The script and shot ideas!

The open plains of the aspalt Jungle (Establishing shot - of housing estate or something)

Home to many creatures big and small, and the pupping ground for some of the world’s most illustrious creatures, One, the plastic bag. (go to Waitrose or similar super Market and video people putting shopping in their car)

Today we explore the cycle of life for this curious creature the plastic bag on it’s migration home to the pacific ocean. (Title comes in…’The plastic bag’) (Showing a clip of the plastci bag in the sea, or in water)

Once released in to the wild the plastic bag is unsure of itself, it falters at first, but soon with some help from the wind, the bag will be airborne.  (plastic bag floating across a street, eventually being taken into the air)

This flight will be the first of its long journey to its final destination, The garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific ocean.

Using the wind to guide it the plastic bag moves across the city through the air. (The plastic bag floating from the air closer to the ground, I would like this shot to be like the feather in forest gump)

A city park, at first may seem an idyllic place for the plastic bag, but danger lurks round every corner.  Here it will encounter many enemies, including one of the most dangerous, park services. (one gets picked up by a bin man) – Poor little fella, looks like his journey ends here. (clip of a plastic bag travelling through the park, and getting picked up by a bin man and being placed into a bin)

Meanwhile our little bag has uncounted one of nature’s most deadly killers, The Springadore. Once the springadore has locked on to it’s victim, There’s very little hope of survival, but using it’s superior size and deft manoeuvring, our bag manages to escape the springadore talons a flea for it’s life. (This part I may not include, it uses a dog, I only put down springadore - labradore cross springer spaniel -  because this is one of my dogs who when she was a puppy used to try and get plastic bags at any opportunity - dangerous, i know - but I don't know whether she would chase after one anymore)

Over the course of it’s migration, the plastic bag will cover vast distances. Through neighbourhoods, across parks, and down city streets. (clip of the bag travelling down a city street, across a park and through neighbour hoods - I'm sure i could do this at Hearts farm in wymondham - if that's what it's called)

As at home in water as it is on land and in air, the bags natural buoyancy makes it an excellent swimmer! (The bag floating down a river, giving the effect of it travelling to the mouth where it can then be released in to the sea, hence the next line)

It’s close now, and it can feel it.

The bag will travel thousands of miles to join the thriving community known as the great pacific garbage patch. This Magnificent Patch is a veritable plastic oasis, where millions of tonnes of plastic garbage remained trapped by the currents.

Never actually biodegrading, here the plastic bag can live, peacefully, co-existing with billions of other petroleum species. Thus completing the plastic cycle of life.

THE END FOR THE OPENING TWO MINS.

Voice Ideas: Ideaily I would like the tone of my narration to be David Attenbourgh, like thats going to happen, so I think I'm going to have to find someone witha fairly monotone, soothing voice to read this script, permission permitting obviously!

Inspiration behind my idea
Because i wanted to do a mockumentary, I have recentlt been watching Documentarys including david Attenbourgh. I listened to how he says things and the type of words he uses,I have also analysed the way in which he orders the sequences. So most of my script, or the big words initatleastare words from his documentary's on animals (as i'm treating the plastic bag as an animal) and from his latest one frozen planet.

So, for the script...narration over the top of a video. I have come up with a script which i hope will work and won't be too long (It can however be shortened, better too much than too little) and The words in brackets are what I hope the shots will be.