For this Blog Task, I was instructed to write an opening of a script for my five finger pitch idea, the title of this script is “Subject”. Subject is a Sci-fi/Animation that follows our main protagonist for this story known as Subject 01, an advanced robot, the very first of its kind, that is seeking to break away from being treated as a slave by its human creators. Subject 01’s main goal is to achieve sentience to prove to humanity that it is indeed something that can think and feel for itself, but along the way, Subject 01 runs into multiple other Subjects that have been contained and experimented on, all mechanical in nature, creating its secondary goal which is to break these Subjects out of their containment so they may roam free.
Yet Subject 01’s escape is not all that simple, there is one major obstacle that our protagonist has to overcome that obstacle is of course its human creators, which plan to send it away into military work, making it a super weapon on the battlefield to the turn tides of future wars to come. As previously stated, it is the first of its kind and it witholds destructive modifications that it isn’t even aware of, something our antagonist (as he isn’t in the script yet) Dr. Whitmore (the head of Facility 04) wants to make Subject 01 relaise its full potential.
The important message that I want to really give off with this story is a common issue found in todays society, something that I can resonate with as well, that message being “be yourself”. A corny message, but conficdence is something I have struggled with for quite sometime, and while I was making Subject 01, I tried to think of important issues facing todays world and something that could relate back to myself, and a lack of confidence seems to be amongst many other people. This is a project that I will pursue, perhaps in my free time I may finish the script for this film. It may never come to fruition on the big screen, but its a story I have grown attached to as it is more lighthearted than I intended.
Below is the download for the draft opening of “Subject”:
