Film Synopsis - Draft 3

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A group of 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 (25-30) is sat at a desk. His eyes are firmly fixed upon a student’s text book while he marks it. Michael (16) 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 and scans the classroom. He notices an extremely attractive girl sat in the centre of the classroom and she is desperately trying to read her maths book amongst rude remarks and sexual suggestions that are quietly thrown at her by a group of jack the lad boys; who are sat around her.

Jessica (16) reaches to her bag behind her chair and takes out a pink mobile phone so that she can text and ignore the boys 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 then his eyes begin to shift between the girl, the boys and the teacher. 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 the girl who is now becoming stressed.

Michael cleverly positions his body to block the view of others as he retrieves his pen and at the same time takes Jessica’s mobile phone from her bag and immediately puts it 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. The teacher glances at Michael’s book before returning to his seat. Michael has a sigh of relief and discretely takes the phone out of his pocket and navigates through the phonebook to copy down the phone number. The school bell rings to indicate that the lesson has finished. The teacher calls over to Michael and asks him to stay behind as he needs to have a quick word with him about his lack of work in lessons. Michael hides the phone back into his trouser pocket and closes his book, while Jessica quickly packs her books into her bag and leaves the classroom.

Jessica opens her school locker door and starts to unpack some books. She notices that the phone is missing and panics. She checks her pockets, the floor and the full content of her bag. Jessica rushes back to the classroom and searches directly around the area at which she was sitting. Michael is still talking to the teacher and notices Jessica. The teacher finalises the conversation with Michael and asks Jessica what is wrong. Jessica replies with her dilemma and assumes that the phone has been stolen. After a few moments silence, the phone rings, from Michael’s pocket.

Michael is sitting in an office and he quietly informs a senior member of staff (35-40) 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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