Script

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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 keptSo 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:

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SCENE 2ARGUMENT – 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.

GIRLOh so that’s it then is it? The dry store is empty so we give up and

starve

BOYSo what exactly are you suggesting?

GIRLI 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

BOY2There’s nothing for miles we should go back and check the town, it’s

our only shot

GIRLWe are alone BOY2 there’s not going to be new food supplies

BOYThere’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

BOY2I say we all go, that way we can carry enough food back for the

winter

BOY

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You’re mad; Alex the forest goes on for miles we might not be back before dark

ALEXThen 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.

WOMANThey’re leaving the building

MANHow many?

WOMANAll of them, he’s leading them towards the forest

MANExcellent, wait until they are out of view.

They still think they’re alone

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