The dark gritty world of a young teenager gets turned around by the kindness of one man but will fate have other ideas?

1. Dave’s Story
By Ruby McCrae.

2. Synopsis
• A young teenager is thrown out on the streets left to fend for himself and his
family and friends has abandoned him. He’s now completely isolated in an
environment unknown to him. He has no money or clean clothing or food. He
goes through struggles and is beaten up, robbed, left starving and close to giving
up. A kind sole becomes his savior as he sees this broken kid and offers him a
place to stay. This begins the start of a beautiful friendship. The man who helps
the kid is quite elderly and doesn’t have family around him or friends so he knows
the feeling of isolation. Then tragedy strikes as the old man’s cancer has come
back and he ends up being extremely ill. The boy takes the life lessons given to
him by the man and uses this in his life.

3. Logline.
• The dark gritty world of a young
teenager gets turned around by the
kindness of one man but will fate
have other ideas?

4. Key themes and style.
• My key themes are crime, homelessness,
terminal illness and mental health.
• It is a gritty tale and has small glimpses of
happiness.
• The genre is a drama.

5. Unique selling point and trends.
• This doesn’t follow any current trends as the themes I have used
within this and the story I want to tell aren’t really done before. This
means it is a unique selling point because the story also has personal
elements and hopefully within the setting more people can contact
with the characters within.
• Another unique selling point is that this correlates to real world
problems with a lot of topically issues such as homelessness being
quite prevalent.

6. Target audience.
• Demographics.
• The target audience of this piece would be teenagers as the main
character is a teenager. This would give them a identification with the
character. The secondary target audience is people who can relate to
the topics within the short film.
• My message is up to be kind no matter what life throws your way. To
keep going and never giving up even when life hits rock bottom as the
only way is upwards from there.

7. Target audience
• The age range I am targeting are the ages of 15 to 20 as this is more
relevant to the teenagers based of the narrative .
• The gender relates to male and female so the marketing would go to
both genders. However, due to the harsh nature of the topics and
violence it would be more likely to be watched by males.
• The social status would be for lower class people as the more
fortunate people wouldn’t have the same connection to the narrative.

8. Psychographics
• The psychographics of the
audience would be a
mixture of resigned and
strugglers.
• The narrative shows both of
these as Dave struggles to
get security and struggles
with surviving.

9. Inspiration.
• I took some personal inspiration form events I have
experienced or nearly experienced. I took the
emotion and sadness I felt within these moments
and made this into a story. I added other elements
with the inspiration of YouTube clips I have seen.
For example, a short film where a man helps a child
with cancer. I combined these stories and added
the family aspect for the feel good moments.

10. Characters
• Mum (Megan)- Blonde, alcoholic, doesn’t disagree
with the dad.
• Motivation- Her motivation is that she is too fragile to
stand up for her child due to the anger of her husband.
Dad (Bruce)- Black hair, muscular, masculine, ill
tempered. (E.E.Bell- funhouse massacre)
Motivation- He is a heavy drinker and has had a good
life but never wanted the child he has. Therefore he
abuses and targets him.
Attackers- Mean, ill tempered, 17 to 19, no care attitude.
Motivation- Their motivation is that they have been raised
poorly and saw someone they could take it out on who
was more vulnerable than they are.

11. Dave
• Kid- college kid, Fragile, introvert, passive.
Tom Holland
Motivation- Just trying his best to get through
college life and to get a good future no matter how
many adversities he faces.

12. Franklin
• Kind man- Kind, mid 50s, passive,
caring, introvert. (Michael Caine-
Batman)
• Motivation- He was adopted when he
was younger so he knows the feeling
of being unwanted and doesn’t want
Dave to go through the same he did.