Script

Copyright (C) 2011 - Simon Tye.   All rights reserved. 


                   

Evolution

“Life is just a drop in the ocean.”
FADE IN:
 
Title Sequence

EXT. OUTERSPACE 

Black and white view of space, nothing but stars, 3D titles (EVOLUTION) float past like space debris. Camera stays static and titles float from middle right across to top left.
Camera pans down.
Duration: 00:00:12:00

TRACK DOWN
Earth comes into partial shot, bottom right of frame, showing one quarter of the globe. A single white drop appears from the top right of frame and begins its descent to the ocean of Earth getting further away (smaller) it makes impact with Earth.

Duration: 00:00:04:12 
 
CUT


EXT.EARTH SKY - DAY

Drop falls through the sky, clouds move from bottom to top of screen to show falling. Camera maintains speed with the drop (no motion blur on drop).

Duration: 00:00:06:07

TRACK DOWN
 

INT. EARTH OCEAN 

Drop hits the ocean, camera still follows, movement slows down on impact and drop meets with a second circular amoeba cell in the ocean.

Duration: 00:00:07:19

FLASH TRANSITION

Tadpole/Fish is swimming from left to right, camera follows, background moves with. Fish morphs into bigger fish, and bigger fish. Eventually becoming a lizard or crocodile type shape.

Duration: 00:00:09:06 
- for three stage morph = 3 second animation per morph stage.

TRACK RIGHT


CUT



EXT. BEACH - DAY

Crocodile climbs out of water on to a beach, and goes behind a bush.

Duration: 00:00:05:20


CUT

 
Crocodile begins to climb a tree.
 
EXT. JUNGLE – DAY 
Camera halts at base of tree and follows the hands of the dinosaur up the tree (dinosaur on opposite side of tree to camera). One consistent shot until top of tree.

Duration: 00:00:14:02

TRACK UP
 

EXT. JUNGLE - SUNSET

At the top, a Gorilla emerges waving arms.

Duration: 00:00:06:05


ZOOM OUT

camera zooms a long way out to show landscape with the tree/monkey in the bottom left of shot, monkey throws a rock from the tree.

Duration: 00:00:08:04
CUT


EXT. DESERT - DAY

Camera follows the rock travelling through the air.

Duration: 00:00:05:00

CUT


EXT. DESERT - DAY
Caveman is stood in the desert unaware of the rock, the rock falls from top left and hits the Caveman in the head, causing him to look around angrily. 

Duration: 00:00:12:02


CUT
 

EXT. VARIOUS REPEATING LOCATIONS – DAY AND NIGHT
As the Caveman runs (sped up background movement to indicate passing time)

CUT

he throws his spear. camera follows the spear. 


Duration: 00:00:06:18





EXT. SKY - DAY to NIGHT

The spear flies through the day and night. Slowly morphing into the shape of a plane.

Duration: 00:00:10:23


CUT


EXT. CITY SKYLINE - DAY

plane goes behind buildings over head of a man stood at a bus stop,  Camera halts at the middle of this shot. And then zooms in to man’s face.Then Eye. 

REVISED -

Plane hits buildings in 9/11 resemblence. Cut to scene close up man smoking. Smoke fills screen as way of cross fading scene. 

Duration: 00:00:13:05




INT. FATMAN’S HOUSE 

Then back out to face to reveal the fat man, show fat man sat on couch struggling to reach remote. Man gets remote and changes channel. Camera pans around to the point of view of fat man and zooms to fit the screen of the tv which displays fuzz until the scene ends on a final click and the whole reel can be looped.

Channel flick includes credits.

Duration: 00:00:010:02

FADE OUT/LOOP REEL