Story Ideas -- OUAN405, The Other Side

Pre-Production - Story Ideas

Sports Match:
A team warm up by the side of a football pitch. (look at footballers from Eleanor Rigby scene in Yellow Submarine). A bus pulls up and opponent team step out looking physically powerful/superior, and very scary/aggressive. Cut to the first team looking scared and quaking in their boots. Cut to the captains shaking hands and flipping a coin, then the referee blows his whistle, cut to black. Next shot first team in the pub looking very battered and bruised, crutches and casts etc. One player lips to the bare, barman says "Had a rough match?" player replies "You should see the other side."

Crossing the floor:
A man in a suit and blue tie walks down the street. He see s a homeless man wrapped in a blanket trying to sleep in a doorway. He sees a queue of people including old folks and people in wheelchairs outside the job centre. He sees a small business shutting down, next door a giant chain supermarket is being built/opening. He looks worried at each of these sights, but continues walking. We see a shot of Big Ben/Houses of Parliament, and then interior of ministers in session. The main character is sitting on a green bench as debate takes place. Suddenly he stands up and tears off his tie, walks down from the benches and crosses the floor.

Attack:
One or two characters in military fatigues with assault rifles are in a building (maybe a barn/garage/warehouse) barricading doors. They work efficiently and don't look too scared. Cut to them sitting round a small fire eating tins of beans. It is dark and they are eating in silence. Suddenly a dog begins to bark outside, and they look scared, reaching for their rifles. The dog stops barking with a death rattle. Suddenly there is a banging on the walls and a zombie moaning sound. The characters stand up looking grim and in silence cock their weapons. Cut to black.

Dark side of the moon:
A child looks out his window at the gibbous moon. Camera zooms through space and round to the other side of the moon. We see a portal open on the ground and various semi-organic spaceships and massive monsters (see Avengers) crawl/fly out and amass. A slow track into the biggest spaceship, in through a window to the control room, an alien in military looking clothes says something in alien language, subtitles read "ATTACK."

Card Game:
A bead of water dribbles down a surface. As we zoom out it reveals to be sweat on a man's forehead. He is concentrating hard and staring forward. Opposite is another man, looking more calm but still concentrating. Neither are willing to break eye contact with each other. Next shot we see four cards face up on the table between them, each man holds two cards, the first gripping them intently, the second holding them nonchalantly and carefree. A croupier picks up one last card from the deck, and lays it face up on the table. The men's expressions intensify. Quick alternating cuts between a track into the first man's worried eyes and the cards in the second man's hands. Sound effects and music build up in tension. The second man smiles an enigmatic smile and throws his cards on the table. Cut to black.