DEVELOPED NARRATIVE

1.Child (Jack) on stairs bumping down like young children do when learning to walk, at each step his clothes change, showing that this is a daily routine.

2.His mum (Emma) is setting up the kitchen table, aligning cereal boxes and neatly setting a place for Jack to sit at.

3.He is sitting at the Kitchen table surrounded by 7 very neatly organised cereal boxes, meticulously he picks a certain amount of grains per box and places them in his bowl. He then pours the bowl until it reaches exactly half full. He stirs twice clockwise with his spoon and thrice anti-clockwise then licks the spoon to check its ok. Then he begins eating.

4.All the time Emma has been moving around him doing her own morning activities. The scene is played at an increased speed but filmed in two motions, it will seem that the boy is eating at a normal speed but that Emma is moving far faster around him, appearing in and out of the shot. Wearing a dressing gown. This is to show how long it takes him to eat his cereal.

5.Now Jack is standing staring at something out of shot of the camera, the camera rotates 180* to show a large lego sculpture that the boy walks towards and begins to add more pieces, slowly picking the pieces from a colour coded box and adding them precisely, not forcing them on but placing them definitively in their correct location. 

6.Emma leaves the kitchen in background (out of focus) and goes upstairs, Jack is on the living room sofa, and pulls a Rubik's Cube out of the cabinet. There is a close up on his hands and the Rubik's cube is completed in 20 seconds. 

ACT2

1.Jack is sitting on the sofa watching TV, (discovery channel). Mum, Emma is in the office at the front of the house, busy taking a conference call. We see photos on the windowsill of her and jack, her at work and her with friends and just of jack. 

2.Jack sees the cube beside him on the sofa and smiles, he gets up and the camera follows him out of the kitchen and to the office. 

3.He tries to show Emma the cube but she pushes him away briefly, trying to focus on the call, she types whilst speaking. 

4.Jack starts to freak out and Emma realises, sighing she hurriedly to calm him but is busy talking.

5.The voice on the phone asks 'Sorry is this a bad time' She has to switch between Jack & conference call but can't handle both.

6.Jack pushes the phone out of her hand and it falls down the small stairs. She gives up and focuses on him to calm him down. She takes the cube and tells him how impressive it is. 

7.She puts the planet earth DVD in the DVD player and the TV rises out of the cabinet. She sits him in-front of the TV and makes sure everything is working.

8.She goes to her desk and looks over photos, chooses photo of her in her youth with friends and work colleagues. Picks it up and goes out to the front of the house. Leaves the front door on latch.

9.She lights a cigarette and leans by the front door,  just holds the photo to her chest. 

As she goes back into the house she picks up the milk bottles from outside the house and closes the door. 

This developed narrative allows us to focus as much on the mother as on the boy (act 1 mainly focuses on the boy, act 2 on the mother). This means we can worry less about the depth of the boy's character as we will only scratch the surface on his issues and the same with the mother, while we also link both of the characters' problems together.

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