Researching Materials for Script

Published Scripts

                                                                                                                                                                                             
Nowhere Boy, 2009

Sam Taylor-Johnson film about John Lennon's childhood. It focuses mainly on his relationship growing up with his auntie and then how his mother comes into his life later on. Whilst this is all happening, he is proposing a rock 'n' roll group and planning to reach stardom.

here is a link to the screenplay http://moviecultists.com/wp-content/uploads/screenplays/nowhere-boy.pdf




Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

A biography of Ian Dury who was diagnosed with polio at a younger age and became one of the founder members of the punk rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.








Shine a Light,2006

A film/documentary about the Rolling Stones and their career. Directed by Martin Scorsese, it shows them at one of their gigs from their bigger bang tour.

Here is the trailer for the film 



Factual Information

Drugs  in the 60's 

The 60's was the time when people started to indulge into drugs such as cocaine, cannabis and LSD. Getting high was seen as the norm by a lot of youngsters in the 60's.
Music was one of the main influences of why people took drugs, the music was seen as psychedelic

script synopsis

Script synopsis

The drama is set at the beginning on the 1960's.The opening of the drama starts with at one the gigs with the innocent makers, after the gig the band Ian, Gary, Dave and Mike are approached backstage by a record label who is interested in signing the band. At this stage the band from London had been widely popular and compared to being up there with the Beatles and Rolling Stones. This was the bands big chance to become ultimate pop stars and inspire a generation.

once their record is recorded and released their hit 'Stay With Him' goes straight to number 1 in the UK pop charts. Once the band start getting more money, they’re buying big houses and nice cars but lead singer Ian found other ways of spending his money. It then shows him indulging in a life of starting off with doing lighter drugs such as cannabis; this then leads to him doing harsher drugs such as cocaine and LSD. It shows him getting worse and worse, which ultimately leads to his wife walking out on him with his kids.  The innocent makers do a gig in which was their first in America, the lead singer Ian has other ideas and gets drunk and high on drugs whilst on stage, ruining the gig and the innocent maker’s big opportunity. This then leads to the innocent makers kicking Ian out of the band and carrying on the tour without him. He still indulges in the drugs over self-pity and feeling sorry for himself, however one day when trying heroin, he collapses on the floor in his home, after going to hospital the doctor reveals to him after he comes around he could have died.

Once Ian receives this reality check, he decides to turn his life around and admit himself into a rehabilitation clinic. After 3 months he is then clean and working on his new solo record and having contact with his children. The innocent makers then reunite in the 80’s for a comeback tour.

screenplay proposal

There are many reasons why you would produce a script proposal. For example, if you have a good idea for a production such as a film or a television programme, a script proposal would be the best way to draw up your ideas. Script proposals are used to make for all sorts of productions such as films, factual programme, factual entertainment programme which effectively could be used to make quiz shows, reality TV shows, sport broadcasts or variety performances; for example, 'Family Fortunes'. Also fictional entertainment programmes such as sketch shows, sitcoms or dramas; for example 'Peep show'.

 he way in which i intend to present my script proposal is in a written report explaining in detail about the programme that I am going to make. I am also going to use focus groups were i will present my ideas to others to receive feedback and advice on how i could improve my work. As well as this, I intend to research using the internet to gather ideas of how to produce a script proposal.

The title of my script proposal is going to be 'Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll'. The genre of the production is going to be a drama. Also, the target audience I am aiming it at is 25-60 male and female who are working class. The production is going to start and set in the 1960's. I also plan to have the production as a single episode. The intention of my product is to have people interested in people’s ways of life in the 1960's but despite there being a good happy side to the decade there was also a dark side involving drugs and violence. The language of characters will be so the audience can understand and the characters will be so the audience can relate themselves to the characters. The main character of my production is Ian, at the time Ian is 20 years old who is the lead singer of an up and coming band called the innocent makers. Once fame and money gets to him he indulges in a life of drugs which ultimately lead to the breakdown of the band, his marriage and relationship with his kids. Once a near death experience happens he then turns his life around. The idea of this came from a film I  watched which was also called sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll but about a character who was stricken with polio at a young age and overcomes expectations by become one of the biggest stars of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s. I thought that I could take this idea and interpret it in my own way.