Script

Ideas for Script

My name is Owen Haynes. I'm 23 years old. Ever since I can remember I've not had a father to look up to. It's just been me and my mother living in our little council house in London's East End. I have not had a good childhood. I got pushed over and beat up a lot. My mother suggested telling teachers but I'd get battered from head to toe. She told me how my father was an amateur boxer which inspired me to start lessons. As I became older, the anger grew on me, and I wanted revenge.

My name is Owen Haynes. I'm 23 years old and training to be a boxer. My father was an amateur boxer and his career inspired me. Ever since I left school I didn't see why I should put up with bullies any more. I wanted to be on the other side of things; I wanted to be a boxer.

We put these ideas together, with other ideas we had thought about to create a final draft:

Final Script

Owen Haynes: My name is Owen Haynes. Last summer something happened in my life to make me realise I gotta make something of myself; my mate, Danny, from school, convinced me to join his gym. Little did I know it was specialised in boxing. Boxing really wasn't my thing, you only had to look at me to know that; when I started I was the same small, scrawny little bastard as I was when I was a kid. I was constantly looking over my shoulder, I didn't think that anything could be worse than my childhood. I always wanted to get something out of life, i think now is the time for that to happen...