Idea In Detail | Development

Idea 3 Development

 

Possible Names

• Misguided Perception
• Mistaken Wisdom

Characters:

Male -

Steven

Age: 18

DOB: October

Appearance:

• Brown hair
• Brown eyes
• Baggy clothes
• Scruffy jeans
• Baggy t-shirt
• Big hoodie
• Black worn out converses

Personality:

• Known as the 'Loser'.
• Quiet
• Reserved
• Insecure
• Unmotivated

Back-Story:

• He used to be hardworking, and involved within his school competing in multiple competitions.
• Now due to home struggles, he sits in class and doesn't bother listening to what is being said or doing any work.
• His parents got divorced during his time at secondary school.
• He thought he coped with it fairly well, but in reality it messed with his head, and he changed a lot.
• He used to be quite outgoing and talkative, but after the divorce he's quiet and doesn't have many friends.
• He has a bad relationship with his parents.
• He lives with his mother, but she's always working so he never gets to see her.
• He never talks to his father.
• His father asked his mother for a divorce and just left, never telling Steven why he left, or where he was going.
• His mother has a new boyfriend who she always spends time when she isn't working.
• Steven doesn't like his mother's boyfriend, but neither does he.
• They disagree on a lot of things, and it's usually the boyfriend that gets his way.
• Due to his mother basically ignoring him and his father forgetting about him, he started to find a way to help resolve his problems and keep them a side for the time being.
• He started to take drugs.
• His friend said his brother is a drug dealer, and Steven became interested in buying them.

 

Female -

Clare
Age: 17
DOB: January

Appearance:

• Blonde hair
• Brown eyes
• Girly clothes
• Skinny jeans
• Light pastel coloured t-shirt
• Brown boots

Personality:

• Known as the 'Popular' Girl.
• Friendly
• Nice
• Passionate
• Hardworking

Back-Story:

• She comes from a wealthy background.
• Her parents both earn a lot of money and are quite snobby.
• Due to her parents being busy within their job, they don't have much time to spend with Clare and her younger brother.
• Clare very rarely sees her parents as they are always away on business meetings/trips, but when she does see them she doesn't get time to have a proper conversation with them.
• As a result of this, she doesn't have a very good relationship with her parents.
• She feels that she can only rely on her friends.
• At school she has a lot of friends that hang around with her.
• Most of these 'friends' are people trying to use her for their own popularity or for her money.
• She doesn't have many loyal friends.
• She tries very hard at school and makes sure to keep on top of her work because she wants to make a living.
• She aims to go to university to get a degree.
• She doesn't want to live off of her families income, and wants to experience life from her own eyes and not her parents.

Goal:
Clare is at the point of a breakdown and after finding her boyfriend cheating on her she needs to leave and actually figure out what she wants in life. Does she want a partner, live in a big house, and live off her wealthy parents? Or does she want to work and create a name for herself, rather then being known as 'Brad's daughter' all the time? Or does she really just long for a healthy, loving relationship with her parents?
Steven realizes that his life is a mess, after his parents divorcing and failing in every exam he has taken, but he needs something to get his mind off of all of that, otherwise he'll hit rock bottom. Is taking drugs the best solution? Or does he just need to have a sit down with his mother, and talk to her about his struggles? What will bring back the old Steven?

Conflict:
Clare - She has to choose whether she cares more about doing well in life, or having a better relationship with her parents. Her parents don't have enough time in their daily lives to talk to and hang out with Clare. She doesn't trust her friends because she knows they gossip a lot. She doesn't really have anyone that she can talk to, and being at the time of her life where she has to decide what she wants to do after school, she has to think about what her priorities are going to be.
Steven - He doesn't speak to his father after the divorce, and he barely sees his mother even though she lives with her. Feeling neglected and hurt by his parents he tries to find a way to help him get back on track. After finding out that his 'friends' brother is a drug dealer of some sorts, he has to make the decision whether he actually wants to take the drugs, or whether he wants to solve his problems through talking to someone.

Change:
Both of the characters used to judge each other by their looks, some of their personality traits, and their family. They didn't know much about their family life outside of school, they only knew what they had heard. Clare saw Steven as a quiet, irritated, rude guy who always slacked in school and never cared whether he was failing or not. However he isn't any of that, he's just emotionally and mentally lost, confused and hurt. Steven saw Clare as the annoying girl that every in school wants to be just like, with a few others who clearly dislike her and her popularity. She was the one who always did her work, sucked up to the teachers, and lived off of her parents money creating a spoilt characteristic. But she isn't spoilt, or a suck up, she just wants to do well in life. She's only talkative to everyone at school, including the teachers, because she barely gets any interaction with her family members back at home. Neither of them knew what one another was like outside of school, and they didn't know what one another's family life was like. Now they understand that they shouldn't judge a book by it's cover because who knows what struggles everyone is going through in their personal life. Instead of being complete opposites, they find out that their lives are quite similar, and they have something in common, bringing them together and creating some sort of friendship.