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INITIAL IDEA 1

Mental Illness-

Someone is trying to deal with everyday life whilst having an illness. It is effecting them. Something happens and she has to confess.

INITIAL IDEA 2

Child looking after somebody with an illness –

Mum/sister gets diagnosed with Cancer but it turns out that the son is the only available person to look after her. However, as time goes on she is making him extremely depressed and the day she dies he is so upset because she is his life he goes and commits suicide.

INITIAL IDEA 3

Car crash-

A teenager is driving drunk down a country lane and a kid steps out into the road and she hits him. She wakes up (so it looks like it was all a dream) and goes to visit the grave of the little boy.

INITIAL IDEA 4

Boy deals with his father’s death-

Little boy dealing with grief after his father has just died. He messes about at school and home. He just wants to go back to when his life was happy.

DEVELOPED IDEA (INITIAL IDEA 4)

Themes: Depression, mental illness*Overall, about a little boy dealing with grief after his father has just died.*The alarm wakes the boy up at 7.30 AM; it’s just a normal day. He stumbles out of bed and goes about his daily routine, wash, breakfast, getting dressed etc. On his way to school he meets his friends and starts to mess around, just like a typical teenager. Whilst walking to school he cannot concentrate on his friends conversation and starts to have flash backs of his early child hood, this causes him to become anxious and angry. Once home his mum asks him if his okay but yet again he storms up to his room. The boy pulls out a letter from his box and starts furiously writing, his upset, confused and isolated. The next time we see the boy he is sobbing his heart out reading the letter to a grave and his mum comes and puts her arm around his shoulder.