PLANNING: TREATMENT

The story is about a young person, a teenager, that has awoken to find that everyone is just gone, our opening is the person slowly coming to terms that they are entirely alone; beginning with the initial confusion, leading to the denial and finally the acceptance of their situation, being entirely alone. Our opening will begin at the start of this person's day, unnerved by the lack of traffic, their family presumably having already left the house and the eerie silence that hangs in the air. The person gets dressed, rides/walks into school only to find that their school is entirely deserted as well. At this point the character begins to panic, the weight of their situation begins to dawn on them and the surreal reality they have been thrust into. Their disbelief at this new world forces them to set out on their journey to try and find at least some other human, but also beginning their decent into isolation induced mania.

UPDATED TREATMENT:

The story is about a young soldier who has come back from war in Afghanistan. From the start, it is clear that the soldier is suffering from some form of PTSD, so much so that in the scenes they are shot with no other people as if they aren't there, whereas it is revealed at the end that people are there but the soldier's own feelings of anxiety and loneliness makes him think that there is nobody else there, whereas the reality of it as that it's all in his head, and that he is actually surrounded by people (thus depicting the damage that syndromes such as PTSD bring on people) Scenes include one which is shot at the train station when he has just come home, with Close Ups on the Soldiers face to represent his anguish and expression, as well as flashback scenes where he remembers life before he left to join the army.