LOCATION SCOUTING

SCRIPTING FINAL

NEWS BROADCAST

(over dinner scene)

Doctors and scientists remain to be perplexed by a new virus that continues to spread rapidly across the UK. Reported cases so far have identified teenagers as the sole victims, who suffer from a severe allergic reaction to skin to skin contact, resulting in a rash which appears to be highly contagious, and in some cases, fatal. Postmortem results are currently being awaited on the 12 known fatalities so far, but doctors caution the public to stay away from crowded spaces and to practise good hand hygiene, as the cause of the outbreak has not yet been identified.  

The World Health Organisation remains vigilant, with similar outbreaks being reported across Europe, the US, Canada and parts of Asia. Scientists continue to work on identifying the pathogen, and caution parents to keep children over 12 years old at home and isolated wherever possible. The government's emergency committee, Cobra, have met and are putting in place a response to the outbreak reaching pandemic levels.

Now over to our science correspondent, Michael Cliff, with more details... fade out

DIALOGUE 

(spoken by male protagonist) 

You know Michael, the one from Maths? He fell into someone at the park last night, have you heard from him? I called him, he didn’t call me back. what if he’s got it? Serves him right really, he was always pissing about in class.

SCRIPTING (first draft)

NEWS BROADCAST   

(over dinner scene)

Doctors and scientists are perplexed by a new virus that is rapidly spreading across mainland England and Wales. Teenagers appear to be suffering from a severe allergic reaction to human, skin to skin contact. This initial anaphylactic response is then followed by the sudden development of severe skin sensitivity. The most extraordinary manifestation of the allergic reaction is that it appears to be contagious.

 Doctors are struggling to treat their patients and over half the schools in England have been shut down in line with planning for a pandemic. This level of response to an outbreak has not been seen since the Bird Flu scare more than 70 years ago. Parents have been advised to not let their children out of the home at risk of spreading the infection. The virus was first seen with one teenager, referred to only as patient Joseph, and now has been seen in more than 140 different medical centres across the country.

Discussions are taking place to place the country in lockdown. Scientists from Germany, Switzerland and America have been testing cures in their labs however no result has been seen so far. There are worries about how this is going to affect teenagers education and healthcare. Mental health is also being effected as having no human contact has been found to have a profound effect on the mind.

DIALOGUE 

(spoken by male protagonist) 

Did you hear Kyle from my English class touched someone last night and he’s already not allowed to leave the house. I tried to go over there but his parents wouldn’t let me in.

They’ve literally trapped him in one room.

His little brother doesn’t understand why he isn’t allowed to go near him or why he isn’t allowed to eat with the family.

Imagine what that would be like, I think I’d go insane.

PROPS IDEAS

Magnetic Putty

A key aspect of how we will get our trailer to look futuristic and dystopian is use of new technology. We intend to create certain technology that is not real which will make it clear to the audience this is set in the future.
The main prop we need to plan is a scanner that students will use when walking into assembly. On the actors wrist we will use a Fitbit as that has the futuristic look we need. However the prop they scan against will be harder to create.

Our first idea was to get a black box and put a phone inside to shine a blue light. However we feel this would look very fake and cheap which could ruin the authenticity of the whole trailer.
Another idea was to use metallic putty to put over a phone as the blue light shines through. After researching more about metallic putty we realised this would not work.

Sophia, the robot. First robot to receive citizenship.

The final idea we have is to use an iPad. We have bought a wall mount for it and we will pre-record something to play on the screen. The video will be of the screen flashing which the actors will scan their wrists in time to. The video needs to look very futuristic to match the dystopian feel we aim for. An idea we have is for the screen to feature a pulse - like line that will jump when it is scanned. Also when it is scanned a voice similar to siri or alexa could say something. The idea of artificial intelligence taking over and having a mind of its own has been extremely popular lately, especially with the new technological advances such as Sophia the Robot. We could use this fear in our film by having the AI voice give demands or threats.