Hey guys,
Sorry I haven't posted in like a month even there is not many of you still I love you all for looking!
Anyway, here's me and my friend, Clare's film proposal. It's gonna be a post apocalyptic meets mockumentary film.
I can't wait to start filming!
Enjoy reading it and hope you guys have an amazing week!
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Media film proposal
Genre: Post-apocalyptic meets
mockumentary.
Length: 2 hours
(approximately)
Target audience: late teens
to mid-fourties. Middle to higher class. Interested in philosophy and curiosity
about structure of new societies.
Main Characters
Nathan – brother to Joseph,
older than him.
Joseph – brother to Nathan,
younger than him.
Unnamed baby – found by Nathan
and Joseph in a secluded part of the work zone.
Ruby – officer of one of the
work zones, looks after the baby whilst Nathan and Joseph are in the work zone.
Technique
Camerawork: a mix of handheld
and Steadicam, this would give a documentary/homespun feel to the film. This
would help to create a personal and realistic edge to the film, as the main
benefit of using these techniques is that you nearly get point-of-view shots,
not bird’s eye view shots.
Synopsis
The chaos of the apocalypse
is shown by people running, screaming – this is then mixed with news reports of
warnings, political speeches and charts that overall show a dangerously high
increase of an “unknown” substance. There is then a blackout and a narrator
talking about people being taken in and experimented on with radioactive and
nuclear substances, the aims of these experiments, the controversy of the
concepts etc etc.
Shown to be six months after
the apocalypse or “disaster”, the two brothers, Nathan and Joseph, are shown to
be hiding in a WW2 bunker, as they would already have built in protection.
Tattoos are shown on their arms, which suggest that the brothers are part of a
protester group – probably against the experiments that are suggested to be the
cause of the apocalypse. Nathan is shown to be aware of what is happening
around him, he constantly suggests leaving the bunker – this contrasts against
Joseph, who is shown to still be very shaken by the apocalypse, nearing
paranoia (possibly having post traumatic stress disorder).
Having
been hiding in the bunker for six months, Nathan and Joseph have remained
unaware about the creation of the work and life zones. The work zones are seen
to be the debris left over from the apocalypse, it is seen to be the survivor’s
job to clear it up to make for more life zones as there is a breeding program
that has recently started. And so, the brothers do not know that their bunker,
which is more or less in good condition, is part of the work zone and is
planned to be destroyed.
A
bulldozer starts to plough through the bunker’s thick exterior, the noise wakes
up the brothers, who are then panicked because the bulldozer has cut off the
electricity supply, therefore there is no lighting. They eventually find the
door and escape, shocked to find nearly all the buildings that used to surround
the bunker are now mostly turned to rubble. They hide for the night underneath
an old bus shelter. The next day, they see what seem to be workers walking into
the wasteland, picking up rubble and taking pieces back to a pile – slowly
clearing up the destruction.
Since
they look to be wearing normal scruffy clothes, the brothers join them and
successfully blend in, copying the same actions as the workers. There, they
notice the officers that watch the workers to make sure they behave
appropriately e.g. not being rude to the officers (they constantly use the fact
that they are being given a second chance to make things right, in their minds,
this means a completely clean slate). Nathan and Joseph also notice that some
who do not behave to the informally set rules are taken away for gossiped-about
analysis, although the definition of the analysis is not said, there is a sense
of fear and tension whenever this topic is raised amongst the workers and the
officers (this suggests that there is a higher power than the officers and that
the officers themselves are scared of the analysis).
A
week later, keeping relatively quiet amongst the group of workers, sneaking out
to stay at the bus shelter so the group of officers do not notice two extra
people using precious supplies. The brothers hear crying from behind the bus
shelter, similar to a baby’s. The brothers are initially cautious, as they
think it could be a trick by one of the officers to catch any stray survivors
for “analysis”. Eventually, the brothers find the source of the crying: a baby.
It is wrapped in a blanket, the baby itself is relatively clean – Nathan
suggests that this could mean that the baby wasn’t stranded too long ago, so
maybe the baby’s parents are workers and/or officers.
Ruby,
an officer, has been following the brothers for the past week, as she had
recognised Joseph but not Nathan – she then bursts into the scene, pointing a
gun at the brothers, revealing that she has the same tattoo as the brothers on
her arm, this suggests that she was in the same group as the brothers. She then
sees the baby and puts the gun down, taking out a first aid kit from her jacket
and seeing if the baby is hurt.
She
is hostile towards the brothers, as she is somewhat shaken by seeing Joseph
(she does not reveal that she knows him, but glances between the two suggest as
such). She then explains to the brothers that she had to look after her
sister’s baby after the sister was killed during the apocalypse. She finally
reveals her name and agrees with the brothers that she will look after the baby
if the brothers tell her everything they can about the protesting group e.g. if
any of the members are still alive, if they believe in the cause anymore etc. She
tells them to look after the baby for one night whilst she gets supplies to
keep in a compartment in her office, whilst she is saying this she deliberately
avoids Joseph’s gaze. She then gives them her first aid kit and leaves the bus
shelter.
The
next night, Ruby comes back to the bus shelter, telling the brothers she has
the supplies in her office and asks them to cover her whilst she takes the baby
to her office. Halfway through the procedure, they are ambushed by some of the
officers suspicious of Ruby, trying to shoot them. Nathan is shot in the leg,
once they make it back to the office – Ruby and Joseph remove the bullets and
clean the wound – Nathan is too weak to make it back to the bus shelter and so
sleeps in the office with Ruby, Joseph and the baby.
The
next day, Joseph goes to clear up the work zone with the workers and
intentionally spreads the rumour of the protesting group making a comeback,
word spreads and he is arrested and taken in for “analysis”. He is then knocked
unconsciousness, seeing visions of operations and blood on operating tools.
Ruby then comes into the vision, talking to one of the other officers,
seemingly giving a reason to not be analysed. The analysis then stops
immediately, being stitched up. He then wakes up to see one of the other
officers at the end of his stretcher, asking him questions about what life was
like before the apocalypse, for no apparent reason. The unnamed officer is then
called away from the stretcher and Joseph walks around the hospital camp,
finding Ruby in a corner, emotionless. She starts to talk about her sister and
how she left her child for one moment, not being able to say anything else
about what happened to it – this suggests that the child died.
Joseph
then walks away, remembering Ruby never had a sister. Back to Nathan at the
office, he watches the baby sleeping, talking to himself about Joseph being
taken away, he seems to pretend that the baby is replying to his questions. The
unnamed officer then bursts into the office, it becomes clear that the officer
was called away from Joseph’s stretcher because of Nathan being heard talking
to himself. The officer then sees the baby and talks to Nathan about how the
baby is the officer’s property, seeing as there has yet to be any answers about
the baby’s biological parents.
Nathan
then tells the officer that he’s Joseph’s brother – the officer then, without a
word, walks him into his van, signalling to keep his head down past the armed
officers who have been alerted about an unlogged person in the zone. The van is
then stopped for checks, Ruby is the officer checking – she gives the all clear
and a note to Nathan saying that Joseph has got supplies and is going to sneak
into the life zones under another identity and that he has Nathan’s and the
baby’s fake information with him, instructing Nathan to meet Joseph at the back
of one of the life zone huts. The van drives on, going past some of the life
zone huts, showing workers protesting against the officers, shouting the slogan
shown in Nathan’s, Joseph’s and Ruby’s tattoo.
