L2 UNIT 40 - MuTr:IX Brief

Channel 4 has commissioned a six-part television drama to be scheduled at the same time as Doctor Who on the BBC. This new drama series will compete for a similar target audience as the BBC’s flagship programme. 

The series finale will conclude with a Christmas Eve special.

It will be a conspiracy thriller set at a sixth form college in Cambridge. Four students individually get tipped off by email / social media messages that students of the college are to receive a government agency experimental treatment originally trialled in 2009 (“Mutation Treatment IX”) which eradicates any sense of protest or activist behaviour in the upcoming generation of the electorate towards the government aim of absolute control. The treatment is received/ingested through the eye, without students’ knowledge or consent.

The four student protagonists are:

1. An activist (hacker, studying political sciences)

2. A non-activist (interests in sport, fashion, a consumer, alpha college social character etc.)

3. A computer expert (designer, programmer, gamer etc.)

4. A budding bio scientist (with interests in human biology)

TASK
In groups, you will produce the opening titles sequence and the opening scene in which one of the four students gets tipped off about the Mu Tr :IX programme.

The titles sequence will contain short scenes of the four main characters with the ‘snatch’ title effect, short action sequences, elements from the series, medical and scientific graphics, typography effects and video footage of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology building next to Long Road.

SCHEDULE
The production work will last four weeks. One week for the planning and filming, with a further two weeks for the editing.
The project DEADLINE will be 4.10 pm Friday 13th December.

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