Stella Rimington Performance

Yesterday we performed the Stella Rimington presentation that Richard and myself had written. The presentation was shown on a projector using a file I had created in flash with buttons to move between the different animations, images, text and sound which made up the presentation. A script was read out and acting was done mainly by Richard and Ben which added more depth to the production and allowed facts to be read out and presented to the audience verbally.

I think the presentation went quite well, especially concidering the limited time we had to create the whole thing. I am quite pleased with the animations I created as well as the overal presentation and script which I worked a lot on and feel it was quite successful. We were also able to make about £17 for charity (Breast Cancer) and the audience seemed to find it amusing.

Stella Rimmington Script

Narrator: Hello and welcome to our (production?) on Stella Rimington and other women in power over the past 20 years. We are MI6 from Nottingham Trent University Multimedia course. I am agent Chris The other agents here today are agents Richard, Emily, Adam and Ben.
As you may be aware, Stella Rimington attended this high school in 19?? untill 19?? and went on to eventually become the Director General of MI5 in 1992.
We have Agent Rimington herself with us today to tell you in more detail about her life and acheivements.
(Mission Impossible music plays. "Stella" walks on stage)
Narrator: Stella Rimington was born in South London in may 1935.Stella: I was born in 1935Narrator: Rimington moved with her family to Essex in 1939 due to the dangers of living in London during the second world war.Stella: When I was 4 we moved to EssexNarrator: ...before moving to cumbria and then to the Midlands when her fatehr got a job in Derbyshire.Stella: I attended Nottingham High School for Girls where I got a very sound, broad-based education. I particually enjoyed english which I went on to study at University.Narrator: Stella attended the University of Edinburgh where she met her future husband, John Rimington (who she had known from Nottingham).
Stella: Finishing my degree I studied archive administration at the University of Liverpool and began work as an archivist at the County Record Office in Worcester in 1959.Narrator: Stella married John Rimington in 1961 and moved back to London where she applied for a position at the India Office Library.Stella: I got the job. Then in 1956 John was offered an overseas posting as First Secretary for the British High commision in new delhi, India and we both moved down there in september.
Narrator: Stella was asked to assist one of the First Secretaries at the High Commission with his office work in 1967 after two years in Indea.Stella: I agreedNarrator: When she began she descovered he was the representative in India of the Brish Security Service (Mi5).Stella: I was shocked
Narrator: Stella was inspired by the suffragette movement which gave women the right to vote and led eventually to the possibilities of women having high power jobs such as Stella's.
Stella: I worked in the MI5 office for nearly two years before we returned to London in 1969.Narrator: Back in London Stella applied for a permanent position at MI5Stella: I worked in all three branches of the Security Service between 1969 and 1990; Counter espionage, counter subversion and counter terrorismNarrative: Stella and John seperated in 1984. Stella retained custody of their two daughters.Stella: I was juggling being an MI5 agent as well as being a full time mother!Stella: In 1990 I was promoted to one of the Services two deputy director general positions where i oversaw MI5s moved to Thames house. In 1991 I made a visit to Moscow to make the first friendly contact between the British intelligence services and our old enemies. When I came back I was made director general.

Stella Idea Development

I have started writing out a script for our Stella Rimington production. With the help of my group member Richard I have written a plan of ideas to break up the script so it is not just a boring timeline.

1. Pictures of Stella repeat on projection screen
2. Introduction animation plays
   
3. Narrator walks on stage
4. Narrator Introduces the group
5. Narrator Introduces Stella
6. Stella walks on stage in a secret agent way
7. Introduces herself (repeating Narrator - humor)
8. Born in war - inspired by suffragettes
   
9. Went to Nottingham Highschool for girl - got great education, especially in english and inspired her to go to university to continue her education, allowing her to progress in life to eventually become director general of MI5.
10. Juggling being full time mum (super mum) and DG of MI5 (animation reflecting this - humor)
11. Phone call, banter between father about picking children up.
12. Once she felt she had completed her duties as DG of MI5 she left.
13. M&S/BG group
14. Didn't want to resign to a stereotypical boring house wife after the excitement of MI5.
15. Successful writing carreer, two novels about female secret agents and an autobiography.
16. Other successful women in power - margerette thatcher. "M" character in Bond movies being played by female character after Rimington becoing DG of MI5.
17. Whats next for women of the future? When Stella was at school, female figures of power were unheard of. Just imagine what you young women could acheive in the future.