Allie Timmons is a 16-year old girl who has just moved to Summer Bay with her mother, the new town doctor. She is quiet, shy, and smart but doesn't fit in at her new school. After getting a job at the local diner, Allie collapses and is diagnosed with a brain tumor. She undergoes chemotherapy but later enters into a coma after a car accident with her boyfriend Xavier. Her mother decides to take her off life support, ending her story.
2. CHARACTER OUTLINE
Allie Timmons
She is 16 years old.
She has just moved to Summer Bay because her
mother is the new doctor.
Her father Died when she was four.
Is quiet and shy.
Wears mainly jeans and t-shirts.
Doesn’t really fit in.
Is 1.7m tall.
Very Smart.
3. CHARACTER OUTLINE CONTINUED
She attends Summer Bay High School
She tops all of her classes in the first year.
She doesn’t make any new friends
She is in year 12 at school.
She gets a job at The Diner.
4. PLOT TWIST
One day Xavier comes up to her and asks her out,
she later discovers that it is a dare.
A couple of days later while she is working she
faints and is taken into hospital.
She is told that she has a brain tumor.
Has chemotherapy but still goes downhill.
When she finally starts to recover Xavier comes in
and says that he is sorry and that he really likes
her.
After Xavier and Allie have dated for a year they
both want to go to university in the city and go for a
drive to find a flat.
5. PLOT TWIST CONTINUED
One the way to town Allie falls unconscious, Xavier
trying to wake her up crosses over the centre line
and has to swerve to miss an oncoming car and
they fall down the cliff.
Nobody discovers the car until the next day.
Xavier is dead but Allie is in a coma without much
chance of waking.
Two weeks later her mother decides to turn her life
support off.
6. STEREOTYPES
Allie is stereotyped to be a quiet type of girl who
wouldn’t have much danger in her life.
When she is found to have a brain tumor it shocks
the whole community that somebody like her could
have a serious illness.
My character wouldn’t make much of an impression
on people because people hardly notice that she is
there.
7. HOME AND AWAY
Home and Away was released in 1988 by
Australian television network Seven.
It has very high ratings for an Australian show.
Seven network also produced A Country Practice,
Sons and Daughters, Blue Heelers, All Saints and
Headland.
Home and Away’s main competition is Neighbours.
The shows main viewers are 18-29 year old
females.
This show would be watched by the young and
hopeless TAG group.
8. HOME AND AWAY CONTINUED
The products that would appeal to this audience
would be hair/ beauty products, cleaning products,
make-up, furniture, clothing/ fashion and sales.
The producers of the show are John Holmes and
Cameron Welsh.