The document summarizes a story about teenage siblings in England during COVID lockdown. The sister agrees to pick up her brother from the woods after he regrets going to look for a group wearing animal masks. When she arrives at the woods, her car won't start and a person in an animal mask approaches. She manages to start the car but sees two more people in masks in the backseat. One of them answers her brother's call and threatens him, saying his sister is unconscious but not dead. The person is part of a group called the Transparent Animals who oppose lockdown restrictions.

1. TRANSPARENT ANIMALS

2. Covid-19 struck the UK, which as a result forced the
government to take serious action by putting the nation
into lockdown. However, many people are fed up with the
intensive lockdown regulations, stating that it is a
restriction of their freedom and a way for the government
to take ultimate control of the country.
As a result, there has been a group of people committing
violent crimes to show their disrespect to the
government.This group of people are wearing animal
masks to hide their identity but also as a method of
intimidation, because there has been many news reports
highlighting this group as a threat.
The animal masks are also significant because this group
feel the government are treating the population as
animals because they feel they are being kept captive.
Therefore, they say “if the government are going to treat
us like animals, we will act like animals”.
CONTEXT

3. The lockdown regulations allow for each person to be
outside for an hour each day. After having seen the news
on the reports of people wearing animal masks causing
havoc, four teenage boys set out looking for the group of
people wearing animal masks. Boredom and typical
impulsive teenage boy behavior is the reasoning behind
their decision to go into the woods.
However, one of the boys regrets going into the woods as
a result of peer pressure as he knows it is dangerous and
because he knows his mother would be extremely furious
if she found out what he was doing.Therefore, without
the other boys knowing, he calls his sister asking her to
pick him up at the wood's car park. As they have a strong
sibling relationship, she says she is happy to.
STORY

4. On her drive to the wood’s car park, the sister notices a
weird noise in her car, however, she carries on driving and
decides to check the problem when she gets there. Finally
when she arrives, she gets out the car, opens the bonnet
and looks to find the problem. She then gets in the car
and tries to start the car, however she struggles. In her
endeavours to start the car, she gets a text message from
her brother saying “on my way now”.
As she looks up from her phone she sees a blurry figure
walking slowly towards her car, as it comes closer she
realises it is a person in an animal mask. Suddenly she
begins to panic, turning the key in the ignition,
desperately trying to get the engine to start. As the figure
gets closer to the car she finally manages to start the
engine. She looks back to reverse out, as she looks back
she sees she isn’t alone, there are two people with animal
masks in the backseat.

5. As the sister’s phone is ringing on the passenger seat of
her car, one of the people in the animal masks answers
the call which is coming from her brother. As the brother
speaks, he is interrupted by the person in the animal
mask: “Listen carefully”, initially the brother starts
panicking and says, “you’re not my sister”.
The man in the animal mask says “if you interrupt me
again, you won’t see your sister again. She isn’t dead, but
she isn’t awake. I am part of theTransparent Animals, a
group formed to help the public see who really cares
about them. My duty as a patriot is not to protect my
country from other countries but to protect my country
from its government. I will be in touch.”
As the person in the animal mask is making his speech,
there is drone footage showing the country in lockdown,
emphasizing the impact of covid and how the country is
now a ghost town, with no movement in the streets or
the skies.

6. CAST
Kyle – 18
When I think of Kyle, I think of Ronnie O’Sullivan, English
Professional Snooker player.Very charismatic, independent
and a leader. Like Ronnie, Kyle had to juggle doing his
schoolwork, sport and job, whilst looking after his younger
sister because both his parents were in jail. Due to a lack of
supervision and income support Kyle often made bad
decisions to earn a bit of extra money, which could be argued
demonstrates his strong character as he was having to work
to provide for his sister. As result led to Kyle being known as
a troublemaker, someone who most parents wouldn’t want
their child to be around because of their bad influence.
Blake – 17
Blake is a relatively normal 17-year-old, who works hard in
school but also sees the value of a good social life. Blake can
easily be influenced, which makes him an excellent
companion to Kyle as they both cause trouble. Blake has a
relaxed family life which means he isn't often pressured by
his parents to stick to rules unless it impacts his future or
theirs.

7. Tommy – 17
Like Blake,Tommy is also an average 17-year-old. As
lockdown has caused the school year to stop, it allows
Tommy to spend most of his days gaming.As a result of
too much exposure to violent video games,Tommy has
been completely desensitized to blood and gore,
making him more willing to play aggressive games with
his friends.
Marcus – 16
Marcus is neither the geeky kid or the most popular kid
but somewhere in between. Although he is part of the
popular group of kids at school, he is very rarely
involved with them outside of school.This is because
Marcus is very afraid of his parents, not because there
are signs of abuse in any factor, purely down to their
strict rules they set in the house, rules by which Marcus
never breaks. Which as a result can make Marcus seem
socially awkward and distant from conversations.

8. Alecia – 20
Alecia is the older sister to Marcus. However, they both
have far contrasting lifestyles,Alecia shows no fear of her
parents as she likes to bend the rules without them
knowing but will always show respect to them . Like an
older brother looks after a younger sister, the roles are
reversed in this case, as Alecia does all she can to
accommodate her brother.This is because she feels he is
missing out on all the social experiences she had at his
age, which as a result makes her the cool older sister
because she tries to encourage Marcus to go out and
have some fun, even if it isn't within their parents'
permission.

9. The film is set in the southeast of England in early 2020.
The time is relevant to the location as the effects of
Covid-19 only took place around March, in the UK. A small
town on the outskirts of London with an abundance of
woodland. As the forestry is very large and undiscovered
to the naked eye, it offers a sinister appeal to the film
when we introduce the woods.The link to the impact
from covid is obvious due to the row of local shops being
closed/abandoned.
LOCATION