Initial Ideas

Our genre for our first idea was to focus on Action. A fifteen year old boy, walking home from school with his elder sister, sees a gang of three who are looking for trouble. Stevie is petrified as they approach them and demand their valuable possessions. His sister Jordan refuses and threatens them to go away before she does something that she’ll regret.  The gang hysterically laugh at her and lightly push her saying ‘what are you going to do little girl’. The girl firmly grabs the leader of the gang’s shoulders and kicks him with her knee.  The gang are shocked at her fighting skills and try to defend their leader by kicking her back. She defends herself and beats them up all. The gang are all left injured, while they walk home.

We decided not to use this idea as we thought that in the end it sounded impractical by the way a seventeen year old girl beats up all the boys in the gang. It challenged codes and conventions to an extreme extent; we did not achieve to create a typical gang view from the way they are usually portrayed in an Action movie.

Our genre for our second idea focuses on thriller. It touches upon real life situations where the main protagonist Skills is schizophrenic and lives in a care home and faces serious harassment from the staff.  He is an isolated figure, who is left traumatized and therefore goes through difficult obstacles in his life, such as facing discrimination towards his culture and skin colour.

We decided not to use this idea because we are familiar with this particular genre due to our AS portfolio, where we created a similar storyline where our main protagonist was also schizophrenic, therefore we wanted to explore new ideas and try something new.

For our final idea we decided to do a comedy, as we thought of it to be an exciting challenge. Our main protagonist is an eighteen year old boy who struggles with women issues. He is considered not to be very sociable with others in college. He is very successful in his second year at A-levels, where he managed to achieve four A’s at his first year.  Throughout his adolescent years, he has been madly in love with Lillie but has not been able to admit his feeling to her. The plot begins with him taking Sarah (which he babysits frequently) to her football training and notices Lille from a distance. He becomes nervous and she notices the change in his behaviour and shatter his dreams by reminding him that ‘it’s never going to happen’. She later feels sorry for him and gives him advice on how to approach a lady. She begins to  demonstrate the ‘3 simple rules’ which every man should be familiar with.  

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