Film Synopsis - Draft 2

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A group of six form students, dressed in fashionable clothes are sitting in a classroom, lined with maths posters and trigonometry homework. They are scribbling in their notebooks and having individual, discrete conversations. At the front of the room a male teacher is sat at a desk. His eyes are firmly fixed upon a student’s text book while she marks it. A boy named Michael sits alone at the back of the class and instead of completing his set work; he has drawn childlike, amateurish cartoons in his book. Michael sighs and looks up from his book to scan the room for a source of entertainment, He notices an extremely attractive girl, sat in the centre of the classroom. The girl’s name is Jessica and she is desperately trying to read her maths book amongst rude remarks and sexual suggestions that are thrown at her by a group of jack the lad boys; who are sat around her.

Jessica reaches to her bag behind her chair and takes out a pink mobile phone so that she can text and ignore the boys that are around her. Michael stares at everything she does from handling the phone to flicking her hair about and he continues to follow her actions as she replaces the phone back into her school bag, leaving it sitting on the top of some books. Michael continues to stare at the bag and his eyes then begin to shift between the girl, the boys and the teacher. Soon the boys begin to physically torment Jessica, by poking her and she engages into an argument with them. The temptation of seeing her mobile phone just sitting there is too much for Michael and with no hesitation he flicks his pen on to the floor directing its fall near to Jessica’s bag. The sound of the pen hitting the floor fails to alert Jessica who is now becoming stressed at the idle taunts that are directed towards her.
Michael cleverly positions his body to block the view of others, as he retrieves his pen and at the same time he takes Jessica’s mobile phone from the top of her bag. He then immediately places the mobile into his trouser pocket. As Michael returns to his seat, the teacher stands up and walks towards Jessica and the boys, who have now fallen silent. The teacher asks Jessica if anything is wrong, but she fails to comment on the event that has just occurred. Michael has a sigh of relief and discretely takes the phone out of his pocket and navigates through the phonebook.

The school bell rings and Jessica quickly packs her books into her bag and gets up to leave. The teacher calls over to Michael and asks him to stay behind, to speak to him. Michael quickly hides the phone back into his pocket and closes his book. The teacher comes over to Michael to discuss his lack of work in lessons. Michael begins to get slightly agitated as he watches Jessica exit the room.

Jessica arrives at a different classroom and sits down.
Michael is desperately trying to close the conversation with the teacher.

Jessica takes some books out of her bag and notices that her mobile phone is no longer there. Desperately, she then starts taking the rest of her books out of her bag in an attempt to find her mobile phone. Teacher (2) notices the girl frantically going through her bag and asks her if anything is wrong. The girl replies that her mobile phone has gone and she definitely had it in the previous lesson and to make matters worse the girl explains that her mum was having a serious operation that afternoon and she was waiting for her dad to text her.

The teacher asks the class to help Jessica to look for the phone when the lesson has finished. The students in the class look at one another in silence. Meanwhile, Michael finally leaves his lesson and stands outside of Jessica’s new classroom for a few seconds, staring at the phone. Michael starts to panic and realise he is in serious trouble, so he slowly opens the door and enters the classroom. The teacher is now at the front of the class writing some notes on a white board. Michael slowly approaches Jessica who is now looking through her pencil case.

To quietly seek her attention he gently taps her on the shoulder and hands her, her mobile phone. Jessica looks at him bewildered and he quietly declares he took the phone and….. Michael does not finish his statement as he is alarmed at how harshly she stares at him. Everyone in the class is completely silent as all eyes, are now firmly fixed onto Michael, including the teacher. Jessica then looks down at her phone and sharply insists that Michael explains why he had taken her phone. The teacher comes over to where Michael is standing and tells him to report to his student manager immediately and she will be telephoning the manager now to inform him that he is on his way.

Once inside the office, he is interrogated. Michael shyly and nervously informs him that he just really liked the girl and felt she was unapproachable, so he wanted to take the phone for a brief amount of time to look up her phone number during the lesson and then place it back in her bag. Subsequently he did not want to be humiliated by the other boys if he approached her personally.

The senior member of staff then turns to face the window to quietly establish a suitable punishment for Michael, and at the same time he displays a sympathetic facial expression.

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