather

Alex is the boy who uncovers the mystery of his estranged father. Very ambitious, intense, and impatient.

Antagonist:

General Marshall (working name)

General Marshall is the person behind the mystery of the estranged fathers. His mindset is extremely nationalistic. The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few type of mindset.

Main supporting characters:

Johnny (cousin/neighbor)

Ruth (neighbor)

Mason(neighbor)

Primary Locations:

Boyle Heights Los Angeles.

home to our Protagonist and main characters. Very suburban neighborhood. Upper middle class.

The Story

Boyle Heights, a quiet suburban neighborhood where the grass is always green, the trees filled with sounds of life, Streets used as playgrounds for children during the summer, Homes are filled with loving families where everyone seems happy to comply under the govern of Governor Lucan. This town remains untouched by time. Although the change in the government has caused a bit of an uproar in the inner city of Los Angeles, so much so that there is Non violent resistance named the “Tri-Star resistance” that seeks to peacefully change the government.

In Boyle Heights everything works like clockwork, Kids are all sent to school at the same time, the husbands all have the same 9-5 schedule, and the wives stay at home cleaning and preparing for the return of their families. To live any other way was unheard of and taboo. As so is the story of these 4 neighbors.

Alex Mayfeather is a 15-year-old boy that doesn’t live the conventional life that everybody else does. Losing his father in a “work related” accident at a young age leaving behind him and his mother and a vast amount of money for them both. Alex’s mother became a heavy drinker soon after the accident, neglecting Alex. He had everything he didn’t want and nothing he did. All he had that was near and dear to him were his group of 3 friends Johnny, Ruth, and mason. All considered outcasts because all lost their fathers to the same “work related” accident that Alex lost his in. They were all looked at as black sheep by the neighborhood but they embraced it making them closer within their group.

It was an early Friday morning and the streets of West Hills were busy with people commuting to work and school, Alex had overslept and didn’t see the point in going to school that late. His mother, being drunk by that time in the morning refused to let Alex stay home. She kept saying the “company” she was bringing doesn’t like when kids are around for “business meetings.” Alex lies to her and says he’s going to school, but in reality he hides in the basement of his house where him and his dad would spend some time in.

While his mother is up above “entertaining” her “company” he’s down in the basement eagerly reading news articles about the old Skyriders. Completely submerged into every aspect of them. Adoring them, idolizing them, wishing he would be one just to fly away from that place. While going through his dad’s old magazines and newspapers he sees something slip out from one of them. As he goes to pick it up, what he sees would change the course of not only his life, but the lives of his friends Johnny, Ruth, and Mason. He rushed up the stairs to show his mother and ask her questions. He runs into the kitchen and shows her the picture. She quickly becomes pale and at a loss for words as she sees her “company” standing behind Alex. Alex not noticing says to her “Dad was an engineer! “He helped the Skyriders! Johnny, Ruth, and Masons dad all helped the Skyriders!” Alex then hears a voice behind him say “The Skyriders were a corrupt group the misutilized their authority and power, them and everybody who helped them deserved every bit that was coming to them.” As Alex turns around he sees a tall man in a Wolf Raider General suit standing menacingly over him. The man in the General suit then extends his hand and says “ You must be Alex, pleasure to meet you boy.” Alex at a loss for words sprints to the front door, gets on his bike to go tell the rest of his friends the truth of their fathers, with the picture in hand.