Synopsis 4

Our short film will focus around one boys teenage life as he progresses through secondary school. However, the teenagers school and personal life begin to suffer as he grows older and begins to feel the pressure that school imposes on a young person. The pressure mounts up in his mind until his life hits a downward spiral. In the early years of the boys school life (year 7 & 8) the pressure of school is almost nonexistent; he is portrayed as seeing school as just a big playground for hanging out with his friends; joking and playing around. School work is the least of his worries. As a result of this, he doesnt take school too seriously which results in him sweeping homework, detentions and school work to the back of his mind; applying little effort to them. As the boy progresses through high school (year 9,10) the pressures of school he previously swept aside as a young boy begin to have more of an effect on him. The audience will no longer see the teenage boy having fun with his friends enjoying life; theyll begin to notice the toll the increased pressure of school and introduction of GCSEs is having on him; His eyes become tired, his smile becomes laboured and his expression, forced. We see him beginning to miss lessons and falling into the wrong crowd and loosing old friends. This downturn in his life carries on over to the penultimate year of school. Year 11 was very much the same for the boy; missing lessons, bad attendance, more detentions and an ever further fall in his drive for life. Year 11 is very much the beginning of the end for the young boy. Although he realises he needs school it has very much gone out of the window for him. The wrong crowd he fell into during the years 9 and 10 lead him to abusing drugs and alcohol as a way of coping with the pressures of school in year 11. The last sequence of events the audience will see in our short film will feature in a party the young boy attends. Here the boy is seen to be using drugs and alcohol; they will see a real down turn in his immediate health as a result of this and the boys life comes to a tragic end on a tatty old sofa at party.