Frank Ash is a creative consultant at the BBC Academy and teaches creativity and storytelling techniques. He enforces the importance of targeting a specific audience and this can be achieved by deciding your top line and big question.
TOP LINE DEFINITION: A young girl can't cope with the death of her older sister. The audience see flash backs of the two sisters together through the eyes of the younger child, in contrast to this we see the girl alone in the present. As the girl begins to accept the death we see the phone rings, leaving the audience shocked and wondering if the elder sister is truly dead.
BIG QUESTION DEFINITION: Will the child find out the truth about their sibling? Is the eldest child alive or dead?
Good work. You have the green light to develop this treatment.
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