Section 6: Script and Character Profiles

Character Profiles



Heidi Williams
Name: Heidi Williams
Age: 17
What she looks like: She’s a tall baby faced girl with curly hair, she’s very pretty but doesn’t seem to know it. She looks innocent and pure.
Personality: Heidi is fairly shy apart from when she’s around people she feels comfortable with. She trusts to easily and because of this she’s very influential. She likes to be liked, an often gets walked all over. She seems confused quite a lot but she isn’t stupid, she has good grades in all her exams and has a good amount of common sense. She has been desperate to find her birth mother for years, and because of this she seems constantly sad and upset. Although she hides her feelings quite well, she is quite easy to read.
Background/Where she’s from: She’s been brought up in a nice family home with a loving father and stepmother. She’s lived in Ipstones all her life and loved it. It’s a rural place, with lots of animals. She has a cat and two dogs of her own, this seems to make up for her lack of a close companion or sibling. Her life has always felt a bit empty and she’s felt a bit lost all her life, even when she’s at home with her Dad, step mum and pets.
Job: She has worked as a waitress in her local pub/restaurant since she was 13 and is respected as she’s always on time and works to the best of her ability. She also helps out a few families in her little village by babysitting whenever they need her to. She’s very trustworthy.
Relationships: She had a boyfriend for a few months but he left her village to go to university so they decided to just stay as friends. When he left she felt like she was more alone than ever, as not only has she lost her boyfriends but also her best friend. She always had a close relationship with her dad, and although she did get on well with her step mum, she always felt like she couldn't be herself with her around.
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Name: Spike – It’s his gang name but the audience or other characters never find out his real name. Heidi and a lot of the other gang members just refer to him as ‘boss’.
Age: 36
What he looks like: He’s tall, well built and muscular. His head is shaved, and he has large scar down the left side of his ear and neck.
Personality: Spike is aggressive and controlling. He likes to be in control of every situation thrown at him and his gang and he’s well known by everyone around the surrounding areas for being such a notorious criminal. Since teenage years he’s been a bully. He’s very dominant, and he makes it obvious to everyone exactly whose boss. Spike’s continuously patronising towards Heidi, and he makes her feel like she can’t do anything without his guidance and help. He has a secret soft spot for Heidi, as he thinks she’s a really attractive girl, but he wouldn’t let anyone know this, so to counteract it, he’s even more horrible to her than he should be. He is very powerful in the sense that whatever he wants, he gets, and he’s a bad influence to both gang members and non-gang members.
Background/Where he’s from: He hasn’t always been a bully. He was brought up in a rough, central London council flat with his parents, who were both druggies. They bred pit-bulls, and trained them to fight illegally at there local drug den. His parents weren’t good parents, so he had to try and bring himself up from an early age as they were never around to look after him. Through-out his early teenage years his parents mocked him mercilessly for being skinny, and they’d always call him horrendous names. This set the ball rolling in Spike’s head to want to get bigger and prove his parents wrong. So he started using steroids and weight lifting anything he could that was heavy. As soon as he felt he was ready he packed the little things he had into a bag and left his family home. He knew he could make a better life for himself elsewhere; and that’s what he thinks he’s done.
Job: He’s never been employed by anyone but himself, as no employers would ever give him a chance, not that he gave them much of a reason to. He’s now a well known drug dealer and pimp throughout the whole city. This rakes in a lot of cash, but also trouble with it.
Relationships: Spike has had countless sexual partners and one night stands, but got married nine years ago to Tracie. He still sleeps around; and Tracie knows it but pretends it isn’t happening because she loves him. Spike only got married because he knew Tracie loved him and would do anything for him, so he though it was best to get married for stability. He walks all over Tracie, and she lets him. She likes to think he loves her, but doesn’t ever ask him, because she’s afraid of rejection.
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Name: Justin Nicholson
Age: 19 years old
Appearance: Justin is 6’2 and well built, he takes care of his appearance because of his hidden insecurities. A good looking guy with blond hair, blue eyes and a well structured jaw line. His dress sense is good, but because of his financial situations Justin tends to wear similar clothes.
Personality traits: Justin is easily approachable and extremely laid back, this is reflected in his kind hearted attitude and relationship with Heidi. However, Justin is also insecure and his vanity shows this, his false over confidence is dramatic irony as Justin appears as a rock and genuine strength for Heidi. He considers her well being over his own.
History & Family background: Raised in Kingsway, Justin is aware of the dangers in which living in a city may lead to as he has witnessed and suffered from tragedies in his home town. Despite being laid back he is always first to consider and protect. His mother and father suffered a fatal car crash five years ago and with little heritage Justin left school with poor grades leading him to immediately get a full time job. Living in a 10th floor apartment, Justin has no close family to support him and can therefore emphasise with Heidi’s situation.
Lifestyle: Since the age of 16, Justin has been forced to work in a call centre due to lack of qualifications and motivation to move on and leave his home town. However, Justin likes to support his local community by volunteering to life guard at the local swimming pool. Being well built, most of Justin’s income is spent on food and the gym as well as paying the weekly rent to live in his flat. He does not smoke or take drugs, however keeps an open mind on those who are part of that culture. Justi n alienated himself from his friends after his parents’ death and therefore when Heidi moves into the flat across from him, he welcomes her with open arms in order to seek a friendship which he needs.
Relationships: Justin has no immediate family left and has found it hard to get close to anybody since the death of his parents. As Justin is stereotyped by the local community as the ‘nice guy’ it has led to a lot of female attention, however Justin has not felt ready to commit into a relationship due to the pressure and stress in his current life. 

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Script: Script


TITLES END. EXT L/S AND SAD NON DIEGETIC MUSIC. HEIDI exits the noisy train station after leaving her hometown in search of her mother. Heidi is nervously looking around and is unfamiliar with the area.

M/S Heidi stops at the corner unsure of which way to go. Looks left and right and then nervously and hastily continues

C/U and Z/I in on MAP and PHOTOGRAPH in Heidi’s hand before Heidi begins to cry

L/S and Z/O as passerby bumps into Heidi leaving her nervous [cries more]

EXT Z/I of TAXI

MUSIC ENDS