Creative approach
Opening sequence/titles
The film opens with Faye Edwards, aged about 16/17 years old, who is sat at her desk. Plastered all over it are loads of application forms for Dance College that she is filling out. The titles appear in the form of the applications being filled out. Having then completed them we see them sealed and follow her to get them posted.
Inciting incident
Faye is seen at college with her group of friends. They are talking about a party that they all went to last weekend but Faye can’t join in as she wasn’t there. They talk about plans for the next weekend. Her friends try to include her in the following weekend’s plans but she simply replies with ‘we’ll see...’
Progressive complications
Her parents are unsupportive of her: ‘we want you to have a real career’, ‘we have bigger hopes for you’, and ‘you’re very bright, you should think about university, not wasting your time at dance college’. They want her to study an academic subject. She has made up her mind though as this is what she wants to do.
Another progressive complication is the fact that we can see just how tough life as a dancer is: you have to push yourself until you feel physically sick, there is a lot of competition out there, you have to have the right look as well (the right physique, presented well with your clothes and makeup).
Crisis
We find out during a physio examination we find out that Faye’s spine has a curve in it. There is a possibility that this could stop her getting into college.
Climax
Faye is at home with her mum, who is not helping the situation at all because she is insisting upon university. Faye is not at all interested at all. Her letter finally arrives. She hesitates and finally gets up the nerve to open it.
Resolution
We see the expression on Faye’s face leaving the film on a cliff hanger.
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