Cast & Camera Man List - By James Allen & Luke Green

Cast;

Mike Dawson - James Allen
Vladimir Zhirkov - Luke Green
Coach Howard - Alexander Martin
Jim Davidson - Joshua Nutt
Charlotte Taylor - Kirsten Barman
Additional Journalists - Connor Asquith
Daniel Stammers
John Jones
Brett Cooper
Andrew Robinson
Jodie Bird
Robert Wragg

Camera Man - Ian Uttley

Character Profile - Jim Davidson - By Luke Green & James Allen

Name: Jim Davidson
Age: 27
Proffession: Journalist for Barnsley Chronicle
Bio: Journalist for Barnsley Chronicle, in the fighting sport section and is going to be involved heavily during the movie reporting on events that will happen.

Treatment Number 1 - By Luke Green

Title: Redemption - Its Now Or Never

Duration: 90 mins

Audience: Rated 15

15-30 Year Olds

Gender: Mostly Male, Hoping to attract women by the handsome protagonist.

Synopsis:

- Successful Barnsley boxer, set for global stardom.

- Arrested a week before a fight for GBH and gang affiliation.

- Released after a year to find family rejects him and boxing leagues forgotten him.

- Nearly gets involved with same gang again until old coach interferes and cleans him up.

- Gets a job and displays a willingness to change when starts boxing again.

- Makes attempt to reconcile with family but is turned away.

- Opportunity strikes with top ranked opponent, same as year ago.

- Opponent against the fight due to protagonist being a criminal.

- He learns about main characters conviction and trys to exploit it.

- Protagonist is baited to protect family member and is arrested.

- Gets released one week before fight on self-defence.

- Lack of training means he loses fight but is given re-match.

- Nothing can be pinned on opponent but is later mobbed by gang, now fans of protagonist.

- Family recognises protagonist struggle and support him during and after fight.

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Character Profile-Coach Barry Howard - By Ian Uttley

Name-Barry Howard (referred to as Sir)

Age- 42

Occupation- Coach also an ex-boxer

Bio-Barry Howard was a boxer since he was 10 and turned professional when he was eighteen in the middle weight but soon became heavyweight. How ever after 10 years of being a pro-boxer he was involved in a car accident of which his wife and 2 children died in. After the accident, he fell in a deep depression and started drinking and tried to commit suicide on several occasions before he was admitted to a New Rose Mental Institution to help deal with his depression after he was released at age 33 he started to train rookie boxers and turning them professional and he met Mike around 5 years ago and has been training him ever since.

Character Profile Script 2 - Vladamir Zhirkov - By Luke Green

Name - Vladamir 'Vlad' Zhirkov

Age - 27

Boxing Weight Class - Light Heavyweight

Boxing Record - 10 - 1 (9)

Height - 6'5

Born - Moskow, Russia

Fights out of - Manchester, England

Bio - Vlad Zhirkov was originally from Moscow , Russia. An abusive drunkard of a father and a mother that died giving birth, his upbringing was anything but ideal, Having nothing in his life he entered bare knuckle fights in the back alley's of Moskow trying to get enough money to leave to a better place.

He eventually flew to Manchester , England at the age of 21; And ever since has been boxing professionally all over the country, With 9 Knockouts and only one loss (which was heavily disputed) He is in line for the title with only one man in his way , The up and coming convict known as Mike Dawson

Character Profile - Mike Dawson - By James Allen

Full Name: Michael 'Mike' David Dawson
Age: 25
Height: 6ft3
Occupation: Proffesional Boxer
Bio: Mike, born in Barnsley is a 25 year old proffesional boxer that holds a record of 11 wins and no losses with 8 of those victories coming through KO's. At age 23, he hit a sticky patch in his career as he was sentenced to a year in jail after being charged with GBH at a football game as part of a gang firm that cause trouble at football games. He got rejected by his family and boxing associations not wanting anything to do with how they labelled him 'THUG'. He was trained by Barry Howard in his early career but later got a new coach before being imprisoned but then after being released from jail. Barry saves Mike from old ways to try get this gifted boxer back on track. He is known as a quick fire puncher usually combinations to to head and body that usually results in KnockDowns or TKO. Only 3 men have gone the distance with Mike, however Mike was totally dominant in those fights.

Movie Genre: Sport - By James Allen

The movie genre sport is a hybrid sub-genre and are usually films based around sport and are usually set in sport surrounded areas like baseball/ football stadiums, basketball arenas and boxing venues. The usual storyline for a sport film is that there is usually a big competition if usually team sport and one predominant athlete if its boxing or athletic based film. Sport films can be made fictionally or non-fictionally.

The main topics that are used for sport genre are:
- Biopics
- Drama's
- Comedies
- Documentarys
- Fantasies
- Melodramas

There are also some sport films that have been made on true stories like:
- Cool Runnings
- Bring it On
- Gladiator
- The Cincinatti Kid
- The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner
- Jerry Maguire

Boxing Sub-Genre:

Boxing is a Genre within the Sport Genre and portrays usually a fighter that is the predominant fighter either making his way up the glory ladder or is sitting on top of it and is maybe going to fall down the rankings.
Two boxing films are in both the Sports Illustrated and Palm Beach Post's Top 10 Sport Films of All Time, Rocky and Raging Bull.
The most popular and the most successful of all boxing movies are the Rocky movies that starred Sylvester Stylone.