The Lonely Life of a Teenager script

THE LONELY LIFE OF A TEENAGER SCRIPT

(Fade from black, for this segment audio is muffled)

MR ANDERSON: (talking about *interesting* history stuff for roughly 5 seconds)

MR ANDERSON: Max.

MR ANDERSON: MAX!

(Audio fades in, Max wakes up)

MAX: (quietly) Huh? What?

MR ANDERSON: Hey Max, since you are very attentive can you tell me the date at which World War 2 began?

MAX: uhhh (brief pause) I did know, but I kinda forgot…

MR ANDERSON: (sarcastically) Can anybody here please enlighten me with an answer?

TIFFANY: Uh, sir, it’s the 3^rd of September 1939, when Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister, declared war on Germany.

MR ANDERSON: (talking while Tiffany speaks, praises her and continues speaking)

TIFFANY: (Quieter, looking at Max, leans towards her) Looks like you aren’t a smartass after all.

BRITNEY, WHITNEY: *giggling*

(School Bell rings, people begin to pack up and leave)

MR ANDERSON: (Louder voice) Don’t forget your history assignment for Friday please, and don’t forget the test on Monday.

(Max leaves frame, shot changes to a match-on-action of her walking out the door, then looks around briefly)

(Switch to internal narration, Max is standing in front of the door)

Max: *sigh* That was embarrassing. At least I can go home now, I guess. Not like anyone will actually talk to me or anything.

(Max moves to one side and puts on headphones and proceeds to walk home)

(Some titles put during this sequence)

Max: My name’s Max if you didn’t catch it. Mr Anderson has a habit of picking on me for some reason.

(Max sees Tiffany, Britney and Whitney)

Max: And, of course, the stereotypical clichéd mean girls. And they picked on me because I can’t afford clothes that cost literally 10 times my allowance.

(Max sees Sam)

Max: And there’s Sam. He’s nice and I’m grateful that he isn’t a dick. I guess not everyone hates me. Think positively, as mum always says. It’s hard though, when it doesn’t feel like you’re a part of the school. Just some weird girl who can’t answer a basic history question.

Our script is fairly short, this is because we want to be able to fit everything we had planned into our film. Despite the length, we still feel that it is effective in establishing the characters and setting the scene.