0:00:08 > 0:00:10Ludo, out.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12- Come on, please.- Out.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14The piano's right there and I was getting...
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Are you listening?! Oi! Come on!
0:00:15 > 0:00:17Get here!
0:00:19 > 0:00:22BOYS JEER
0:00:22 > 0:00:23This way - now.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29How are you feeling about this, Ludo?
0:00:33 > 0:00:34Are you OK?
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Are you going to talk to me today, or...?
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Do you know it's very rude to ignore people?
0:00:55 > 0:00:57PHONE VIBRATES
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Why did you do that, Ludo?
0:01:19 > 0:01:22You know, it's very rude to ignore people.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30THEY WHISPER
0:01:30 > 0:01:32SHE LAUGHS
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Stop it!
0:01:34 > 0:01:35Mum.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39Mum.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41SHE LAUGHS
0:01:41 > 0:01:42No!
0:01:44 > 0:01:48MUSIC: Jackson Cage by Bruce Springsteen
0:01:59 > 0:02:02# Driving home she grabs something to eat
0:02:02 > 0:02:05# Turns a corner and drives down her street
0:02:05 > 0:02:09# Into a row of houses she just melts away
0:02:09 > 0:02:12# Like the scenery in another man's play
0:02:12 > 0:02:15# Into a house where the blinds are closed
0:02:15 > 0:02:19# To keep from seeing things she don't wanna know
0:02:19 > 0:02:22# She pulls the blinds and looks out on the street
0:02:22 > 0:02:25# The cool of the night takes the edge off the heat... #
0:02:27 > 0:02:29MUSIC CLICKS OFF
0:02:30 > 0:02:34HE PLAYS A GENTLE TUNE
0:03:30 > 0:03:33- Sorry.- That's amazing, where did you learn to play like that?
0:03:33 > 0:03:35My dad taught me.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Oi! Ludo, wait!
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Please, Miss, I really don't want to get expelled.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45Look, I won't tell Mrs Jenkins.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48If you promise to play like that in our next session.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Yeah?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04All right?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Can you try this one for me?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- What is it?- It's my favourite song.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Arms out, please. Thank you.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37MUSIC CONTINUES
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Now turn around, please.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Thank you. Arms at the side, please.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Arms out, please.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Arms out, please.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Turn around, please.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Thank you.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Lud, all right, bud?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45God, I missed you, boy.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Hiya, babe. All right?
0:05:46 > 0:05:50- Shane!- What's the matter? - Back to your seat, Cooper.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Right. Come and sit down.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- All right?- Yeah.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00God, look at you.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Shooting up now, aren't you?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06You're getting as big as me now!
0:06:06 > 0:06:07You've got to laugh.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14So... How's school? All right?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Yeah. Yeah, it's been good.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- Lessons are boring, but...- Yeah?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25How's your mam, all right?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29She's OK, yeah.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30- You looking after her?- Yeah.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Aye, good boy.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Good boy.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37So, what's she been up to, then?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Hanging around with her boyfriend.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49But it'll be just like it used to, when you're out.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53You and Mum, you can take me bike riding.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57- We can go to the cinema.- Yeah. - We can carry on piano lessons.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Yeah, we can.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Um... Look, I...
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I've got something to tell you, all right, bud.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11I didn't get parole this time.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- You promised.- I'm sorry. - You said two weeks!
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Don't be like that. Lud! Lud! It's six months, Lud.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17They said I can try again.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Lud! Don't walk away, man.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Lud! Come here! Jen!
0:07:37 > 0:07:39HE RESUMES PLAYING
0:07:43 > 0:07:45PHONE VIBRATES
0:07:49 > 0:07:52PHONE VIBRATES
0:07:58 > 0:08:00PHONE VIBRATES
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Why does he keep ringing you?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Just...
0:08:08 > 0:08:09carry on playing.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42No, stop it!
0:08:48 > 0:08:51It's not on. What about me? You've got responsibilities to me,
0:08:51 > 0:08:55and us as well, and nothing's getting done. I'm not having it.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56No, I'm not having it.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Are you listening to me? I'm not having it!
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- I'm sorry...- Now, shut up and just get in the car.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Have they forgotten the bloody eggs?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Do me a favour, love, go back in and tell them, will you?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Don't ignore me. Go!
0:09:15 > 0:09:18CAR DRIVES OFF
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Are you going to play anything today, or...?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Why do you stay with her?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57To the end, Ludo, please.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08INAUDIBLE SPEECH
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Right.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20OK, she said no to this Friday's concert.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22But if you keep practising, then...
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- Why bother?!- ..we've got plenty of time for the next...
0:10:30 > 0:10:32MOTHER GIGGLES
0:10:44 > 0:10:46HE SOBS
0:11:11 > 0:11:15- Ludo's on the piano.- What? - He's trying to play in our concert.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18- Ludo, get down off that stage! - Give him a chance.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- Get him down off there.- Ssh!
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Ssh! Just listen to him play.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25I don't want to listen to him play.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Ssh!
0:11:29 > 0:11:31- Get him off!- What's he doing?
0:11:31 > 0:11:32LAUGHTER
0:11:32 > 0:11:34You're making a fool of yourself.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Get off the stage!
0:11:37 > 0:11:40AUDIENCE AND CHILDREN CLAMOUR
0:11:53 > 0:11:55AUDIENCE QUIETENS DOWN
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Even though it's summer holidays,
0:14:57 > 0:15:01Hawthorn School in Pontypridd is a hive of activity.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06A production team from the TV scheme It's My Shout has descended
0:15:06 > 0:15:08for the filming of Ludo.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10The first draft probably took me about...
0:15:10 > 0:15:13only a couple of weeks, to be honest. I scribbled some notes down
0:15:13 > 0:15:18over an hour, and then I typed it up over a couple of weeks
0:15:18 > 0:15:19and then just submitted it.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22In a way, I suppose every writer has part of themselves
0:15:22 > 0:15:23in everything they write.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25So when I grew up, I grew up on a council estate,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28it had, like, single-parent families,
0:15:28 > 0:15:32it had dads that weren't around, so it's got those elements within it.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34OK, so the character I'm playing is Ludo.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37He's a 13-year-old boy,
0:15:37 > 0:15:38and he's a bit of a troublemaker.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Yeah, he gets into fights at school,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43usually because he's getting bullied.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Ludo stays happy playing piano.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49He finds it very soothing to play.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Once me and my brother entered this talent show.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58He was, like, playing the piano, I was obviously singing.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Yeah, we came third in the end.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02And it was, like, our first time doing it.
0:16:02 > 0:16:07Come on, Jack. Let's rock this joint! Hit it!
0:16:07 > 0:16:10'We were called the White Brothers.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14'I played piano, usually Jerry Lee Lewis. And my brother sang it.'
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Although the crew made full use of the school location,
0:16:19 > 0:16:22and even shot the prison scene in one of the classrooms,
0:16:22 > 0:16:26the hall was a million miles from the kind of location
0:16:26 > 0:16:28imagined in the original script.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Like, the first draft, it was set in the Millennium Centre,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34there was, like, a thousand extras. It was this big performance.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37When we come to Hawthorn High School and saw the battered old piano
0:16:37 > 0:16:42that we've used, but it's still got character,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44and it kind of matches who Ludo is.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Having so many people in the hall
0:16:46 > 0:16:48was obviously a big challenge,
0:16:48 > 0:16:50mainly just to cover everybody
0:16:50 > 0:16:53and get reactions from different characters.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55There's not a lot of dialogue within the scene.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58So it was important to get the reactions
0:16:58 > 0:17:03and to tell the story through those reaction shots.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06It's just that moment, because he just sits on the piano,
0:17:06 > 0:17:09he's getting bullied, even the teacher's shouting at him to get off the stage.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11And then when he starts playing,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14everyone's just quiet and everyone just watches it.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Filming the piano being played
0:17:16 > 0:17:19presented a challenge for the sound department.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22We recorded the piano in the BBC.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24The reason for that is because,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27obviously, the environment we were in in the school hall,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30with people in the background speaking and all that,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32we don't want to pick that up on the track.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35So, we record in a different environment
0:17:35 > 0:17:38where it's a lot quieter, and it's better,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40and we can play it back, then.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43On the Monday, I went into Roath Lock,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45there were about five different mics everywhere.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47There was... I don't know how many it was.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51There were two in the piano, one a bit back a bit,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54and they wanted sound from all different areas.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56And I played about three times.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58I think they picked the best one.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02The film not only gave Jack White his first leading role,
0:18:02 > 0:18:05but also revealed his talents as a musician.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Jack White, the actor who's playing Ludo, as soon as we saw him,
0:18:09 > 0:18:12I liked... His look was good, his mannerisms were nice,
0:18:12 > 0:18:14and he's a really nice kid as well.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16But it wasn't until the second audition
0:18:16 > 0:18:17that he actually played piano.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19And as soon as he played, that was it then -
0:18:19 > 0:18:21we were like, "Wow, this kid is special."
0:18:21 > 0:18:23The actor we were looking for to play Ludo,
0:18:23 > 0:18:25we were looking for someone who was going to be very natural.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30The piano playing was kind of a massive bonus when we found Jack.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34The piece when Ludo is discovered by Mrs Steele
0:18:34 > 0:18:39was Jack's own composition, which was really helpful,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41because we were struggling to retain the rights
0:18:41 > 0:18:46to other tracks by Einaudi, and Jack volunteered his own work,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48which obviously we don't need the rights for.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52I'm more of a listener-learner on piano.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55I usually listen to a song, and I play off that.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00I can read music, I just look at the music just as a basic structure.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02I would play little bits to him.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04And he would love it, and he'd want to have a go,
0:19:04 > 0:19:07so I'd let him have a go on the piano.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10And I just knew straightaway, I'm thinking, "Hang on a minute,
0:19:10 > 0:19:14"you're so little yet you can play a little bit of classical, like that."
0:19:14 > 0:19:17The crew actually came outside quite tearful,
0:19:17 > 0:19:19because they'd seen his journey as well
0:19:19 > 0:19:20and they've got the whole journey
0:19:20 > 0:19:23of getting all that cast and crew and everything together
0:19:23 > 0:19:25and to have that one moment where he's amazing and he plays
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and everyone's just completely still and silent, just watching him,
0:19:28 > 0:19:29I think it's quite special.