Film 4 O'Clock Club

# Where do you go when you know nobody can understand you?

# When it's just too much to handle?

# What do you do when you end up somewhere you never planned to?

# Washed out, stressed out like it was shampoo

# You should stay It can change

# There's good days and bad days

# But one day down the line this time is sure to stop

# So the only time is now 4 O'Clock

# 4 O'Clock, 4 O'Clock, 4 O'Clock. #

Good morning, Elmsmere.

-What is wrong with you?

-Nothing.

Everything is going right.

The school is failing, CJ. Failing!

Ah. SAD MUSIC PLAYS

Helena!

What a wonderful morning!

Crispin.

-I wish I had your enthusiasm.

-Oh!

It's time I took a break.

I'm announcing to the assembly that you'll be taking over for a while.

Excellent!

Decision for the school, I mean.

A really sad day for you, personally, obviously.

I can't believe I lost a mark on this test.

A mark? Like one mark?

You're crazy. 99 ain't a fail.

I should've got 100. I was so close!

-I've got to do something.

-Yeah!

-Get a grip.

-LAUGHTER

-I'm going to ask to take it again.

-Whaaat?!

I have to reset this test.

99% might seem good, but I know I can do better.

So I have to try.

You can't just give up, you know? UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYS

You've got to fight on.

Polly Morgan, you are...

..an inspiration.

CHATTER

Something very special is about to happen.

Good morning, everyone.

This is a transformative moment for this school.

A turning point.

It is with great emotion that I can announce to you...

..the Elmsmere Manor tea towel.

I know, I know.

It is very exciting, isn't it? Oh!

This is special. I love tea towels.

I've got one with the periodic table on it.

So, every pupil and teacher will do

a self-portrait to be printed on the towels.

I can't believe I'm having this dream again.

Fabulous, everybody.

She's finally lost it. Who still uses a tea towel?

I moved to paper plates, full-time. Washing up is for wimps.

-Ah, Graham.

-What?

I found a use for your geography degree.

What geography degree is that, then?

The one on your CV.

Oh...

..that geography degree. Go on.

Well, I've said that Polly Morgan can retake her test,

so I need somebody to set a new test for...

..tomorrow afternoon.

Sorry, love, got paintballing tomorrow.

I...I think a child's education is a bit more important

than that, don't you?

Multiple-choice, 100 questions, three answers for each.

Thank you, Graham.

Oi, Morgan. Tell Goodman you have changed your mind

and you don't want to retake this stupid test anyway.

Uh...no.

It's geography. Who needs that when you've got Google Maps?

Maybe she just wants to study hard,

so she doesn't end up as a PE teacher.

Right. You want geography?

I'm going to write you the hardest test this world has ever seen

and what ever mark you get - be it 10%, 5% -

that mark will stand.

-Fine.

-Fine.

Fine!

Whoa! You look like a potato, captured forever on a tea towel.

You should have drawn the mouth bigger. Loads bigger.

Well, you should have drawn a toilet roll,

so it looks more like your face.

Which is a toilet roll with a face on it.

What's this?

Oh, my days.

Ow!

There's a hole, it goes straight through.

If you like that, there are some missing bricks in the science plot

you're going to love.

Straight through to the staff room. Think about it.

-We can listen into everything they say.

-Gossip?

-Blackmail.

-Anything I can help you with?

-No thanks, sis. All good.

BELL

You don't think you should just do some work?

That's a common mistake. Making a revision timetable first

will mean I work much more effectively.

There's over 1,000 pupils at this school.

Each face on the tea towel is going to be the size of a pin.

If Goodman really wants to bring everyone together,

she should do something that is actually fun.

-SHE GASPS

-Like, my cousin's school

did a lip-synch video.

Everyone got involved.

Dancing, making costumes.

That would be way better than tea towels.

# It's going to be ama-a-a-zing

# It's going to be amazing

# It's going to be ama-a-a-zing

# It's going to be amazing

RAPS: # Uh! Now listen up cos this is something amazing

# A chance for everyone to be a part of something great

# I'll send the film out to all the best casting agents

# Perform at arts colleges, me centre stage

# Showing off dance moves to cool grooves and backdrops

# With cool girls and cool dudes as my backing dancers

# Doin' my routine,

# Something real, I can smell, touch and almost livin' the dream

# This is something amazing

# Love to look at faces

# Filled with smiles and complete elation

# All in together now designing a tea towel

# Happily used in kitchens all around town

# It'll be a record of our time here together

# And moment in time captured on cloth forever

# Reminiscing to a fine work of art

# Something amazing

# This is proper laughs

# It's going to be a topic in every classroom

# A chance for kids to know what goes on in the staff room

# The ultimate secrets

# Is Nunn's middle name Vivian?

# Does Mr Harris pick his nose and eat it? Ew!

# When no-one's looking, they'll tell stories round the campfire

# Where we learn Mr Bell's a vampire.

# Everyone can join me, support me

# It's going to be amazing Indeed. #

Oh, Nero.

All of those people joyously celebrating their school.

It could be even better than tea towels.

Let's do it.

Yes!

It has to be good, though, miss. OK?

Rehearsals, people on props, costumes,

-a helicopter for aerial shots.

-Oh!

Remember the state of the budget, Helena. We can't afford this.

Crispin...

..I know that you were disappointed today.

So, I'm going to make you Nero's staff liaison.

So that you can really be at the centre of making this happen.

Pleasure to have you on board, sir.

Wonderful.

Why don't we cancel school altogether while we're about it?

What a great idea.

Cancel lessons for the whole week, miss.

Really get people working together.

Bold.

You are working together already.

HE SIGHS

The film is called Everything Is Changing,

so the music starts, yeah? A deserted playground.

MUSIC: Changing by Sigma

Follow me.

Through the corridors,

classrooms, crowds of kids,

and everyone follows me, like the Pied Piper from, like, history.

To music, to science. Everywhere we go, more kids cheer.

Into the hall, epic dance routines, dazzling lights,

then out through the canteen.

The crowds get bigger and bigger and they lift me up in their arms

and carry me out onto the field.

So...what do you think?

I'm worried the crowd won't be able to lift your massive

head off the floor.

The circus has got to have a ringmaster, Pole.

Hm. Anyway, Katie, you are on choreography.

This dance is celebrating a very special person.

I ain't doing whatever you say, Nero Johnson.

-Why her and not us?

-Yeah!

We're great at moving about and that.

Fine. Fleur, Eleesha, choreography.

What? I'm not NOT doing something just cos you say not, Nero Johnson.

Fine, you are all on choreography, then. Polly, lighting.

-I have to revise!

-Oh, come on, Poles!

You are the only one that knows how to programme that lighting board.

Also, you are brilliant and we really love you.

Fine!

What about me, boss man?

I've got a extra special job for you.

-Come on. My man!

-Hello!

Oh, drop it, Owen. It's not all about you.

Yes...

AS A WOMAN: ..hello.

I have reports of unlicensed child performers at Elmsmere school.

What, no! You can't just log it.

AS SELF: This is an appalling breach of every rule in the book.

Hello?

So, you want us to cut the letters out of wood...

..then paint them, and then put them on the stage?

As a backdrop. That's right.

Won't they be a bit small?

No! You are... You're obviously going to make them bigger than that.

Like six feet high.

-Don't let me down, guys.

-Hey!

When have I ever let you down,

apart from the times that I've let you down? We have got this.

-Cup of tea?

-Yes.

What sort of library is?

I'm right by flipping G and there is nothing on geography.

That's because you're in fiction.

The geography books begin...

..at 900.

What?! All them? On geography?

There's only about 12 countries.

196, currently.

That's ridiculous.

-Over a bit.

-OK.

-Nearly there, yeah.

Yeah. Right, down.

We did it.

And not a single problem.

HE CLEARS THROAT

Yeah, well apart from nearly cutting your hand off.

Where's the paper with the design on it?

You had it.

No. The only paper I had was the bit I used to mop up the tea

that you spilt.

That was it, you idiot!

Do you remember what it said?

Maybe we just got lucky and unpacked them in the right order.

"Wee on art." It can't have been that.

What now?

-Cup of tea?

-Yes.

No-one wees on art.

Sorry, the library is closed during filming.

But I need to study.

I'm three minutes late starting flood plains.

-Hi!

-What's he doing in there?

We are close to pupils, not to staff.

-Good day!

-How am I going to study?

Oi! Have you finished them letters?

We have to do choreographing all about them.

Relax, they're on the stage.

"Wee on art"?

We ain't dancing about wee paintings. That's disgusting.

You must have put them out wrong.

It's a dance about a special person, Nero said.

Fleur is in there now trying to sort them out.

Uh, guys...

"Rate Owen."

Nero told you to be nice to him.

I ain't doing a dance about my ex.

We have to.

Look at it this way, you can

express all of your feelings through the medium of dance.

It's locked.

Hey, what are you up to?

You were so brilliant at covering art the other day,

we thought we would come back and do some more tea towel faces.

Tea towels off. It's a film now, apparently.

Until they come up with some other way to mess us about.

So much for spying on the staff room.

It's just another one of your stupid lies, Spamber,

like self-driving cars or blue cheese.

You know those are real things, right?

And I ain't lying.

That hole goes straight through to the staff room.

Think of all the amazing dirt we can get from the teachers.

Eww!

Who wants dirty teacher dirt? That's disgusting.

She thinks it is real dirt.

So, it's a bit rough.

And a bit weird.

Well, we didn't get much time, thanks to some people.

Eli Grant.

-Can we just get on with it?

-OK.

It's quite personal, all right.

Been quite hard for me.

MUSIC: Changing by Sigma

"Rate Owen". Thanks, mate.

THEY SOB

MUSIC STOPS

What's that?

Our Owen tribute. Didn't you like it?

ALL SPEAK AT SAME TIME

-This is raw and real.

-For starters, that's not even the right troupe.

-We have a blue...

-The flower bit worked, didn't I?

Hello!

"Team Nero". That's what it said.

Oh, that makes more sense.

Yes, team Nero. And then spotlight.

Polly, spotlight.

Polly!

I'm reading about isobars.

Come on, people.

Dancing scouts, missed lighting cues.

This is not good enough.

We only get one crack at this film bouncing us to stardom.

Bouncing YOU to stardom, you mean.

All I want to do is study isobars for 10 minutes,

but, no, today is Nero Johnson day, like every other day.

Polly...

You're an overbearing, self-aggrandizing,

self-important dictator, Nero Johnson!

Polly.

Problems, Johnson.

RAPS: # G-g-g-get

# I don't get it

# I don't get any credit

# And I get it in the neck Like why?

# Polly want to try to kill my vibe

# And hide all the time

# What more does she want from the kid?

# I got them off lessons, quick

# Just to give them a taste of what's happening here

# And this is the thanks that I get? Nah!

# Now they want to mess around and chat

# Not take it serious You know there'll be laughter

# I mean laughing at not laughing with

# And that's not what I'm after If it stays this way rate

# Just accept your fate and I'm scared what will happen after

# In other words, it's clear as day

# It's going to be a disaster!

# A disaster

# Straight disaster

# It's going, it's going, it's going, it's going, it's gone

# Where did it come from? Not what we want

# Not on my watch watch, watch

# Nah, stop, stop, stop!

# Or it's going to be a disaster

-SINGS:

-# I thought this was gonna be easy

# Just redo a test

# But I've got to do a whole new one cos of grumpy Nunn

# This isn't fair

# Haven't even revised yet ecosystems, glaciation,

# Climate change, the population

# When Nero's acting a fool again

# The bickering has my eyebrows fidgeting

# And my eyelash flickering

# More lines on my brow than the lines that I gave in detention

# This whole dance is ridiculous

# And not to mention Nero's attitude is offensive

# Overbearing? I'm over caring

# If this goes wrong, it's not my problem

# Not my project, not my contest

# It's Goodman's fault She'll look a hot mess

# Disaster for her, for me a success

# A fantastic success

# And that's what I'm after

# Not mine, it's Goodman's disaster

# If I don't fix up and look sharper

# It's going to be a disaster. #

Everyone walked out.

It's like they don't want it to be any good.

You think always right? I'm an overbearing...

whatsit.

I think you want to make a good video.

I just wonder if there is a way that's...fun for everyone.

Tell me what books Nunn's reading.

And break the code of the librarian?

The sacred bond between borrower and borrowee?

Are you mad?

I'm a desperate student who's running out of revision time.

Look at my plan! Look at it!

Ugh!

Your schedule is all over the place.

Exactly. So tell me what books has he been reading?

I'll tell you what books I've been reading.

All of them. With lessons cancelled, I've had all the time in the world.

Oi, book nerd. 10 quid to finish those questions for me.

A librarian never interferes with the learning journey.

Oh, not even to escape detention?

You monster.

You will never break me!

So, the tea towel thing is back on?

Oh, yeah. Positive.

It's a perfectly logical reason why

we'd want to go back into the art room.

All right, then.

We're in.

All right, Polly? Still doing all brain things with your mind?

This is going right to the wire.

At least I've got this morning, two hours of uninterrupted study.

Before we start, I just want to say,

I've been a total edge.

I get it. This ain't about me.

It's about all of us.

What's going on?

Looks as if he's apologising.

So, I've rearranged some things. Owen.

New Era, new plan.

We can delay filming and you can tell me what we're going to do.

-Then we can rehearse all morning, you know?

-No.

No! No!

Behold, the amazing secrets of the staff room.

The tops of people's heads.

If I wanted to look down at the tops of people's heads

I'd just look down at you munchkins.

I thought you would be able to hear them.

I can't even see anything.

Where is your glasses lens?

Here. Ow!

Oh, no.

It's in the sugar bowl.

Polly, isn't this what you wanted?

-For everyone to be involved.

-We don't want to be involved. I mean...

..it was great the way it was.

The video should be all about you.

I mean, you're amazing, right?

I don't know.

Let's just do what you planned. Right now.

OK, we will do what we planned. Let's get set up rehearsal.

No, let's just go for it. Energy!

Just get it filmed and move on.

-OK.

-Looks like you got me just in time, Crispin.

I can't wait to see this.

Me neither.

You heard the lady.

Come on.

MUSIC: Changing by Sigma

LIP-SYNCS: # Held down, heavy now Livin' in the same town

# Tryin' to find something new

# Broken picture frame

# I've been frozen in Tryin' to find a better view

# This ain't real, this ain't cool

# This ain't what I signed up to

# This ain't right, it's no good

# No good, oh

# Everything is changing

# And I've been here for too long

# Going through the same... #

Cut! Owen!

It's all gone horribly wrong.

Yes, it has rather, hasn't it?

We are going to get caught.

Chewing gum on string, gum sticks to lens, pull it up, easy.

Did you know there are four different types of coastal erosion?

Hydraulic, abrasive, attritional,

by solution.

And don't get me started on algal-cut reefs.

A bit rude.

OK, nobody panic.

But...the lens is gone.

Oh! I'm going to spend the rest of my life reading one side of a book.

I can't hear nothing neither.

Great! First my eyes, now her eyes ears.

-My ears?

-Nero's film. The teachers must have all gone to help.

I get a feeling I'm not going to like where this is going.

Which means, we could sneak into the staff room and get it.

And there it is.

All right?

-IN DEEP VOICE:

-Uh...yeah.

You?

Hm.

HE GAGS

HE COUGHS

-He's choking!

-We should do something.

HE COUGHS

On the other hand, it's Mr Nunn.

SHE SIGHS

-What was that?

-I don't know. A bee?

And what are you lot all doing here?

We heard choking and being the caring people that we are, we

came in to see if we could help.

Very likely, I don't think so.

Nice going, Spamber.

So, this is what you meant

when you said we could get loads of dirt from the teachers.

Ew!

Has anyone got one of those tea towels?

Get me out of here!

You'll be out in a sec.

OK, maybe a little longer.

Aw! You are happy we are still friends.

You have five seconds to get me out of here.

Five seconds!

Stand back, guys.

I've got this.

HE GRUNTS

Oh!

Morgan, too scared to face me, hey?

Well, your mark is just like you.

One hollow zero.

Hang on, if Polly didn't take the new test and she doesn't get

a re-mark, doesn't that mean her original result still stands?

Mm-hm.

I believe that Nero is right, Graham.

What?

But!

I learned geography for this.

Excellent, you can teach it all term.

Eh?

You still have to get me out of here!

I was right to begin with, Crispin.

You should be in charge.

Time for a good, long break.

Well.

If you are sure.

Is that Mrs Goodman?

You can direct all inquiries to me, I'm in charge.

I see.

We had a report from the Council.

A call about unlicensed child performers.

Oh, well, I think you can let that go now.

I'm afraid I can't. The caller was very insistent.

Now, this could result in a fine or possibly even a court appearance.

Now, did you say that you were in charge?

# Can't live with 'em

# And you can't kick 'em out

# When they're up they rub it in your face

-# Kick you when you're down

-But what no-one understands them

-# You know what they're on about

-Always gonna be around

# Gotta find a common ground

# If you know so much about me

# Where do I go from here?

# If you see 'em every day

# You can never get away

# Only time that you're the boss? 4 o'clock. #