Night in a dystopian Britain. The camera pans across decadent buildings and progresses slowly into more impoverished areas. Graffiti and dilapidated flats pop up everywhere. The streets are quiet as it is late and there are Government imposed curfews. Intersectional shots of police standing guard over the empty city. A quiet street lined with lamps and tannoys is gently lit. Despite the quietness our protagonist steps out to catch some air outside the front door. He pulls out a cigarette and begins to smoke.
Camera pans down under the street line and winds through underground passages. Characters appear walking down the tunnel, which bears resemblance to the London Underground. Technology dominates the background, tucked into the walls. They arrive at their radio booth and begin. Lights begin appearing; flashing, pulsating and increasing.
(Cut back to protagonist) sound seeps through the streets via tannoys and radios, slowly gaining in volume until synthesised noises are echoing throughout the street. The inquisitive protagonist walks slowly from tannoy to tannoy as the sound builds. Eyes appear at windows. They suspiciously follow the protagonist as he walks.
The music begins broadcast from every radio and television. People at home are awe struck and confused but excitement grows. The televisions show waveforms. The broadcast is happening nation wide.
Meetings begin in the wide corridors and busy rooms of the Government building. People with the heads of pigs wearing formal attire are chaotically bickering. A large projector is in the background emitting the waveform to emphasise their anger at their radio interception. One of the politicians speaks in the ear of a Police Officer who, in turn speaks into his walkie talkie. Police are dispatched to settle the growing excitement in the city.
(Cut back to protagonist location)
2 Silhouettes appear walking behind the protagonist. They draw closer and closer in the cover of darkness. The protagonist darts down a narrow alleyway to avoid them but more appear. They pin him to the wall. Simultaneously through the narrow crack visible which opens onto the Main Street people begin. to walk past. There is revelry in the air. The protagonist breaks from their grip in their lapse of concentration. And runs to vanish into the crowd. Wide shot of the ever growing crowd, all unified and heading in the same direction.
The hoard of people who have dispersed in the streets all congregate under a bridge decorated with graffiti. Members of the radio station have orchestrated the movement. Sound systems blare the music out inciting festive behaviour (dancing, creating art) through the increasing showcases of creativity at the venue, emphasise the antithesis of what the Government is suppressing and the positive outcomes of it. Our protagonist enters and throws off his identity concealing garments. Together, people who were afraid to show individualism are showing their true colours.
Enraged, Government operatives try to shut down the movement. The attempts are futile. Police line up, arresting who they can, but overall the uprising is too large to safely control.
The next morning, the message has been received throughout society that Government oppression cannot hold strong, as citizens have demonstrated their rights to act as a community, abandoning their preconceptions of suspicion and self preservation.
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