Draft script

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Jordon and Sam on the Beach in the day, only Sam can be seen. She is throwing stones in the sea. Facts appear on screen as they are said.	V/O presenter- Teen pregnancy facts
Camera pans out and Jordon is revealed.	V/O presenter introduction- ‘This is Sam and Jordon. Sam had Jordon when she was 16 years old, making her another figure in the teen pregnancy statistics in the UK…’
Lorraine (Sam’s mum) at the park with her grandchild, not Jordon.	Lorraine will tell the story of how she found out and what her reaction was. ‘Sam didn’t tell me till she was 7 moths pregnant, being her mother I wondered how I hadn’t noticed...’
Archive footage of Jordon as a baby.	V/O ‘When Jordon was born all anger turned to love and nurture...’
Lorraine walking home with grandchild.	V/O ‘I am so proud of Sam and the woman she has grown into, having Jordon has changed her life for the better.’
Sam and Leanne (Sams bestfriend)	V/O Presenter- ‘Sam and Leanne have been best friends for 18 years, Leanne went through the pregnancy with Sam, and knows all the hardship she has been through…’
Leanne at Sam’s house making a cup of tea	Question answer interview with presenters V/O ‘When did Sam first tell you she was pregnant?...’ LINK TO SCHOOL
School archive footage of Sam in before and after she was pregnant.	Leanne V/O (Interview cont.)
School archive footage of Jordon	V/O presenter- ‘Jordon and Sam went to the same secondry school, so a lot of the teachers that teach there now have not only taught Jordon but Sam aswell…’
Sequence of Jordon and Sam revisiting the school	V/O presenter- ‘Although a lot of teachers washed their hands with Sam once they found out she was pregnant, There was one teacher Mrs Lewis, that really stood by her and gave her some of the best pieces of advices that she received…’
Sam in Living room on the sofa	Informal interview with V/O presenter. ‘When I found out I was pregnant at 16, my world around me seemed to collapse...
Sam with her two children, Jordon and Ollie on the beach at sunset.	V/O presenter Conclusion

This is the draft script that Abbi and myself have been working on, we now know all our sequences but realise that it will need some tweaking as we go on.

Maddie

Interview questions

Me and Maddie have been discussing what questions we would like to ask the people we are interviewing. We have 3 people that we will be interviewing for the Millennium Mum documentary, they are:
Lorraine Hubbard- Sam's mother
Leanne O'Mera- Sam's best friend
Samantha Hubbard

Here are the questions we would like to ask:

Lorraine:

• How did you find out about Sam's pregnancy?
• How did you feel when you found out? Scared, worried, angry?
• Did it remind you of when you found out you were pregnant as a teenager?
• What advice did you give Sam?
• Has Sam becoming a teen mum effected the way in which you view teenage mothers now?
• How do you feel Sam's life has panned out?

Leanne:

• When did you find out that Sam was pregnant?
• What was your reaction?
• What advice did you give Sam?
• Did yours and Sam's relationship change in any way once you found out she was pregnant/ Sam had the baby?
• Was it hard to see your friend go through pregnancy and take on such a big responsibility at a young age?
• What stories could you tell us about you and Sam? Both before and after having Jordon.

Sam:

• When did you find out that you were pregnant?
• How did you find out?
• How did you feel when you found out?
• What was your first reaction?
• Who did you tell first about your pregnancy?
• Would you change anything about how your life has turned out?
• What advice would you give to teen mothers today, knowing what you do now and experiencing what you have?

We are going to have some of these interviews as question and answer but others a bit more unstructured and raw so we get the true opinion of the interviewee across. 

Abbi

Location research

Our documentry will be set in Abbis home town, so obviously she knows alot about the area and which location siwll be best to shoot at. I have only been to Brighton a few times myself, so I dont know the area that well atall. I have deceided to do a bit of location research so I can imagne what we have tro work with.

For our end sequence we would like to film on the beach and pier at night time. I think that that it would make a very good location, as the lighgts are so bright and vibrant and would make a very good ending shot.

These are some shots that I found of Brighton beach in the day time. For our first sequence we would like to have Sam and Jordon on the beach in the day. We would also like to uyse the natural sounds that come with being on a beach, such as waves crashing, seagulls, children playing.

I also have looked up the street that Sam now lives on called, 'Tidy Street.'

I like the colours of the houses on the street and think one sequence that would be good would be to have her and Jordon walking down the street on a daily journey.

This is the school that Sam went to as a teenager and where she was when she fell pregnant. Also Jordon has now started here as a year 7. As this schools holds so much emotional value to both Sam and Jordon, we think it is vital to do some filming of it. Due to access issues, it may just be a case of the two of them walking through the school gates.

This research has given me a wider insight into the locoations that we can possibly film at.

Maddie

Planning has started!

Today in our commissioning unit lecture we learnt about how we should plan before we start the shooting of our documentary. We learnt about the basic things such as what our hypothesis is going to be, what elements we are looking to including, the sequences we would like to shoot and what we would like to have in our script. Here are some of these things for Millennium Mum:

Hypothesis:
This is going to be a revelation documentary about the life of a teen Mum and how her and her childs life has turned out. We will want to be asking questions such as, does being a teen mum make you a bad parent? Does your child automatically have a poorer quality of life just because his mother was so young when she had him?

Elements to the documentary:

• Archive footage such as baby videos of Jordon and photos of Sam growing up.
• Interviews with close family (mum, dad, nan, sam herself etc)
• Interviews with a teacher who knew Sam when she was preganant, asking how she felt this affected Sam whilst pregnant at school.
• Narration throughout
• Character driven

We are now going to concentrate on how we will do our sequences for the documentary.
Abbi