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Concept - The Face of Saint Peter's

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Introduction The face of St. Peters expresses the story of a conspiring prefect attempting to sabotage the current head boy’s role. Carl, the head boy, is a very respectable student at St. Peters and had always been in the running for the upmost student position as head boy, but Jim, the conspiring prefect, is blinded by jealousy in that thinking he is the man for the job. Jim's sheer jealousy drives him and motivates him to go to extensive measures in attempting to get Carl to mess up with the assistance of his Auckland Grammar school pal, Gene, resulting in being stepped down from his position. This is a miserable and shocking failure as Carl realizes his plan, and backs away, leaving Jim and Gene in serious consequences with their schools. Plot (Shots 1-5): The film kicks off with Carl, the head boy (head prefect) of St. Peters College, reading the daily notices out to all the students and teachers in the school on the top yard during morning assembly. As Carl is reading, the film changes into the scene where Jim (another prefect of lower role) is having a conversation with Jake (also another prefect of lower role). Jim tells Jake that he thinks he deserves the position Carl is in and even calls him an “amateur”, and it is here where the audience realizes he is the conspiring prefect in the film and is the antagonist. Jim explains to Jake his plot to sabotage Carl in order to have him stripped of his current role so he can take the head boy role himself. Carl then joins the conversation after he is done reading the notices and Jim puts on the friendly act with Carl. (Shots 6-7): After the three-way conversation between the three prefects, the scene changes into a classroom block, where later in the day, Carl runs into another prefect, Will, who shares a mutual suspicion about Jim with Carl. Will asks if Carl has seen Jim today and accuses Jim of stealing a presentation of his to sell for his own benefit. Carl does have his

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