Media film ideas - unit 2

1. MEDIA IDEAS
BRIDGING WORK

2. IDEA 1
• Start off with radio presenter talking about the day and introduce opening song.
• Opening song: theme from ‘Are you gonna be my girl’. - Jet
• Starts immediately with presenter.
• ‘Good morning and welcome to another day at RNG Radio 6, you’re listening to Christopher McCallister
and thank you for joining me on this glorious day.’
• From black out screen with credits, when they songs goes ‘GO!’ We are in the turret room and Abbie
opens her eyes immediately.
• End with ‘Jet’ outro and radio presenter naming song and ending the radio programme
• :’ So that wraps up the show, thank you for joining me, we hope you’ve had a lovely day and see you
tomorrow, on RNG Radio 6’.

3. ABBIE PROFILE
• Age 19
• Interests: not singing, not musical theatre, JET is favourite band.
• Hair: curly.
• Style: very dull and basic
• Make up: natural
• Work: works as a door-to-door saleswoman selling pens

4. SCENE 1 TIME: 1MIN 30
• Abbie ( main character )
• Opens eyes (0.20)
• Gets out of bed (0.22)
• Put on clothes montage, choosing what to wear. (0.30)
• Make up montage, eyeliner and mascara clip. (0.42)
• Walks down stairs form turret into kitchen with headphones in as if listening to AYGBMG. (0.51)
• She makes her breakfast and sits eating it on the kitchen side, facing out of the windows. (1.00)
• Roommate enters and Abbie takes out headphone and songs ends. – downs out. (1.19)

5. SCENE 1 TIME: 1MIN 45.
• Roommate conversation.
• Script:
• Elfie: Hello
• Abbie: (takes out headphone)
Morning
• Elfie: (Getting some breakfast)
What are you doing today?
• Abbie: Selling pens (pause) Elfie I
hate it, I’m going to quit.
• Elfie: Ahh Abbie no don’t quit, what
about…. (looks at camera) mates
rates.
• Abbie: (looks at camera) Elfie, you
have about 60 and you never use
them.
• Elfie: I do not have 60.
• Abbie: (opens draw and takes out a
handful of pens.) I need to get a
proper, well-paid job. And so should
you.
• Elfie: ( in shock) I have a real job,
Abbie.
• Abbie: Freelance piano playing to
old people, doesn’t count.
• Elfie: (long pause) It’s very
emotionally rewarding
(sentimentally)
• Abbie: how is playing the
same song over and over
again emotionally rewarding,
at least learn to play
something different.
• Elfie: Film music composition
is lost and forgotten art, ….. If
I don’t play it no one will.
• Abbie: It’s the theme to
Jurassic park…..everyone
knows it. It’s only got 5 notes
in it.
• Elfie: More than that actually.
(Goes to sing it and count
notes on fingers)
• Abbie: (looks at camera) Elfie,
I’m not doing this again. (not
angrily, gets up and leaves)
• Elfie: (Goes to do it)
• Abbie: (from behind the
door) Stop it.
• Elfie: (stops)

6. SCENE 3 TIME: 1MIN 30
• Drives up to compound.
• We see her knock at Lavender Cottage door to try sell pens.
• Abbie: Hi there, can I interest you in some pens, they’re….
• She gets declined
• The camera records her exiting the gate and entering next doors gate, exiting that one and going into
the last gate and exiting it. Montage.
• She goes back to her cars and has a meltdown. She notices that there’s something caught in her
windscreen. It a flyer about an open audition at the local theatre. Tomorrow.
• She disregards it and throws it in her bag. (looks at camera)
• She goes home.

7. SCENE 4 TIME: 45 SECS
• At home. It’s the evening.
• She empties her bag out and looks at the flyer again.
• She looks at it and drags out a old box full of trophies and certificates for performing. (looks at camera)

8. SCENE 5 TIME: 1MIN 30
• Song: Walk this way - Aerosmith
• Sat in her car, contemplating whether or not to go to the audition. Down kingsfield.
• She gets out of car (0.30)
• The camera gets her feet walking to the audition. (0.35)
• Enters room (0.47)
• The audition is in the dance studio. We have 3 judges.
• The song is a montage of the audition.
• Abbie starts singing at (0.57). Miming.

9. SCENE 6 TIME: 20 SECS
• Abbie enters her home. Still in montage with song.
• She goes into kitchen and turns off radio, which cuts off the song.
• The scene is blackout.
• (1 WEEK LATER)

10. SCENE 7 TIME: 1MIN
• Elfie goes to collect the post from outside the door.
• She puts it on the kitchen table and leaves with her own post.
• Abbie enters and sees the letter.
• She opens it and its just a bill.
• Elfie enters again.
• Elfie: Sorry I took that. (hands over another letter)
• Abbie: (opens letter, she got the part, looks at camera)
• She gets out her phone and email her manager to say that she quits.

11. SCENE 8 2 MIN
• She goes back to the compound houses and gives them a bag of free pens and puts them on the
doorstep. ( looks at camera)
• She no longer needs them.
• Ends with Abbie getting into car and turning up the radio.
• Its break my stride (2.15)
• At (2.30) presenter outros the radio show.

12. IDEA 2 (5)
• Girl accidently dies her hair blue. Veronica is dying it for her to give her subtle highlights, using foil.
• We see the friend washing it out and Heather lifts her head up to and look in the mirror, and her face drops. Veronica runs out
in panic and laughter.
• Why? It’s the latest trend but hers goes terribly wrong.
• Girl: 18 years old and very good student in terms of grade and no detentions, but teachers and classmates don’t give her any
attention. Called: Heather. Friend: Veronica. Shy but not at home or around V.
• However this misfortune is in her favour, as before no one ever noticed her, now they do and start recognising her. She has
power and now, well-known amongst the school.
• She gets mixed up with the wrong crowd, things turn bad and she looses her one friend, Veronica. Heather isn’t known as
Heather, her ‘cool, new mates’ changed it to Rosie.
• What turns bad? Heather is noticed by the ‘popular kids’ and She leaves out Veronica who then goes and makes new friends.
Heather doesn’t pay much attention to that as she is too bust using her ‘popularity’ to do bad things. Such as bully others or
get out of work and gets herself in a lot of detentions with calls home too, so disappointed parents.

13. PART 2
• It isn’t until, her ‘cool friends’ tell Heather to spread a rumour about Veronica. Heathers goes and tells Veronica what she’s
done and V is beside herself. Then Heather realises what she’s done. Her ‘cool mates’ overhear the conversation and have a
ago at Heather and embarrass her in front of everyone.
• Now she has no friends, terrible grades and a disappointed family.
• Now she starts using her power and status to do good for her classmates, school and leaves a legacy.
• She can inspire students all over the school because she is the person everyone now looks up to. She is the lead in the school
show and decides that on the last night, in front of all her peers, so-called friends, and close family to make a change.
• She dyes her hair back to normal that next day and is no longer recognised. A few people still know that its her, Veronica and
her friends make a group of friends including Heather. They like her for what she’s done to improve the school.
• Although people don’t give her the credit now her hair is back to normal, her mates know and the legacy still goes on. Making
her school life bearable.
• Her improvement include: Teachers being more enthusiastic about the subject. Better resources. A change in the school ethos
and explain that you don’t have to be cool and popular to succeed in life. As it’s only now she realised she was already
succeeding in life, great grades, no disciplinary record and extremely proud parents.

14. CAST LIST
• Heather/Rosie Marren: 18 year old girl, shy, very smart and longs to be popular and cool, doesn’t live in the lap of luxury.
• Veronica Bennett 18 year old girl, loves music and is one of 3 children, doesn’t care for being cool, likes living in her current
world with Heather and spending quality time with Heather.
• Girls:
• Alissa Chambers: 18 year old girl, already popular very wealthy, doesn’t care about grades or attendance.
• Safiya Hall: 18 year old girl, likes sport and horses, been friends with Alissa for years, both girls equality as horrible.
• Parent:
• Dad, single dad, mum doesn’t live with them. Has two children, one Heather the other is John, he is in his last year at Oxford
studying history on a scholarships.
• Other:
• School mates (maybe)
• Teacher
• Audience (maybe)

15. SCENES
• 1, DYING HAIR (1 MIN)
• 2, NEXT DAY, IN SCHOOL WITH BLUE HAIR, EVERYONE NOTICES HER, GET STOPPED BY POPULAR GIRLS AND THEY ASK TO HANG
OUT WITH THEM (2/3 MINS)
• 3, NEXT DAY, WALKS INTO SCHOOL AND HANGS OUT WITH THEM AND LEAVE VERONICA OUT//MONTAGE// (1 MIN)
• 4, SHE GETS HELD BEHIND TO TALK TO THE TEACHER ABOUT HER POOR GRADES, GETS GIVEN DETENTION THERE. GIRLS ARE
WAITING OUTSIDE THE DOOR AND ARE PLEASED SHE FAILED BECAUSE IT MAES HER COOL. THEY WALK AWAY. (2/3 MINS
MINS)
• 5, AT HOME, DAD RECEIVED A PHONE FROM SCHOOL SAYING THAT HEATHER IS FAILING SCHOOL. THEY HAVE AN ARGUMENT.
(2 MINS)
• 6, NEXT DAY, GIRLS ASK HEATHER TO SPREAD RUMOUR, V AND H SPILT. (3 MINS)
• 7, STANDS UP EITHER IN AUDITORIUM OR COMMON ROOM AND GIVES ANNONCEMENT. (3 MINS)
• 8, NEXT TERM, SHES WITH V AND HER ALL FRIENDS (WITH NORMAL HAIR), THEY’RE WALKING INTO CLASS, SHE SITS DOWN
AND GETS GIVEN BACK HER PAPER WITH AN ‘A’ ON IT. HER MATES TAKE THE MICK BECAUSE OF HER GOOD GRADE. (1 MIN)