Final Synopsis

Synopsis - Final 

'Abandoned Soul'

A school hallway on a spring morning. A girl left alone in a dark, empty classroom. Sitting at a desk, covering her face. Two girls squandering outside the building see the girl through the window, and they begin to entertain themselves. The girls begin knocking on the window, once this dissipates Amy looks over and jumps in anticipation. She gathers her things and leaves the classroom with haste. The girls (not far behind), enter the building and begin looking for her. Amy takes refuge in the toilet stall and locks the door behind her, sitting up on the toilet so that the girls can't see her feet. As the two girls get closer and closer towards the toilets, all Amy can hear is footsteps getting louder and louder. The two girls, Millie and Steph, barge their way into the girls toilets. The girls now standing outside the only stall which is occupied, Amy staring at Millie and Steph's bright shoes, begins to panic. Millie and Steph wait around for Amy to reside from her stall. The bell goes, loud and intruding, and the two mean girls take notice of this and make a move for the exit. 

Amy is left distressed, and slowly unlocks the toilet stall in which she occupied. She looks around before making her way towards the exit of the girls toilets with caution. Amy now hurries to her lesson, pacing so she's not late. 

As Amy leaves the north block to head to her lesson, she spots Millie and Steph standing at the corner of the North Block where she had just left. She hesitates but proceeds to attempt to walk past them. As she reaches where Millie and Steph are, they both take notice of Amy and giggle. Amy with a bright red face looks up at them which causes the two girls to laugh even more. Amy tries to walk off but is grabbed by Millie, and an argument between the girls erupts... Once it's over Amy is left in tears, and solemnly makes her way towards the exit of the school.

At the exit, she signs out using the attendance machine and then grabs her phone out of her pocket before calling her mother... She gets no response.

Amy begins walking home and attempts to stay positive on her journey, however when she thinks she's free of all the 'haters' in school, she starts to receive anonymous text messages. They read; "NO-ONE LIKES YOU", "JUST DIE" and "YOUR GOING TO TURN OUT LIKE YOUR MOTHER"... Amy continuously shakes as she proceeds her long three mile journey towards home.

As Amy reached her front door she grabbed her key out of her bag, shaking as she tries to stab the key into the door. But, before she can open the door it opens, and Amy jumps. Christine, Amy's mother, opened the door whilst falling all over the place, it is obvious to Amy that she had been consuming drugs and drinking alcohol once again. 

Christine goes into the lounge and lies down. Amy goes into the kitchen and grabs a glass of water for her mother and gives her mother a kiss on the forehead before going upstairs to her room. She grabs her laptop from the side of her bed and proceeds to search for "Easiest drug to overdose on". Amy isn't pleased with the results and leaves it there before walking into the bathroom and looking through her mothers drawers for her stash. She find's 'Sertraline' which is used for her mothers depression. She empties the container and 4 pills fall out. Amy grabs the water left in her room from the night before, and consumes one pill at a time before moving to her room where she's left in an unconscious like state. 

Out of no where, stones are being thrown against a window in the house, Amy jumps up, hands shaking vigorously. She looks out the window and to her surprise it's Millie and Steph. Amy, not frightened by it, opens the window and tells them to "just piss off, you pricks". Amy was surprised by her own reaction, and Millie and Steph looked even more dumbstruck by her hardened approach. Amy then proceeded to walk back into her mother's room, and sat in front of the mirror to stare at herself, playing with her hair before deciding to put it up in a ponytail. She glances over to the cupboard and almost falls off her seat, she moves and opens the cupboard, and much to her surprise she finds a baseball bat. She mumbles something unintelligible before proceeding downstairs to answer the door.

Millie and Steph are waiting in both excited and nervous anticipation to see what Amy's reaction will be. Suddenly, the front door to Amy's house flies open and Amy storms out red-faced, and furious at herself and the girls for their current situation. Amy goes up to both girls, wielding her baseball bat, and proceeds to wave it around incautiously until both Millie and Steph surrender. 

All three girls shared an awkward moment; Millie and Steph were relieved to be spared from the baseball bat, and Amy realised she no longer had to worry about being bullied. In that shared silence it had become clear that Amy was a force to be reckoned with. And no-one ever bothered her again.

Synopsis Draft 1

Synopsis - Draft 1

'Abandoned Soul'

A teenagers bedroom on a grey morning. A girl waking up to a heavy beat of an alarm. *Knocks* "Amy are you awake?" Says Jess, Amy's mum. "Ellie's downstairs waiting for you". Ellie is in the kitchen twiddling with a piece of paper, waiting patiently. As Amy walks down the stairs, Ellie noticed that Amy is acting strange and her hands are shaking vigorously. 

Out the door they both proceed to walk along the footpath without saying a word. Ellie nervously walking along side Amy, obvious she wants to say something but remains silent. They gradually get closer and closer to the school, Ellie looks down at her phone the time is 9:17am, she knows they're late but proceeds to walk slowly. Amy at this point begins to act even stranger and almost faints but picks herself back up and remains calm as if nothing had happened. Ellie who is concerned lends a helping hand. Amy resists and pushes Ellie's hand away. 

They arrive at the school and continue to walk in, signing in on the touchscreen registration system. Amy struggles as her hands are shaking aggressively. After the struggle is over Amy and Ellie walk through the main entrance and had made plans to head straight to lesson, but out of no where two girls appear. Millie and Steph, Millie throws punishing words at Amy due to her hands shaking out of control. Steph just laughs. Ellie is left stunned as to what to do? Amy drifts of into a heavy like mode and pushes past Millie and Steph and goes to the nearest toilet. Ellie follows Amy to give friendly advice, she arrives outside the toilet stall in which Amy has recently occupied. Ellie try's to talk to Amy, but she doesn't talk back. Millie and Steph not far behind, arrive at the toilet and start to cause havoc once again... Steph begins to say "Amy come out, we were just playing, *giggles*". 

Amy slowly opens the door and shows her face slowly before walking past Millie and Steph once again, and abandoning her best friend Ellie in the toilet with them. Ellie shocked at the outburst begins to have a debate towards Millie and Steph. Millie and Steph walk out of the toilet still smiling, Ellie follows behind in tears, she run's up to the girls and asks why they bully Amy... 

Millie and Steph both turn to Ellie and suggest that maybe Ellie is their next target. Ellie begins shaking and goes to find her friend Amy, and to her surprise she notices Amy sitting in an empty classroom alone and vulnerable, her bag left at the desk wide open. Ellie peaks in and notices a strange prescription, painkillers. Ellie presumed that she stole them from her grandfather who had recently had a fall and broke his leg... Amy looks up to see that Ellie is rummaging through her bag, "Did you find what you were looking for?" Amy notices that Ellie has the prescription in her hand and fires out of her mouth that they help with the depression. Ellie looking just as depressed as Amy looks now is considering trying it as school and the people within it aren't worth living for. Ellie say out loud, got any spare? Amy grabs a couple out and passes them to Ellie. Ellie grabs her water from her bag and proceeds to swallow the pills one after the other. She asks for more as she can't feel anything, Amy gets three more out and passes them to Ellie. Ellie takes the pills and begins to feel strange. She rushes home and to her surprise when rummaging through her bathroom she finds 'painkillers' which were prescripted to her mother in 2016. She grabs them all and resides to her room.

Ellie, sitting on her bed begins opening the prescription and lays out the pills on the side, there are 13 in total, she takes 5 now and leaves the rest for later. Ellie 5 minutes later begins to start shaking and moving in a circular motion, as her whole body follows her actions. Randomly, she falls back into a deep sleep mode and then out of nowhere her whole body begins shaking, she's having a panic attack, a heart attack?

Ellie never awoke that night. 

Original Story Idea Draft (Not Synopsis)

Original Story Idea (Novel)

A school hallway on a spring morning. A girl left alone in a narrow corridor. Sitting cross legged, expressing tears of utter pain. Two girls squandering through the hallway take notice of the girl in the corridor and two of them let out masses of laughter as they wonder by. One mistake. Amy proceeds to wait before moving to the toilet stall, locking the door behind her. Waiting is a long game, knowing that everyone had judged her for her mothers actions was almost to much to bare, she stands impatiently waiting for the pair to disappear.

The exit was so close, yet so far; as she attempted to leave two girls appear. Millie and Steph, barge their way loudly into the girls toilet. (They had known Amy since around three years old, Millie being one of Amy's oldest friends always acted as somewhat of a safeguard for Amy. However, no-one can protect someone from what seemed to be everyone). Amy jumped in anticipation, and attempted to move away from the two girls (now enemies). Amy gently closed her stall door, knowing what was to come if she didn't.

The bell went, loud and intruding, announcing that the next lesson was underway. Amy slowly opened the door to the stall that she occupied. 'I'm safe', she thought as she gingerly made her way towards the exit.

Out of nowhere the two girls appeared, Millie and Steph. Amy jumped, and both girls giggled at her reaction. All the while Amy wondered what was to come of this particular interaction, (it had never gone well before). Anyone could see the fleecing look in Millie's face that told anyone that she felt bad, and yet she stood by Steph, knowing the consequences if she didn't. 'Why the hell are you here?', Steph announced, and, of course, the laughing ensued.

Amy, a short intelligent girl, found herself incredibly cornered and alone. She constantly thought about how life would be for anyone if she didn't exist. She had lost everyone that she had thought were her friends, and her family was not worth talking about. She left the girls toilet emotionally bruised and alone. 

Amy pads self-consciously towards the exit of the Beacon school. Pale-faced and stricken by the events of today. She slowly makes her way towards where she is suppose to be picked up by her lesbian mother. Nothing. Yet again Amy is left wondering if her mother 'Christine' has had too much alcohol and cocaine in her system to remember to pick her up from school. Amy started walking the long three miles to her cluttered, awful flat, where her mother would surely be passed out on the sofa with 'her latest'. 

On the way home Amy attempted to be positive, she had been doing well in several classes, her favourite being art. While thinking about Van Gogh, and Picasso's work on the way home she received a text message on her iPhone 5. The words 'You should just kill yourself', and 'why do you exist', had interrupted her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Before she could control it she had, had the the majority of the school (including her friends) bully her about her mum. Going back to school seemed out of the question, and yet her mother did not understand, nor did she care.

Everyday on the way home Amy had a routine, get on the bus, look outside the window, DON'T LOOK AT ANYONE. This routine had become an everyday situation, and everyday it was more difficult for Amy to resume a normal teenage situation. For instance, restless leg syndrome was a possibility every time. She constantly received remarks from both strangers and network rail workers both telling her to smile, and asking why she was shaking. Little did they know, she was hooked... but to what?

Once home Amy starts to unlock her door, heart beating so fast she doesn't want to open it. Amy asks herself "What's happening inside?"

The door opens before she can put her key in (her worst nightmare), and she receives her mother, very drunk, but yet in a good mood. She knows this will only last until her company disappears... then its up to her to entertain, and then put her to bed. She knows she is depressed. Our family is very against her way of life, and she pushed against it for so long. And yet, the world isn't ready, I know her life has been hard and I know the world isn't fair... However I also know I shouldn't be treated like this. I shouldn't have to clear up the sick on the stairs, so the dog doesn't eat it.

Once Amy had cleaned up her mother, she looked at her phone. The hate didn't end when she left school. She had 77 hate messages.

Amy took a walk around where she lived, where she had grown up and spent her life. She went through all the nooks and crannies that her and her friends had found and spent their time, they played hide and seek and kiss chase and she felt nostalgia. She felt happy. She went home.

The pills that had been previously prescribed to her mother and her late dad seemed easy. Amy kissed her mum on the forehead, in her passed out state, and she resided to her room.

Amy took 48 pills that night. She then slipped into a deep state of unconsciousness and never awoke. 

What my idea shows:

The main aim of this project was to highlight the different issues that the younger generations have to face today.

Whilst making this fictional story I found that I hit some major issues in society today. For instance, Amy (my main character), is bullied for the choices her mother has made, these choices are specified. Amy's mother's lesbianism is made an issue for Amy because I feel that anyone can do anything and be chastised by it. Furthermore, the internet for young people today can both be a good thing and a bad thing, it can cause happiness and severe sadness among young people.

Amy's issue and other videos ect. cause serious issues that affects nearly everyone in todays society. This story was created to to tell a modern day disaster story, and to bring awareness ti the issues at hand.