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The South African television series (screenplay), Big.Little, is hybrid of science- fiction, drama, and horror that makes a variety of interesting claims about the correlation between technological growth and the deterioration of wildlife on Earth.

Big.Little explore a high- tech near- future where society’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

The Years Before

The World Wildlife Fund published its latest Living Planet Report at the end of 2016; reporting that from 1970 to 2012 close to 60 per cent of the world’s wildlife had been wiped out and that the number would increase to a startling 67 per cent by the year 2020. I drew inspiration from this to create the world of Big. Little.

In this world bees had already gone extinct a few years back. Being responsible for pollinating 70% of fruits, vegetables, and nuts that feed 90% of the world and translates in 200 billion dollars of agriculture revenue, the great bee extinction meant that the world could no longer sustain a population of 7 billion people. Entire food chains and webs went extinct; with fewer almonds to use as feed for farm cattle and chickens the amount of livestock and necessities such as milk and eggs fell rapidly.

The people therefore live mostly off of corn, wheat and rice as they are wind polinated plants. Clothing industries were also affected as cotton is the base of most fabrics produced for clothing.

Years after it was reported that the well of Deepwater Horizon oil rig had been sealed, studies showed that it had indeed been leaking all these years. Due to the years- long spill. there is extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats. Numerous fish such as tuna and amberjack developed deformities of the heart and shortened their life expectancy.

With little livestock, and produce and with the global economy crashing the governments of the world looked for answers.

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The following is a song from the film The East (2013), called Doc’s Piano Song. Listen to this song to get a clear understanding of the tonality of Big. Little.

[Note: This song is not for commercial use, only for the demonstration of tonality in a television series].

In Big. Little, a company called Animus Inc. funded a project for several years that explored the idea that humans are made out of ‘information’ that is seen as a pattern that could be incarnated in numerous material substrates such as: carbon or silicon. The mind is, therefore, seen as software that could be ‘run’ on various kinds of hardware Two computer scientists, Hans Jorvec and Len Kurzweil, experimented with the prospect of humans abandoning their archaic, fallible organic bodies, and download their minds into robots or computers. After the first successful “download”, the project spent billions to globalize the project. That project is now called The Animus Project.

[Aminus is a latin word that means consciousness, purpose, soul, heart and mind i.e. The (consciousness) Project.]

#worldcreation #history

How did they do it?

Animus Inc. created an online service provider that collects an individual’s social media profiles, public emails and all online communications in order to create a virtual representation of that individual. The individual gives access to the online service provider to record the individuals voice and physical features.

When the person dies, the service provider activates the lifeless clone of the individual [that resides in a ‘community’ full of artificial intelligent beings] and downloads the virtual representation of that person into the ‘body’. Here that individual will spend their days trying to come up with solutions and inventions that could better the new species of being and their habitat.

The Online Service provider is called “Ness” [short for consciousness].

Ness can be used on numerous devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, and technologically advanced contact lenses.

For reference take a look at Black Mirror s3e1 “Nosedive”.

Conquest of spaces.

There are 2 predominant spaces in Big. Little:

1. The Grid: The area where the Artificial Intelligent Beings wake up and reside in.

2. Heremus: A community of human beings living together.

#worldcreation

Do listen and tell me what do you think?

The following is a link to a song that not only fits Big. Little tonally, but has also become quite valuable for the lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IR-JNrTcA

#conquestofspaces

The Grid

The Grid has a simplistic, modern, concrete and glass design. For a clear understanding of the tonality and overall look of The Grid’s exterior and interior design, follow these instructions: [Note: There are images that show windows with trees and shrubs- in the series those will not be actually windows but television screens simulating nature images].

1. Follow the link/ or:

https://iamblyde.tumblr.com/interior.&.exterior.thegrid

2. Go to the top of the page > click on the ‘Pages’ tab > click on ‘exterior and interior of ‘The Grid’.

NOTE: Please don’t open any other links if not instructed to do so yet.

Heremus

Heremus, Latin for desert or wasteland, is situated between a mountain range (yet to be named) in the desert. Its a small community of wooden cabins and a group of culturally diverse and unique individuals.

For a clear understanding of the tonality and overall look of Heremus’ exterior and interior design, follow these instructions: [Note: There are trees in the images but there will only be a small amount of trees in the television series.][

1. Follow the link/ or:

https://iamblyde.tumblr.com/interior.&.exterior.heremus

2. Go to the top of the page > click on the ‘Pages’ tab > click on ‘exterior and interior of ‘Heremus’.

NOTE: Please don’t open any other links if not instructed to do so yet.

Colour Palettes to cleanse your taste-buds.

Please follow these links respectively to gain a better understanding of the colours these subsequent spaces will work in (in set and costume design, as well as tonality)

1. The Grid: https://iamblyde.tumblr.com/colourpalette.thegrid

2. Heremus: https://iamblyde.tumblr.com/colourpalette.heremus

#colourpalette

The Look.

World-creation can only ever be believable when there is consistency and a clear layout for the look and tone of that world. The choices you make, or fail to make, with regards to the clothing design have an impact on the believable world-creation. Please follow these links respectively to have a look at the type of costume design for each space respectively:

1. The Grid: https://iamblyde.tumblr.com/costumedesignthegrid

2. Heremus: https://iamblyde.tumblr.com/costumedesignheremus

#costumedesign

Big. Little will follow the narrative structure of the television series Orange is the New Black. Each episode will feature stories/ memories from the characters’ past or lives before they came to be where they are now.

Note of worth:

It is important to note, here, that the Artificial Intelligent beings are in no way constructed and limited as in the Black Mirror episode ‘Be Right Back’ s2e1 but rather as boundless and emotive as the AI’s in Spike Jonze’s film Her (2013).

T[u]nality

For some more [TONE]ality with regards to music here is a link to the soundtrack of the film Her (2013):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pn2ZFm2Jwc&index=9&list=PL2lEMhX9H6tlUZfQ-uDgL452oHOA1G2kZ

Where must we go we who wander the wasteland in search of our better selves.

The First History Man

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