Images - Dystopia

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Dystopian Inspiration

I figured I'd include these because it'd be a fairly good idea to display the kind of feel I want to create for my episode. Though these aren't wholly achievable, since CGI and immense budgets aren't exactly available to someone in my shoes right now, I wanted to find some images to centre a narrative around. The destruction and devastation of a dystopian environment can be replicated, maybe not to this extent, but existing images such as these can offer me a good source of inspiration to do so.

 Whilst not preoccupied with ideas of the supernatural or other typically unsettling entities found in horror or pure sci-fi creations, I almost find the realness of this type of scenario more frightening. This horrific scenario could be a reality, and would most likely be in humanity's own self destruction and burn out; matters which I've found to worry much of the new generations.

 

(Blogger doesn't seem to want to let me post the images here, so I'll have to attach them in a separate post... )

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Creating Dystopia

http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/writing-dystopian-fiction-7-tips


Again, this article was also fascinating and immensely useful for what I'm creating. I got a lot of pointers from this, so much so that I feel I have a far better grasp as the how I'm going to approach creating an interesting scenario to film. Though written for purposes of a writer, the article also gave me many ideas for how exactly I should go about creating a unique 'dystopian style' in terms of a setting and the mise-en-scene. Below, I've listed a couple of points that I felt were worth recording to help me when I come to writing my own script and plotline:




- 'As you’re writing dystopian fiction, think about how to take current technologies and extrapolate. When you have a vision of what that might look like, ask yourself how it changes the society that does not yet exist.'


-  'In dystopian, a lot of times resolution of the central conflict comes in death'


- 'Let’s face it, utopia is a bore. As readers, we sense utopia as innately unachievable. Humans aren’t wired for stories without conflict, and perfect-world scenarios are a bigger lie than the leap of faith it takes to jump us into dystopian futures.'


- '...almost all dystopian fiction uses stark, depressing imagery within the prose.'


- 'How do you see the world differently and how can you express that through your characters without writing a diatribe on your beliefs? Therein lies the art of dystopian fiction'


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Millennial Research - What Concerns Them Most?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-10-most-important-issues-to-millennials


This article was particularly useful in giving me specific issues to address within my production. These are matters that are of great significance to my target audience, and having these as underlying themes to my content is sure to draw in more interest from them; as well as promoting awareness in other social categories. Here are those most relevant to my project:


- Large scale conflict and wars
- Government accountability and transparency, and corruption
- Social Justice
- Lack of political freedom and political instability


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Potential Locations?

I'm not entirely sure how allowed I'd be to base my main action around some derelict building, but something along these lines are what I currently have envisioned. I could most definitely adapt my narrative, proxemics and mise-en-scene to whatever location came my way, and living in a place where houses are few, achieving this 'deserted' and 'empty' feel should be easy enough. Again, I'd probably have to wait until I had a finalised narrative to consider the exact details, but having a vague idea of where the action should play out feels like it'd help me in these developmental stages.


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Programme Reference

Also, I found this:


'Black Mirror, 2012–present. Created by Charlie Brooker, shows the dark side of life and technology.'


...another good reference for the stylised aspects of my production.


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Aims and Intentions

My current ideas for the production:


Genre:
'paranoid fiction'; 'dystopian'; 'Orwellian'


Channel:
ITV


Location in narrative:
Point of disruption. Maybe at the latter end of an episode to leave audience on a cliff-hanger...


Aiming to achieve:


    A dystopian productions, lightly touching on sci-fi themes, but sticking more rigidly to the idea of rebelling against a higher position of authority and control - a style more suited to the works of George Orwell (1984). I'd like to have a fairly evenly balanced casting in terms of male and female, and I want to be cautious in avoiding stereotypical or gender bias representations in my narrative, appealing to the support from a millennial audience in achieving gender equality.


    The narrative itself still needs a LOT of refinement, but I think I have a general overview of how I want my piece to play out. I like the idea of a deserted environment, an element taken from particularly Scandinavian Noir productions that I've studied previously. This location alone is enough to set an audience on edge, and combined with some overbearing government concept, an element of realism may be ongoing even with fictitious events.


    The only thing that I'm mildly concerned about is that in taking inspiration from the workings of Orwell and similar texts, I'll lose originality somewhere down the line, and that my plot may be too predictable. The 'government' role therefore, could be replaced by something else, be that just a known enemy amidst this conjured reality, or simply an organisation targeting my protagonist.
  
   I think I'd only lightly touch on the entire dynamic and 'aims and intentions' of the characters themselves. In doing this, I can elicit curiosity in an audience also demonstrate that this segment would be from an ongoing series. Some information will need to be given so not to entirely alienate viewers unfamiliar with the show's context, but I think I'd focus more on forming new narrative strands and layers, showing complexity and giving the piece a sense of direction after this 'episode'.


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