Script Writing 9/1/14

Rachels Lesson

Script Writing

Character Plan

Katie is a mother of two children, with 2 different men. She is a care free mum. she is all about helping out doing charity work, but with helping the community she doesn't see what is happening in her home. She works as a primary school teacher in a specialised school for children with disabilities.
Amelia is the first child of Katie. She is 19 and has gone off to uni and doesn't live at home. 
Sam on the other hand is 12. He is the second child of Katie, but with another man. Sam has a bit of a complicated life because at school he is being bullied but the only person who really takes any notice is Amelia, because Katie is too busy trying to help the cause she doesn't notice anything that happens inside her own home. 

Amelia came home from university 3 days ago and is home just tidying up a little bit around the house, getting things sorted whilst her mum is at work. She picks up her brother Sam’s bag and some of his books fall out onto the floor, they have nasty notes and words written on the front covers. Amelia shocked by this, shoves everything back in Sam’s bag and calls him downstairs.

Scene 1

Amelia is tidying up the house, she picks up Sam's school bag and some of his books fall out onto the floor; they have nasty notes and words written on the front covers.

Amelia shocked by this, shoves everything back in Sam's bag, but keeps the books out.

Amelia: Shouting up to sam - Sam come here a minute!

Sam: Casual, shouting from upstairs- What do you want?

Amelia: Shouting - Just come here

Sam quickly runs down the stair and comes to where Amelia is sitting on the sofa.

Amelia: Worried - Sam... what is with these notes! What's the problem? Are you ok?

Sam: Timid/shy - Nothing... just give me my books!

Amelia: Worried - Sam what are these notes! Who has been writing them? More worried Tell me please Sam!

Sam: Frustrated/upset - Please Amelia...Just leave it. I don't want any hasel!

Sam runs away upstairs and slams the door.

Scene 2

Sam is at school and about to go to on break in the playground. He is walking along the corridor towards the door to the playground.

He is suddenly stopped.

An older, much more butcher boy stops Sam from walking out to the playground.

He pushes him against the wall next to the door. He is surrounded by other boys.

McKenzie: harshly - Where you going dip face!

Sam doesn’t respond. He tries to break free from McKenzie’s grip.

McKenzie:Oi... I’m talking to you!

Sam:nervously – I I I’m going to the playground…

McKenzie: Oh are you…Come with me!


Sam is pushed by Mckenzie into the boys changing rooms.

Scene 3

Meanwhile Katie, Sam's mum is at the local community centre with her friends and volunteers setting up a charity event.

She is very flustered and is panicking a lot because she wants everything to be perfect.

Katie: Can I get another table please!

Women 1: Calm down! It will be fine, everything is done!

Katie: Ok! The press will be here in 10 minutes. Ok, everything is done! 

Katie carries on getting everything prepared and waits for the press to arrive.

Scene 4

Meanwhile at school Sam is having a difficult time with the older boys in the school.

Sam is sitting in the corner of the boys changing from with all his school boys ripped and all over the floor.

McKenzie: HA! Alright there school boy, you should think before you step foot infront of me.
Adlibs of all McKenzies friends: Ha/alright school boy

McKenzie and his friends walk out laughing, Sam is jsut left

Scene 5

Katie has an interview with the press and explains what she is trying to do. She has people singing, face painting for the kids and adult beauty bits and others. She has an interview and is asked how she is doing and how she feels raising the money for the charity, then they go and she is relieved of stress.

Interviewer: So, Katie how do you feel about today?

Katie: I love everything I do! It’s such a satisfying feeling knowing I’m helping people out in the community and hopefully it could lead to bigger scale things.

Interviewer: Brilliant and what do you want achieve at the end of it all?

Katie: I just want everyone to know that ‘disabled’ children aren’t any different to ‘normal’ children. They shouldn’t be discriminated against; it’s not fair on them! They are not different.

Interviewer: Very good! It sounds like you have it all worked out and today has been a great success. Well done and good luck for the future!

Couple hours later

Scene 6

At home: Sam runs straight upstairs crying. Katie calls everyone for dinner.

Katie: Dinners ready guys!
Amelia and Sam run downstairs.

Amelia: enthusiasticly - How was school sam.i.am?
Sam: bluntly - good!
Katie: Sam! whats the matter?
Sam: defensively - Nothing mum
Amelia: Sure sammy?
Sam: yes!

They carry on eating in silence, but after 5 mins Amelia asks Sam some questions.

Amelia: So mum, how'd it go today at the community centre, i was going to come down but i was busy at work!
Katie: It went so well! I had the local newspaper come down and do an interveiw. It was so good, i think i really got somewhere. I just hope it keeps going and gets bigger!
Amelia: Well maybe on your next event, me and sammy could come along and help you out
Katie: Yes that would be good, because my next event is at your school sam!
Amelia: Even better!

Scene 7

Morning; Katie is getting ready to take sam to school. It's very hectic and rushed.

Katie: Sam wake up, you have 20 mins and we are leaving!
Sam: I'm up!
Katie: Well get dressed!
Amelia: Mum have you seen my car keys?
Katie: In the fruit bowl in the lounge!
Amelia: Ok, see you later, bye sammy, have fun at school!

The front door slams, Katie screams to Sam!

Katie: Sam!!!! Hurry up.. i need to leave in 5 minutes!

Sam walks down the stairs ready for school, Katie is rushing around pushing Sam out the door.

Katie: I've made you toast, you can eat it in the car!


22/5/14
As this is my first draft of my script, since 

Script Writing 19/12/13

Rachels Lesson

Script Writing

Todays lesson.

Script Writing 7/11/13

Rachel Lesson

Script Writing

Research someone that inspires you, or you look up to.

Dougie Poynter
-Bassist in the band McFly
- 1/4 of the band McFly
- He is dating artist Lara Carew-Jones since 2011
- Before joining McFly at the age of 15, Dougie was in a band called 'Ataiz'
- He has co-written a childrens book 'A Dinosour that Pooped Christmas'
- Winner of 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2011'
Think how you can involve your chosen celebrity into your story/script:
Dougies girlfriend is Katie Jones' sister - that's how they are related.
Katie is wanting to get the recognition of disabled children known and having Dougie, a celebrity brother will help Katie out a lot.

What are the complications of having a real/known person in your play?
I think that the complications of having a known person in my plays is just the fact, no one will read much into the story more the fact that there is a celebrity in the play, so they won't really know what the story or what the message we are trying to put across is.

The main obstacle or goal in the play? What are they trying to acheive?

Pitch
Raising awareness to people about how kids with disabilities can have the choice where they go to school: mainstream or specialised.

Katie Jones is a 34 year old women and has three children. Isabella who is 12, Jack who is 4 and Sam who is 7 and has down syndrome.
Katie grew up in chelsea, London with her two brothers and her mum and dad. She went to a Private school - Arts Educational School and got a good education. She was a very outgoing school girl and was a hard worker and she knew what she wanted to do in life.
She did a lot of performing mainly dance, so she has kept herself in good condition and is very healthy. She has had a good career, performing on stage for a good few years in various shows such as Wicked, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins etc..and ever since she retired to look after her children, she has wanted the best for her children. Making Isabella do dance and getting Jack to do as much sport as possible.

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Rachels Lesson

Script Writing

In todays lesson, we started taking about our characters for writing our own script. I thought about the Psycological, Solicalogical and the Physicalogical.

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Rachels Lesson

Script Writing

In todays lesson, we did some more filming 

Script Writing 10/10/13

Rachels Lesson

Script Writing

In todays lesson, we got a lot of filming done!

We started of doing the scenes between Courtney and Junior. When Junior just can't take being at home, so he calls Courtney to talk to him! 

We started off looking for a location suitable for Junior and Courtney to meet. 
We had a discussion about where we could do the meet up. Around the college there is a woodsy type area with a little bench, which is a very quiet area. We picked this area because it related to how Junior was feeling, alone and empty, just like the woodsy area.

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Rachels Lesson

Script Writing

This a production plan, of how we are going to do our scenes, and when and what we will need to film it all. 
This lesson was all based around getting our plan arranged for filming. We wanted to make sure everything was ok for filming. 


We planned who we would need, where would be filming and discussed locations, perfect for each scene. 


When trying to figure out where to film each scene, we had to think that we weren't allowed to leave college grounds, so we had to find places around college to film.  Which was harder than we thought, because we had great ideas, but nowhere to film them. 

As a group we also talked about who we could use as extras, because we can't just use 4 people for an episode, there needs more people! So we discussed and the other musical theatre classes, drama classes, we decided to use with their permission.