Kevin Saunders Creative Services

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THE END OF THE LINE – PART ONE

THE END OF THE LINE – PART TWO

THE END OF THE LINE – PART THREE

Herts County Council Youth Connexions asked me and my partner in crime, youth work author/guru Vanessa Rogers (www.vanessarogers.co.uk) to work with the Watford Youth Advocates to create a film about their problems with local public transport.

Working with production company Positive Strides, director Laura Baylem and Director of Photography Stephen Foloronshu – as well as Jonathan Jack at Youth Connexions we ran a weekend residential workshop to help the young people focus and refine their ideas. I then wrote the script, with the young people’s approval, and we shot the 15-minute movie over several very long days in Watford.

Read the synopsis:

THE END OF THE LINE

They’re too young to drive; too old to get a cheap ride – and three journeys turn into very bad trips. This ‘road-movie-that-never-was’ is fictional but true: with a couple of laughs, a hint of horror and absolutely no happy endings.

Synopsis

THE END OF THE LINE comprises three stories about three attempted journeys using Watford’s public transport.

In VICIOUS CIRCLE a timid and vulnerable Emily is disgorged from an under-eighteens night at a town centre club and in the stampede triggered by a bullish bouncer she becomes separated from her friends. Abandoned alone in a whirl of screaming neon she totters to the dark solitude of the bus stop – only to find she’s missed the last bus. She phones her mother, who scrambles Emily’s sleeping sister and circles the ring road in growing desperation while a teenage girl gang set viciously about her little ‘Cassiobury girl’…

SEAN’S HOT DATE opens full of hope as our hero grooms and gurns in his bathroom mirror, brimming with delicious anticipation of his date with the gorgeous Rebecca. Strutting Travolta-style in time with the grooves on his iPod, he arrives at the bus stop – and that’s where events conspire to dash his hopes… Reduced almost to tears of frustration after three buses rumble past without stopping, he finally boards a bus only to find he has to pay adult fare. And that’s not the worst of it – in the meantime Rebecca’s pacing impatiently, cold, hurt and angry. Arriving at his rendez-vous way too late, he’s just in time to witness his precious Rebecca falling into the arms of another…

In the eponymous THE END OF THE LINE, Sarah and her friends are going home from a night out in high spirits. But Sarah’s friends alight at the stop before. So she’s left alone in the carriage. Or is she? A sinister figure sits silently several seats back. In the flickering instant of darkness as the lights fizz and crackle, he’s suddenly way too close. Then closer still. As the tube slides into Watford Met, a panicked Sarah teeters on high heels to the exit, tries and fails to phone her dad. Then, with a long, ominous shadow looming over her, she girds herself for the long, lonely walk through Cassiobury park…