Film Synopsis - Draft 4

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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, Mr Laurence (25-30) is sat at a desk. His eyes are fixed upon a book, which he is marking. 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, Jessica (16) 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 reaches for 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 places the phone back into her school bag, leaving it sitting on the top of some books. Michael stares at the bag, then his eyes shift between Jessica, the boys and Mr Laurence. Michael quickly flicks his pen on to the floor directing its fall near to Jessica’s bag. Jessica is increasingly getting more distracted by the group of boys and she does not notice the pen drop near her bag.

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, Mr Laurence stands up and walks towards Jessica and the boys, who have now fallen silent. Mr Laurence asks Jessica if anything is wrong, but she fails to comment. Mr Laurence glances at Michael’s book before returning to his seat. Michael sighs 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. Mr Laurence calls over to Michael and asks him to stay behind as she 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. He asks Mr Laurence if the conversation can wait until the next lesson and he insists that it will only take a few minutes. Michael glances over at Jessica while she 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 Mr Laurence and notices Jessica. Mr Laurence 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.

Jessica says that she has that ring tone and Michael looks down. Mr Laurence asks if Michael has taken the phone. Michael slowly takes the phone out of his pocket and hands it over to Jessica, who snatches it. Mr Laurence gently asks why he took the phone and Michael just looks up and says sorry.

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