Initial Script

Here is the initial script that I have written for the voice over that will accompany the bus scene where the protagonists is sitting on the bus looking out the window and the audience sees the world through his eyes going by.

Look at it…another bright cold April day. It has always been another bright cold April day for as long as I can remember. That's not saying much, as after all… there’s no such thing as memory, well…no such thing anymore. 

The year is twenty twenty two…or  twenty twenty three…or  twenty twenty four? No one really knows. The years just…… life when on. 

There all getting ready for hate week now. You can’t see it, there is no banners… or poster …or advertisement but we all know. Those things… the banners and what not, where all removed during the “Great Freedom”. There’s stories, wonderful stories about people being happy. Large groups of people would together, just for the enjoyment of being with each other not for mid chant or appraisal. Those things that came after the “Great Freedom” and the government imposed on us.

The government has control of everything now, we all bow to them, we have no choice. There are four Ministries between which the government is divided. The Ministry of Truth, which concerns itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerns itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintains law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. Have I heard that before?

But we can’t talk or think about these matters, we are not allowed to, they know they always know. I should not have, I did not have, nothing was said. Forget what was said and then forget that you forgot what was said. 

That is how you stay alive here, that is how you remain sane.

I have used elements from the book "1984" but also built upon some of the ideas of my own to create this dystopian text that I believe has a greater sense of reality as it's not so far fetched as Orwell's text. It is a bit more grounded in the world we live in now but has some ominous tones.

After writing the initial script I have decided that I will take my coursework and combine it with the knowledge that I'm gaining within my examination unit studying post-modernism to create a short film that delves into some of the ideas of  a post-modern text using intertextuality, bricolage and pastiche.