Our original film idea was to highlight how young children were partaking in things such as drinking far to young, however after much discussion we soon realised that our previous ideas in portraying his were getting blurred in the confusion of our message. Also as this child was from a working class background we felt that it was to cliche a problem that was being exacerbated by the fact that we couldn't write the slang authentically.
We decided to go for a story closer to home, one about a teenager wishing to go to university and how she deals with the stress. Our story is about Amelia, she is a 17, and an only child to her two parents. Her father is constantly at work (which is why he is never seen) and her mother is a housewife, which is why she is able to greet Amelia every morning before school. Amelia is currently studying her A-levels which she puts all her time and effort in to. It is clear that she is meant to do well because at one point in the fill the audience is able to see that she is predicted straight A's in her exams. She is determined to get these results as it is her only hope of getting into a good university.
The audience can see Amelia juggling to keep all these different balls in the air such as, her friend, her boyfriend, and her lack of job. It is this stress added on to the stress of her study's that lead to her break down, and like most teenagers in her situation she picks herself up and continues the cycle again, as there is nothing else she can do. The name Amelia was chosen as it relates to the name Millicent, which in Greek means ambitious. It is Amelia's ambition that overpowers her and leads to her breakdown.
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