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Script
Scene 1
BLACK SCREEN
ALEX, teenage boy, unclean and scruffy, solemn due to basic living.
ALEX
When it happened there was a black out.
I waited for a sign, anything, but there was silence.
Until I found them, the survivors.
We were different, we were evolved
FADE IN:
Looking through a dirty window, a figure is lying on a bed asleep.
The shot enters the room and we can see the room is bare and
derelict. We slowly through a zoom shot.
I crave the life I had before the black out.
The lost souls who walked the earth alongside me,
But they exist only in our memories,
And so it is only our footprints that cover this earth now,
We thought we had time, an eternity of it,
But the thing with time is it can only be spent
Not kept
So when they took it from us there was nothing we could do,
But that wasn’t the only thing.
(Character opens his eyes after dialogue heard from next scene) –
lead into second voice over
BOY/GIRL, survivor, lives among other survivors, dirty and unclean
GIRL
(Angrily)
No we have a few tins that will hardly last us a week let alone the
winter
BOY
(Angrily)
Where do you expect to go we emptied the nearest dry store?
DISSOLVE TO:
2. 2
SCENE 2
ARGUMENT – DERELICT COMMUNAL ROOM – FILLED WITH OTHER SURVIVORS
A group of teenagers are sat in a derelict room surrounded by
blankets and old furniture and tins, indicating their simple life,
two main figures are stood in the centre of the room arguing, there
is little reaction from surrounding figures.
GIRL
Oh so that’s it then is it? The dry store is empty so we give up and
starve
BOY
So what exactly are you suggesting?
GIRL
I suggest we stop moping around like we have been for months and get
out and look for food supplies.
BOY2, fellow survivor, same description as others, sitting near the
two figures, decides to join discussion
BOY2
There’s nothing for miles we should go back and check the town, it’s
our only shot
GIRL
We are alone BOY2 there’s not going to be new food supplies
BOY
There’s nothing else out there
ALEX
(Loud/stern but hopeful, says as if certain, doesn’t seem amused by
argument)
Across the forest
(MORE)
Arguing stops, there is silence in the room, direction of everyone’s
eye line goes to Alex, who is sat at the edge of the room fidgeting
with a pocket watch.
There’s a warehouse, there will be food supplies there
BOY2
I say we all go, that way we can carry enough food back for the
winter
BOY
3. 3
You’re mad; Alex the forest goes on for miles we might not be back
before dark
ALEX
Then we better leave now
CUT TO SEQUENCE OF LEAVING SHOTS
SCENE 3
THE PHONE CALL – SURVEILLANCE CAMERA FOOTAGE – DAY
The teenagers exiting building, seen through surveillance camera
tracking movement cuts to wide angle shot of forest still through
surveillance camera, figures walking in to distance.
RADIO CRACKLING
WOMAN/MAN, disembodied voice, British accent/well-spoken/formal,
middle aged.
WOMAN
They’re leaving the building
MAN
How many?
WOMAN
All of them, he’s leading them towards the forest
MAN
Excellent, wait until they are out of view.
They still think they’re alone
