Ancillary Narrative 3

**Shifting genre and tone, come up with a story concept that**
adds color to your world.

A bipolar / insomniac character finds his way to survive the post
apocalyptic world . He needs to look out for himself and find his way to other groups
of humans. He falls in love with another character along the way.

**What is the genre?**

Action / Sci-Fiction / Thriller

**Targeting a completely new market that you did with the Core**
Narratives and other Ancillary Narratives, what is a different target market
for this story?

18-45 age group, this will be a short film, it will appeal to an
audience who are into in your face “Doom” kind of stuff. This will be rated R,
musically it will be metal.

**How do they typically engage with media?**

They use easy access platforms such as Netflix and Hulu.
Streaming is where they will intend to view it.

**Supporting Cast**

**Jarvis** - Weapons merchant who saves BP from prison and
provides him with the essentials for survival.

**Psycho** - Stray dog that BP finds in the middle of the
Journey.

**Lacey** - Super intelligent and bipolar girl that BP falls
in love with later.

**Locations**

Around the anarchy dome.

F.E

D.E

**The Hero**

“BP”, who is an Asian American and is bipolar and has insomnia.
He is lost in the post apocalyptic world. He starts around the anarchy dome in
a prison and needs to get to D.E and find someone to survive with.

**The Physical Goal**

He needs to find someone else to survive with and figure out what
to do after. He needs to learn about surviving in this new world.

**The Emotional Goal**

Fear and anxiety all around. Moods switching rapidly because of
his mental health issue.

**Personal Obstacle**

Bipolar and has insomnia. Heavy mood swings and feeling of
disorientation.

**The Villain**

The aliens are enslaving humans and no weapons that currently
exist work on them.

**Justification**

The alien commander. Because they want to enslave humans and
colonize the planet.

**Medium**

Short Film

**Why does it make sense for this medium?**

Because it’s a short story that takes place in the same story
world. It focuses on having bipolar disorder and experiencing the mood swings
from it.The story is really short and only covers about 15% of the world.

**Platform**

Streaming

**Why does it make sense for this platform? Does the story take**
advantage of the platform?

Yes it does, because streaming platforms are trending right now.
A lot of people want shorter films because of their attention span.

**Additive comprehension**

Character reveal and micro-story reveal. It takes place in locations
in the main story world and has a unique outlook on the aliens.

**“BP” Short Film**

**F.E / Anarchy Dome / Havoc Dome / D.E**

This story starts off around the Anarchy dome with a couple that
has just given birth to a brand new baby boy. The boy is abandoned and ends up
being raised up in his aunts illegal brothel and he skips school and gets into
lot of trouble till he finally ends up going to prison for attempted robbery at
the age of 18. He learns that he is Bi-Polar and suffers from Insomnia from his
violent upbringing during his psychiatric evaluation in prison. When the aliens
hit earth, he is 21 years old and they messed up all the landmarks and the
entire map of the planet had changed and everyone in the prison had survived
except the guards. It was chaos all around, the buildings had cracked and the
fences had come down and all the prisoners were running wild. The name of the
main character is Alan Hartmann, but out on the streets and in prison he was
known as “BP”. BP found himself stuck in his cell with no help, he doesn’t eat
for over 3 days and on the last day when he almost dies, he hears a car in the
distance and with all the energy that he has left he screams out of his lungs
for help. Jarvis who is a weapons dealer hears BP and heads towards him and
rescues him. BP was in bad shape so he was offered some water and canned food
to help replenish his energy. The next day he wakes up in the car while he and
Jarvis were on an empty freeway headed towards F.E. When they reach there they
find out that most of the people had been enslaved by the aliens in the Anarchy
Dome. BP wanted to wander off on his own at this point, he was mad and angry
that the world was in such a bad shape when he got out of prison, he felt like
he didn’t deserve to live and had no fear at this point. Jarvis gave him an
assault riffle, a couple of grenades and some ammo to survive along with some
food. This is where BP and Jarvis separate paths. BP is trying to get to D.E
and there is a large part of land between the F.E and the D.E. He doesn’t
posses any knowledge about the aliens other than that they are trying to take
over the planet and destroy it. He is afraid of them and finds himself
constantly running away from them. The entire movie covers him hiking from F.E
to D.E alone for most of it. He finds a stray dog and names him “Psycho” when
he heads out of F.E and names it Misty. For most of the hike BP finds himself
either being extremely scared or relieved and whenever he sees the aliens he
ran, fearing for his life. When he reaches midway he meets a girl named Lacey
who is alone and has a similar background to him. They spend a night camping
together and get to know each other, and since they were both lonely and afraid
they end up sleeping together and falling in love over the stories they shared
about their personal life. They then hike to D.E where they were recruiting
people to revolt against the aliens and to take our planet back.