Post-Apocalyptic Film Synopsis
Following a global economic meltdown, hostilities mount between the East and the West culminating in a Second Cold War. The Asian superpowers severed trade links to the UN resulting in frozen foreign assets and dispute over goods and oil shortages. In the global turmoil, sporadic cases of societal breakdown have cropped up, even to the extent of pockets of civilisation secluding themselves from others. Rule of law has been stripped of all credibility as people conflict for diminishing resources in a world where money is becoming more and more ethereal every day.
With the world already on the brink, a localised explosion occurs in an unamed urban environment outside a metropolis, causing the surrounding suburban areas to be quarantined from the rest of the country, with people still inside. This immediately sets off an even more intense political climate, gripping people with angst and confining them to their homes. A journalist bereft of his family, searches hopelessly for reclamation when he finds a wandering soul who takes him under his wing after recognising the journalist’s tenuous mental state. The two then plan to escape the quarantine but what they soon unravel is a myriad of lies, corruption and insanity.
The nature of the shots and content will be similar to Mad Max, The Road or the Fallout game series. The audience will obviously be mainly male, due to the more violent, desolate and dangerous nature of the film’s world. To widen audience appeal, we will show some action and more light hearted, comedic elements (this is common in almost all film trailers).
We will create a grim looking world by using grey scale filters and using locations that are abandoned with no cars, people or any sign of life. This is common across the post-apocalyptic genre.
