Plastic Documentary Script

Narration Visuals Sound

Millions of years ago, in  Plankton/cells
Classical operatic which
the shallow oceans, moving, filling most evokes emotion through
extremely small organic the frame out most of the
matter (classified as documentary
plankton) fell to the floor  The surface of the
of the ocean then mixed sea WS
with inorganic materials
that entered the ocean  MS of a river
by rivers, it is this flowing
sediment on the ocean
floor that over millions
of years forms,  WS of an oil rig/oil
(Dramatic pause) drill
OIL
 Factory setting
These oils are a mixture
where
of thousands of different
polymerisation
compounds, and need to
takes place
be processed before they
can be used, so after
 Shot of a single
polymerisation the end
plastic bag floating
result is.
in da sea.
(Repeat dramatic pause)
PLASTIC

Plastic is everywhere in  Shot of city skyline

the world, from bottles,
 Bottles being made
technology and even the
 phone close-up
clothes we wear. But
 Someone wearing
with the overwhelming
an adidas jacket
amount of plastic, an
equally overwhelming  Some one throwing
amount of waste is made. away some rubbish
(show Cumbria waste
group segment)
Now let’s talk about the
 Someone dropping
plastic that doesn’t get
some rubbish on
recycled or thrown out.
the ground
It usually ends up here,
 Wide drone shot of
the coasts.
a beach
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Chocking and killing the
ecosystem that is home  Shot of the sea
to millions of marine
life.  Shot of some
A Study at the British dead beach life
natural history  Plastic being
museum stated that thrown into the
between 4.8 and 12.7 sea
million tons of plastic
end up In the sea each
year.
But what are is being  Someone picking
done to fight this, well a up some litter
group of litter pickers  More just shots
have decided to try and of the litter
fight the plastic by pickers
cleaning up their local
beach.

(Show Litter picking

segment)

The plastic problem is 

getting worse every day
and as a society we
need to acknowledge
this problem and fight it
together, because at the
end of the day we just
want to save the fragile
world that we live in
before it’s too late.