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Coursework as media studies Coulsdon College

My thriller: Move away

Move away because it’s a double sense. On the one side you have the move away from home to a new house and on the other side you have the move away between Joe and Maggie.

Genre:

Thriller

Subgenre:

Romance

Drama

Topics:

Relationship

Love

Move

Changes

Loss

Location:

London (Suburb Riddlesdown) – winter/end of the autumn – could and early dark

Home – to make the story real and that the audience is able to think that all that could happened to himself in his own house

Colours:

Dark night time, cold winter

Narrative:

Non-linear

Audience:

Teenager

Actor:

Teenager (the audience should be able to identify himself with the actor)

Background:

Maggie and Joe are a couple since ages but everybody knows about their relationship. They bought are have problems with their families and their decided to move together in the left house of Maggie´s stepfather who died a few years ago. Maggie’s Mom is alcoholic since she lost her new husband and she don’t care anymore about her daughter. Joe is the sone of a rich strict baker and his mom lives under the pressure of the perfect and successful live of her husband. Joe’s dad is allows the move because he is disappointed of his son. Joe’s older brother is the opposed of Joe. He is successful, writs good marks and does everything the dad wants him to do. Joe comes more after his mother. A bit bad in his time management but very good social skills. He is a lovely boy, polite, funny and adventurous. He loves risk and he likes to break the rules. He is very alive and has a lot of friends. His brother don’t has any friend at all. He studies all the time and he says that fiends would stop him and he don’t want to waste his time for socializing.

Maggie is a beautiful girl that’s from a bad childhood. She don’t knows her father and her mom don’t know as well. She was `produced´ during of a drunked on nightstand. Her mom is young and she never gets anything right. She is one of those moms that aren’t attended at any parents evening or at her Maggie’s price awards. Maggie is very good in taking pictures and it’s her passion. 
The story of Maggies and Joes story together beganns at the 26.04.2011. Joe was kicked out of his upper class elite high school and enroled to Maggies public high school. They became fiends and fell in love. The Prom was a beautiful experiences for them both and Maggie had one evening wehre she life her childhood dream of being a prices. 

Story:

The story gone begin in the new house. They bought are tired of the work they did and happy about what they achieved. Filially away from home. New begin in the hope they life will be better together away from their old life’s. Joe opens one box and takes a bordered picture of Joe and Maggie out of the box (you see this happening through the window to show that there is somebody alas that’s staring at them the camera will move to make it look like the view of someone). Than they start talk about how they met each other and how they whole relationship developed. You see flash backs of the passed so the audience gets an idea how their life looks like and how they personalities are. The story goes back to the present were they are sitting in the new room between their moving boxes. They diced that they want to put the picture up to the wall. Maggie ask Joe where the hammer is and Joe says outside. Its dark outside and Maggie open the window door.  You can see her walk out of the house and how the door shuts magic (In the moment when the door shuts the music will be faded to signal the separate space). When she comes back the door is locked and Joe lies fighting and bloody on the cold floor. You can see Maggie hammering against the window (So you will here the music stronger again because the view is from inside). She tries to call the police but you can see that she has no service with her phone. She starts to go crazy. She cries, scrams and kicks into the mess around her. Than you can see a shadow behind her but you can’t see who the shadow is. You see how Maggie realize the shadow and the shock in her face. Than you just see her running away. She gone slip but gets up and runs on.

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The story will go on but the trailer won’t show more. This should just awake the attention of the teenaged audience.

Maggie Smith (protagonist):

16 years old

White, short, brown hair, brown eyes, not too much makeup, long hair

Poor and messy childhood with many problems, no real father, lost her stepfather a few years ago

Shy, clever, calm, afraid of being alone, friendly, tried of her old life

Joe McTyre (aragonits (?) ):

17 years old

White, Tall, blue eyes, thin, well dressed  

Good and rich childhood

Funny, lovely, polite, bad time management, adventurous, confidence, open minded

(he is the classic hot guy to catch al the girls that watchs the movies just becaus the actoes are good looking)

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