The story has a thought tracking theme to it, and Emily is the person that the story focuses on, we are placed in her life at a moment in time, but as she is speaking to the audience we get to know her past and have the ’flash backs’ of her past as well as her thoughts of the present.
Monday, 13 December 2010
The Confessions of Emily Rose, Plot
Emily Rose is a 18 year old girl who has experienced a lot of domestic violence throughout her childhood, as she has grown up with seeing her mom and dad argue and not acknowledge anything she does in her life, she reached the age of 17 and wanting to leave, not caring what can happen she leaves home and ends up moving from different flats where she has used her savings to keep a roof over her head, the story will start with her with no money and just been kicked out of her rented room, after leaving ruff for a year she has meet a lot of people, one included Jo who she has hung around with for a while, unfortunately Jo has come dependent on drugs and has wrapped Emily into it, now both girls are users of drugs. Not knowing what she is doing she meets a supplier called Daniel, he is nice to her but as she isn’t herself at the moment she gets wrapped in.
Radio 4's Christmas Appeal
Radio 4 have set up an appeal to help homeless and vulnerable people all over the UK.
This shows that the issue of homeless people is being raised a lot more and needs more awareness to the public, this benefits me because its the right market to place a radio play about a homeless and vulnerable person in because more radio stations especially radio 4 will be interested in my radio play.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wh1dk
Also because of the appeal more people will be intrigued into the situation and will want to understand more about peoples lives and how and why they get into theses situations, because my radio play focuses on one person and their live and is also a drama then this can appeal much more to a larger target audience.
The charity that is involved with radio 4's appeal is st martin in the fields, they have set up a charity to help homeless people all over the UK. On their website there is pictures and stories about homeless people, by having this upon the website makes more people aware of peoples situations and also its makes it more global.
http://www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk/
>stories
http://www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk/who-we-help/success-stories.htm
>pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/homelessphotography/
This shows that the issue of homeless people is being raised a lot more and needs more awareness to the public, this benefits me because its the right market to place a radio play about a homeless and vulnerable person in because more radio stations especially radio 4 will be interested in my radio play.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wh1dk
Also because of the appeal more people will be intrigued into the situation and will want to understand more about peoples lives and how and why they get into theses situations, because my radio play focuses on one person and their live and is also a drama then this can appeal much more to a larger target audience.
The charity that is involved with radio 4's appeal is st martin in the fields, they have set up a charity to help homeless people all over the UK. On their website there is pictures and stories about homeless people, by having this upon the website makes more people aware of peoples situations and also its makes it more global.
http://www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk/
>stories
http://www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk/who-we-help/success-stories.htm
>pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/homelessphotography/
Monday, 6 December 2010
Research On Idea
A charity that helps children.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/
This is a link to the charity that helps children who live in poverty, whilst looking on this website I could see that a lot of children can be effect by their family's and that there is some help for these children.
Also whist researching my chosen idea I come up with a name for this text:
'The Confessions of Emily Rose"
I thought of this name because the main character Emily Rose is telling her life to the audience of what happened and why she is in the situation she is but also what is going on know in her life.
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/
This is a link to the charity that helps children who live in poverty, whilst looking on this website I could see that a lot of children can be effect by their family's and that there is some help for these children.
Also whist researching my chosen idea I come up with a name for this text:
'The Confessions of Emily Rose"
I thought of this name because the main character Emily Rose is telling her life to the audience of what happened and why she is in the situation she is but also what is going on know in her life.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Chosen Idea
The Homeless Society.
I have chosen this idea because it is something I can adapt upon. I have done more research towards this idea, I decided to look at some documentaries so I could understand how homeless people actually lived and how there lives are, whilst watching them I understood a lot more and many habits that can occur when living on the streets.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1804843813911660722#
Also on Youtube many short films and documentaries been made about peoples opinions on the homeless society this also shows that people dont understand how people get into the situation they are in and how it has effected them. This is why I feel that this idea can work as a play because it makes it aware to the people that are watching and its also an issue that isn't brought up alot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2U4BX489I
Also looking at news stories also gives me facts about the statistics and more information on the whole situation.
I have decided to focus on 'teenagers being homeless' because a lot of things can happen in their lives and can make them rebel and end up walking out, by focusing on this big issue it may make teenagers realise what sort of situation that can end up in. Also it can relate to the target audience of young adults and its not a usual text you would listen to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6134920.stm
A short film with quotes and statistics on homeless teenagers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_121nL8ek
I have chosen this idea because it is something I can adapt upon. I have done more research towards this idea, I decided to look at some documentaries so I could understand how homeless people actually lived and how there lives are, whilst watching them I understood a lot more and many habits that can occur when living on the streets.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1804843813911660722#
Also on Youtube many short films and documentaries been made about peoples opinions on the homeless society this also shows that people dont understand how people get into the situation they are in and how it has effected them. This is why I feel that this idea can work as a play because it makes it aware to the people that are watching and its also an issue that isn't brought up alot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2U4BX489I
Also looking at news stories also gives me facts about the statistics and more information on the whole situation.
I have decided to focus on 'teenagers being homeless' because a lot of things can happen in their lives and can make them rebel and end up walking out, by focusing on this big issue it may make teenagers realise what sort of situation that can end up in. Also it can relate to the target audience of young adults and its not a usual text you would listen to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6134920.stm
A short film with quotes and statistics on homeless teenagers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_121nL8ek
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Radio Play Ideas
Idea 1
The homeless society
Reasearch :
I went on google to search the lives about homeless people, i came across a website that had peoples stories on how they manage to become homeless and there live since.
http://www.homeless.org.au/people/rebecca.htm this link shows all types of peoples stories which has helped me gain more knowledge on this society and how you can eaisly lead into this situation.
Idea 2
Letters
I liked the idea of a romance radio text and to make it based around letters this is because i have watched many films that are asociated with this theme and i feel that it can make a story have more emotion to it.
Reaseach:
I researched a few films that are based around a letter theme, this includes Dear John, The Notebook and Letters to Juliet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989757/ this link is to a website that provides a summary of each of these films, by using this link it has enabled me to look at all the different plots and have several ideas on what I would like to base my idea on.
I also come up with the idea of lose within the letter theme, through this I wanted to base it through a terrorist attack. I then research the London bombings and I didnt want to use an obvious idea and use the 9/11 attacks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4741363.stm this link from the BBC website also enabled me to look at the storys of the people who died in this terrorist attack which meant that I could get more of an insight on peoples lives, which can allow to to adapt this idea more. I also looked at the attack itself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings within this link there is some information that I didnt need and I didnt look at it all however what I did need helped me to gain much more knowledge on the incident.
Idea 3
Physiological illness : Bipolar disorder
This idea came from the storyline in Eastenders when Stacy Slater inherited her mothers disorder of bipolar from this I researched the disorder itself to understand it more and how it can affect a person. http://bipolar.about.com/cs/bpbasics/a/0210_whatisbp.htm this helped me adapt my idea much more and think of more ideas to base this around.
Idea 4
The suicide pact
This idea came from a BBC news artical on thier website, I read the story about the woman that used the internet as a source to find someone else to commit sucide with her.
I thought that using a diary theme and using the genre of a psychological thriller could make thr story more personal which make the audience understand it more, but more gipping with the genre it will fall under. With the diary theme I just want the women talking whih means it will be in first person.
The structure will be fluent and will go from start middle end, but the end will be the new report of thier death so the audience can understand what has happend and that it is real.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-11388669
The homeless society
Reasearch :
I went on google to search the lives about homeless people, i came across a website that had peoples stories on how they manage to become homeless and there live since.
http://www.homeless.org.au/people/rebecca.htm this link shows all types of peoples stories which has helped me gain more knowledge on this society and how you can eaisly lead into this situation.
Idea 2
Letters
I liked the idea of a romance radio text and to make it based around letters this is because i have watched many films that are asociated with this theme and i feel that it can make a story have more emotion to it.
Reaseach:
I researched a few films that are based around a letter theme, this includes Dear John, The Notebook and Letters to Juliet.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989757/ this link is to a website that provides a summary of each of these films, by using this link it has enabled me to look at all the different plots and have several ideas on what I would like to base my idea on.
I also come up with the idea of lose within the letter theme, through this I wanted to base it through a terrorist attack. I then research the London bombings and I didnt want to use an obvious idea and use the 9/11 attacks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4741363.stm this link from the BBC website also enabled me to look at the storys of the people who died in this terrorist attack which meant that I could get more of an insight on peoples lives, which can allow to to adapt this idea more. I also looked at the attack itself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings within this link there is some information that I didnt need and I didnt look at it all however what I did need helped me to gain much more knowledge on the incident.
Idea 3
Physiological illness : Bipolar disorder
This idea came from the storyline in Eastenders when Stacy Slater inherited her mothers disorder of bipolar from this I researched the disorder itself to understand it more and how it can affect a person. http://bipolar.about.com/cs/bpbasics/a/0210_whatisbp.htm this helped me adapt my idea much more and think of more ideas to base this around.
Idea 4
The suicide pact
This idea came from a BBC news artical on thier website, I read the story about the woman that used the internet as a source to find someone else to commit sucide with her.
I thought that using a diary theme and using the genre of a psychological thriller could make thr story more personal which make the audience understand it more, but more gipping with the genre it will fall under. With the diary theme I just want the women talking whih means it will be in first person.
The structure will be fluent and will go from start middle end, but the end will be the new report of thier death so the audience can understand what has happend and that it is real.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-11388669
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