1. Assignment 12: Individual
Planning
To complete individual planning before
deciding on a group plan.
Drama
Chelsea Fashole-Luke

2. Inspirational films
Girl, Interrupted:
An 18 year old girl checks herself into
a mental hospital. Set in the 60;s.
The Tracey Fragments:
15 year old girl runs away
after being the cause of the
disappearance of her younger
brother.

3. Idea exploration

4. Chosen Idea Timeline
Flashback scene
of her elsewhere
Flash forward to Close up shot of main
Disorientated in the park,
them running character staring at lit
flashback of A voice snaps her calmly setting fire
around busy flame. Black out.
walking down a out of it – teenage to a flower.
streets, smoking
busy street, late girl sitting beside and drinking,
afternoon. her, asking for a causing trouble
lighter.
Sits on park bench, pulls out
journal and begins to write about Flashes to another
her thoughts and feelings of Girl gives back scene – Dawn is lying
Main character depression. Dawn pulls out her lighter and offers on a park bench,
‘Dawn’ walking ‘signature’ pink Dawn a cigarette – hazily looking up at
towards a park lighter. she takes it, even the sky which goes in
bench. though she’s never and out of focus.
smoked. Monologue.

5. Whole Film
• Teenage girl lives with her grandma – parents died when she was a baby
• She has borderline personality disorder (we don’t find this out until later)
• Every time she wants to self harm, she sets fire to something ‘pretty’ or ‘happy’
(flowers, balloons, pretty pictures etc.)
• Befriends a rebellious teenage girl who also has her own set of problems (we don’t
find out what until much later, if at all)
• She feels suffocated by her everyday life and decides to run away with friend
• Participates in destructive behaviour, smoking, drinking, drug taking etc.
• Feels she is becoming crazier being away from familiarity
• Friend convinces her to go back to her grandma – her only family
• Returns home by the end of the film after what felt like over a week in her mind,
to find she had only been gone a day.
• Ends how it began – writing in her journal on a park bench.

6. Style Of Opening Sequence
• Start of film
- Gives the audience an initial idea of the film, drawing them in,
without giving too much of the overall story away.
- Allows enigmas to be presented.

7. Narrative Structure & Theory
• Non-linear
- Moves back and forth through time between the present and the future.
- Use of flash forwards – anachronic (Cameron).
• Levi Strauss:
- Binary opposites (mental health/mental illness)
• Barthes codes:
- Enigma Code (why does the main character do specific things)
- Semantic Code (connotative meanings of objects – e.g. the lighter, and places –
constantly outside)
- Symbolic Code (opposition and antithesis – opposition within herself, the need to
get better and the want to end it all)

8. Characters
Name Dawn
Role Main character
Actor Chelsea
Representation Fearful, distant, unattached from people,
doesn’t allow herself to be close to others,
lonely, unsocial, has BPD
Body language/facial expression Uninterested, timid
Tone/language Depressed,
Costume/props Journal
Pink lighter
Black boots
Black dress
or
Black skirt and jumper/top

9. Characters
Name Carrie
Role Supporting character
Actor Laura or Rosie
Representation Rebellious, fearless, smart, social, natural leader,
non-conforming
Body language/facial expression Confident
Tone/language Confident, street smart, big personality
Costume/props Cigarettes
Black jeans
Silver studs and chains on clothing
Black t-shirt/top/jumper
Black boots

10. Setting
Exterior scenes Interior scenes
Park n/a
Busy streets

11. Conventions
Conventions in Drama Examples from films
Use/develop/challenge?
• Real life, relatable issues ‘The Family Stone’
- Death
- Family issues
- Self issues
- Divorce
• Shows development of characters
• Family/friendship/self/inner conflict
• Happy endings
• Sense of realism
Characters: ‘The Sisterhood of The
Medium to large family Traveling Pants’
Small group of friends
Class of students
Setting: ‘17 Again’
Equilibrium:
- High school
- Family home
Disequilibrium:
- Friends fall out
- Bullies
- Family breakup

12. Conventions you apply
Convention Use/develop/challenge Examples from similar films
Issues with ones self Use – main characters has a mental ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’
illness. - depression
Is constantly in conflict with herself.
Death Use – main characters parents and ‘Lemony Snickets A Series Of
granddad are dead (not shown in Unfortunate Events’
opening sequence).
Conflict with friends Use – has trouble trying to make and ‘Mean Girls’
maintain relationships.
Attempts to resists potential
friendships and push people away.
Sense of realism Develop – main character is aware of ‘The Lovely Bones’ –
the world around her but has a She watches her family
tendency to see things in her mind from an unknown
she perceives to be real. otherworldly place
- Happy ending Develop – it is unclear whether the ‘The Pursuit Of Happiness’ –
ending is happy or not for the main Happy ending
character.

13. Titles/credits
Opening
Sequence
Bradley hand ITC
Opening
Sequence
Cooper black

14. Audience
Audience elements Explanation
Age 15+ Some elements may not be
suitable for younger viewers
(smoking, alcohol and drug use).
Gender Female Main character and supporting
character are both female.
Audience able to identify with
them.
Ethnicity Western culture/society Problems/issues more common
and recognised in western
culture.
Interests/hobbies Drugs, alcohol, mental health These elements are seen within
the sequence – audience can
relate.
Social class Lower class Main characters are of lower
class.

15. By Chelsea Fashole-Luke
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