The document outlines an idea for the beginning of a thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war, showing a man living happily until flashbacks reveal the apocalypse and he awakens in a laboratory with people in protective gear as he adjusts to the ruined world outside. Cinematography techniques like lighting, camera angles, and editing are proposed to convey the surreal happy world turning dark as reality sets in for the confused man.

1. Thriller Idea
Post-apocalypses
by Bob Getty, Kitty Birks and nick lyasovsky

2. The Idea
• The Idea of the ruined world, people trying to survive after Nuclear war.
• The sequence begins with a man on a beautiful hill with beautiful things surrounding him.
• We get an impression that the world he is in is just too good to be true, there is too much light, non-diegetic music,
slow-motion kids playing ball.
• Zoom up on his face, followed by flash backs of what happened during the apocalypses and then a zoom out happens
• After this we find ourselves in a laboratory, were there are men in anti-radiation suits and it looks like they are
carrying out an experiment on him.
• After this we do a further zoom out and we get to see out a window into the post apocolyptic world – which is
similar to the background, broken down etc.

3. •
M-e-s
The man at the beginning is wearing normal shorts and t-shirt and looks healthy in the face
• When he wakes up in post-apocalyptic world he is in scrubs and he looks tired and pale in the face.
• People around him are wearing anti-radiation suits (wader, rain jackets and wellies)
• Props-operation table for him to be lying on, laboratory items, guns and gas masks (bb guns and bb gun
masks)
• He should be acting happy and at ease but when he wakes his facial expression is confused and shocked.
• His body language is weak, dizzy and confused

4. Lighting
• At first the lighting is really bright – to convey this idea of a surreal world
• The fake bright light becomes dimmer
• In the laboratory the main source of light comes from the overhead lamp
(spotlight)
• The light in the post- apocalyptic world is extremely dark (like in
background image)

5. Sound
• Starts with diegetic sounds of birds, children laughing/playing
• Diegetic sounds of good world stops as is replaced diegetic sound of siren (like one from
WW2)
• In post-apocolyptic world diegetic sound of his breathing and of people speaking and medicine
bottles clinking together.
• Non-diegetic sound to end when we are looking out into this broken world, this is to add
emotion for the audience

6. Camera
• Wide shot of him on the hill
• Changes to a mid shot of him looking around
• Zoom on to his face (when the siren starts and flash back begin) and then
zoom out again (to show the change of environment)
• Mid shot of the room
• The further zoom to a wide shot (enables us to see the world outside)

7. Editing
• Making the beginning world look surreal
• Idea of the flashback, fast pace going through different
images of apocalyptic
• Point of view shot when he wakes up

8. Flash Backs