STORYTELLING UNIT: DOCTOR WHO SERIES 5

Although a Science Fiction TV Series, the Fifth season of Doctor Who was very inspirational when I was looking for ideas for my script after changing my idea from the feedback of the 25 word Pitches. I wanted to add something to the script, a secret almost, that the audience could slowly figure out piece by piece. However, trying to find something in my script proved very difficult and also how to go about doing it so that it's subtle but creates an impact on the audience.

Doctor Who series 5 was the next edition of 'The Doctor' where we changed actors from David Tennant, to Matt Smith. This also changed over writers from Russell T Davis to Steven Moffat so it was a completely new era of Doctor Who. We even got a remake of the Tardis.
Through this series is the Doctor not only becoming a new Doctor and growing his relationship with his new companions, Amy and Rory, but also battling all these different Aliens. All the time something serious going on in the background.

Episode one is where we first see the new Doctor and his relationship with Amy Pound begins and builds. The doctor crash lands the Tardis and is still regenerating. All the time he's adjusting and we're seeing the new Doctor. Amy finds him and asks if he's the answer to her prays about the crack in her wall. He fixes the crack in the wall by opening it and hears a voice saying "Prisoner has escaped" and after finding a giant eye ball alien in this crack, it closes and vanishes. The Doctor then runs off to fix the Tardis but without meaning to ends up returning 12 years later when Amy has grown up. Through the episode the Doctor tracks down Prisoner Zero and finds him and gets him back into prison. At the end of the episode after the Doctor has saved the world Amy agrees to run away with him and  they run off but see that Amy is to get married the next day.

What grabbed me about this series wasn't the adventures of the Doctor and Amy or the different storylines between the episodes. It's that after that first initial episode. We constantly see something over and over again in each episode. Which is that crack that we see in the first episode. At the end of each episode of Doctor Who, we see that there is another crack and these are all over the galaxy and even at different points in time. Below are photos from different

These cracks are seen at the end of each episode, apart from 2 where the Doctor actually see's them but no-one ever knows what they are. Finally in the last 2 episodes of the series we are given the truth and learn the importance of these cracks and that they are seriously dangerous and end up breaking up the fabric of reality and brought the critical episodes which these little mysteries had been leading up to throughout the series and the biggest episode of the series as well.

This lead up to the final episode by showing these cracks, the mystery and wonder behind them which leads to the be reveal of the truth really helps to make the series even more interesting and the writing for this was a brilliant idea. One object which is constantly staring people in the face and makes you question the importance to it is something I wanted in my script.
This was how I came up with the idea for the wedding ring that Jame's wears and always kisses when he's making a decision. When seeing these cracks, I realised that I could use this concept of mystery in my script. I decided to have Jame's almost refer to his ring when making a decision or when a situation gets too hard. Like he's still asking his dead wife what to do or asking her to give him strength. This would then make people question why he was doing that and the importance of the ring until the end of the film where we'll learn the truth about Jame's wife and that she past away. When writing this into my script I felt the impact of the wife's death was more for the audience with the reference to the ring constantly. It shows Jame's isn't over it and it still deeply effects him.