Personal Story Idea

Documentary/Drama

A day in the life of a teenager named Emily.

Title: Emily

Emily is a typical teen living in London with her dad and two older brothers. Her mum passed away five years earlier and ever since then she has never had strong connections with the men in her life. As a hard working college student in her last few months of studying for her A levels, Emily is the type of student who is able to zone out on life’s problems to focus solely on work. Although her close friends don’t realise that one of these days maybe work won’t be enough for her…

The day starts off normally, we see Emily running down the stairs and through a messy hallway to the kitchen where she grabs a piece of toast and bites it in her teeth while we watch her write a note “Dad, sandwich in the fridge, back later”. She leaves the note on the counter, then putting her bag over her shoulder she hastily walks through the front door.

Emily is greeted by her two friends, Esther and Alex, who are leaning against the old wooden gate of Emily’s house chatting about college work. The girls start on their routine walk to college. It’s a dreary grey day; they pass a row of colourful houses, and cross the road to be on the side of the pavement near the river. As Alex and Esther continue to talk about college work, Emily attracts the attention of a young good looking boy. In seeing her, he crosses the road too. He asks her for the time, she’s sure she knows him, or that he looks familiar. Emily tells him the time in a rather bored manner, he nods and smiles gratefully then he crosses back to his side of the road.

Emily arrives at college, we see her sat in her first class of the day, staring out a window, quietly tapping a pen on the desk in a rhythmic pattern. The bell rings, and we see Emily walk out the class. Waiting by the door is the familiar looking boy from earlier. He tells her that she needs to stop following him – jokily - she says sarcastically that he’s funny and walks off. He starts to follow her, copying her body language. She asks what he’s doing, he says come with me. She says she has class and starts to walk again. He pulls her back, they exchange glances and start heading towards the exit sign. Emily drops her books on the floor in the entrance way. Once again they share a glance with one another and leave. A light is shining from the other side of the exit, the sun is pouring through the small old wooden framed door and through the lifeless hallways as they walk out together…