DRAMA FROM EXISITING STORIES: Alternate endings (2 hours)

Choose a well-known story. Consider the ‘big themes’ of the story and explore possible alternate endings. Decide on the most powerful new ending and film your new story. This task is best suited to group work.

Evidence: Consider how to record the planning stages to accompany your final film. Reflect on the challenges of this kind of assessment evidence. Your final film should be submitted electronically.

I decided to look at Beauty and the Beast as the fairytale to create an alternate ending for. It was one of my favourites as a child and earlier this year I went to see the new version at the cinema. I felt inspired to create a more realistic ending, with Belle deciding that when the beast turns back into his human self, that he wasn’t as attractive as she thought he’d be and that she preferred the Candlestick in his human form.

When planning how I would film my alternate ending I knew i’d need two other characters, so asked my two friends to help me. A challenge we faced during filming was that we struggled to not laugh. To make the most of our time, we then went on to film each others alternate endings, with us all being the extra characters within the pieces. This worked well and allowed our scenes to be more interesting and complex, with a couple of supporting characters.