ocial Media is arguably on of, if not, the most powerful technology ever to exist. Everyone is connected to anyone, and as an extremely accesible resource, social networks have grown to become a huge industry. But is this more good that it's worth..?
PlugIt is the latest internet craze, and is a system of annonymous profiles where people share content but never get proper credit, as their identities cannot be revealed. The more "Plugs" your video, photos, blogs etc. gets, the more popular it becomes. The content has been altered to work inside the brain, projecting the images difectly into your mind via hypnosis, in orer to keep up with the changing times and technologies. The creators have set up the new technology, so as, if you are "online" and do not get a certain amount of "Plugs" you profile is whiped, along with you life, in order kill those who are not, in their opinion worthy, and so that they can take over the world, and start afresh, with a new, elite race of people. However, the sytem has a flaw, and finite timing and luck mean a few people remain unharmed, but knowing not what has caused the society they live in to be erased. These people are brought together- prehaps by fate- to solve the mystery of the media and to try to save the world from being erased completely.
The whole film is based around connections and links, and how a series of events, controled by Industries, can lead to unusual, and often drastic circumstances.
The plot revolves around a group of survivors, some members know each other from the previous world, others never knew each other before. Due to the circumstances, these survivors have banded together to try and solve out the reason behind the end of the world as they knew it.
Our film opening and Todorovs' Theory:
Todorov's Theory:
Todorov stated that a plot can be summarised into five stages these are:
- An Initial state of Equilibrium
- Disruption of the Equilibrium by an inciting incident
- Recognition of the Equilibrium
- The action in which tehEquilibrium is trying to be regained
- The return of the Equilibrium point
Unlike the Theory that Todorov has stated, we decide to go against this rule, and start with the happenings after the stimulus point, at which the inciting incident has already happened, so you go straight into the third stage, where the disruption has been recognised. This will result in drawing in the audience, and creating an enigma, which is what we are aiming to do in our opening, as they have not witnessed what has happend, and so do not know what has happened.
We would then cut back to before the inciting incident has happened, and show the audience the events leading up to the opening point, and then show the ennding, which would be the discovery of what happened, and although there is an answer to what happened, the equilibrium point is never truly reached again, as all of their loved ones, friends etc. have gone, and come back, which, due to the lack of a "happy ending" will make the audience question their actions, and will have a shock factor, which we are aiming for.
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