States Involved: Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
All submissions from Chapter One: Outbreak needs to reflect a state of confusion and fear. The life that you know has been or is about to be severely altered by the sickness. People around you or even yourself are falling ill from the mysterious epidemic. There is little information about the virus and it’s frustrating. The hospitals are starting to over flow and few people are getting proper attention for the supposed ‘flu virus’. The public in in a state of hypochondria. Many people are speculating the origin and very nature of the virus, however no one has any real answers. The severity of the developing disease is growing.
Specific points about your film for Chapter One: Outbreak can address
- The Virus is real and is spreading fast, are you sick or healthy? Is there anyone you know who is infected with the flu virus?
- Do you help people who have fallen ill or do you help yourself?
- Speculate to what the virus might do and where it potentially came from. At this point the virus has not been properly defined.
- What will you do to protect yourself and others from this sickness?
- How drastically has this changed your routine in life?
States Involved: Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas
All the submissions from Chapter Two: Panic need to show a breakdown in the system. It is the first chapter that has the potential to be violent in nature. People are taking to the streets looting and rioting, they want answers. Your submission needs to show how you would react under such circumstances. Do you stockpile and sit it out? Or do you react angrily? These submissions need to consider who your real friends are and how you protect your love ones in such a state of lawlessness. The Respiren flu virus has yet to be relieved and the confusion is unsettling and fear based.
Specific points about your film for Chapter Two: Panic can address
- People are becoming more violent as the 'Respiren Flu' becomes overwhelming, does the violence affect your life? Are you the violence?
- Are your belongings and your home being compromised as the law is too distracted to help?
- People have fallen ill all around you; the disease is now apart of your daily life. How does this affect the world you are used to?
States Involved: Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Wyoming
All the submissions for Chapter Three: Riot need to show the lengths people will go to in order to protect themselves. People are boarding up houses and shutting out from the rest of the world in order to protect what matters most. With Toxicil there is hope, however the demand for Toxicil outweighs the supply. People are literally rioting to get there hands on the drug that could relieve the threat of the ‘Respiren Flu’ and because of this Toxicil is a luxury for those that have the money and the means to get it.
Specific points about your film for Chapter Three: Riot can address
- Toxicil seems to be the only viable solution to the epidemic. The demand for Toxicil is enough for some to do anything to acquire it. Where can you find the drug that so many like yourself are in great need of?
- With so many still dying will the drug even work?
- Will you do anything to get a hold of the drug? Do you already have the drug? What kind of a situation are you in?
States Involved: Tennessee, Montana, Idaho, Arkansas
All submissions from Chapter Four: Shock need to relay that exact title. People are in a state of complete shock. Toxicil appears to be to weak of a drug to deal with the newly mutated virus. However the public is still holding on to Toxicil as the only viable cure and people are going to great lengths to protect themselves by attaining it. This is the first chapter introducing the undead. Their very nature hard for you to comprehend, some have already taken the means to execute the newly infected and their grappling with the morality of their actions. Trust is fading. Just how long can you sit this out?
Specific points about your film for Chapter Four: Shock can address
- The drug does not appear to have had enough time to beat the disease; do you still hold onto hope that the drug can cure the flu epidemic?
- The president has given a very grave address; people are in a state of shock. The government appears to be falling apart. Where do you go? Who do you turn to?
- Now another threat has emerged. The undead. They are few, mostly rumored. Have you encountered them or have you heard recent stories? Do you believe them?
States Involved: Nevada, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia
All submissions from Chapter Six: Preservation must involve the need to eventually relocate your current position. Supplies and resources are thinning and the undead are growing ferociously in numbers outside your safe house. Where else is safe? Where can you replenish? Where can you survive? . The government has issued that there are fortified camps both from radio and payloads of fliers. The camps have not been compromised, however are you actually safer there? And for how long?
Specific points about your film for Chapter Five: Preservation can address
- Where are these fortified military camps? Are you near or far to them? Do you plan to go to one or sit it out?
- Your homes and shelters are barricaded; to go and find a base camp or move outside of position could put you into immediate danger.
- The very nature of the undead is frightening and curious to you. The undead appear to be nothing like their former selves, like your friends, family and people you know. They are violent and act with no reason. Do you know someone who has become undead? Are you about to become undead?
States Involved: Washington, Vermont, Oregon, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania
All submissions for Chapter Seven: Black Out needs to address the breakdown of conventional communication. Your televisions, phones and radios are no longer transmitting. CB’s and walkie-talkies are coming through with slight transmissions but the information is stale mated. Its time for your own instincts to kick in, your common sense is all you have left to work off of.
Specific points about your film for Chapter Six: Blackout can address
- All communication has broken down, your cell phones, land lines, computers and televisions are no longer transmitting. You know nothing and it’s frustrating.
- Are you alone? Are you with a group? What is the social dynamic of your situation, how much of a threat do the undead pose as well as those around you?
- With no information its up to your instincts in order to survive, are you a leader or a follower? What are your gut feelings?
States Involved: Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Various surrounding islands
All submissions from Chapter Seven: Isolation needs to show a different kind of threat. No one is in danger of becoming infected by the virus. In this location people are shut off from the rest of the world. The island is completely surrounded by military from several countries. This is where they hold the virus at bay. However the locals are becoming restless and taking the law into their own hands. Gangs are starting to control neighborhoods and law enforcement is becoming overwhelmed to the point of breakdown. The safest place on earth has its own monster to deal with.
Specific points about your film for Chapter Seven: Isolation can address
- You are completely isolated from the mainland with no news about the epidemic, speculate what happened.
- The law is becoming overwhelmed and can barely keep the peace with Gang lords and zealots taking over neighborhoods, are you apart of this or are you a victim of it?
- Did you know anyone on the mainland, when was the last you heard of them
- Are you worried that the epidemic may reach you despite the fact that you are naturally quarantined?
States Involved: Texas, New Mexico, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alaska
All submissions for Chapter Nine: Migrations are about being on the move. What once was safe is now gone. You are traveling to the proposed safest location with no real knowledge if it’s legitimately safe. It’s the last hope you have, the promise of a place where you can survive. That is if you survive before you get there.
Specific points about your film for Chapter Eight: Migration can address
- You are alone and can’t trust anyone outside of your group or yourself, supplies are very thin and it’s the only thing that’s keeping you alive. Are you fortunate to have more then others? Or are you in desperate need?
- You are on the move, where do you go? Why there exactly?
- Most citizens are in great fear of becoming infected, how can you convince them you are not a carrier of the virus? Or is that even possible?
- And last but not least you have the undead to contend with, they are growing in numbers greater then those who are not infected on top of all your other problems.
States Involved: California, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine
All submissions from Chapter Ten: Trapped need to possibly be about the last few minutes of your life. There is nothing now but chaos and inevitability. Your safe houses are being utterly compromised. It’s about finally being pushed into a corner. There is no one left to help you except those in your group. In your last few minutes what kind of a conscious do have left?
Specific points about your film for Chapter Nine: Trapped can address
- This is it; the end is around the corner. As the life you know is about to officially end do you go out fighting or do you finally lay down arms and concede to defeat?
- Now that your finally backed into a corner, how did you get there? Reflect on the events that brought you to this place.
- Is it actually even the undead that kills you? There are plenty of other obstacles that could.
- What will the new world be like? If you were to survive what kind of a world would that be?
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