COURSEWORK - script

We had a an idea for our script to do a voice over using one of our teachers voices. The reason why we used one of our teachers voices was because it was overly powerful and moving which fitted in with our video very well.

The script we used is from a second world war book of poems. The poem we used was called 'The Survivor'. this poem could be interpreted in many ways, and the way we want it to be understood is how people suffer with the idea of being below the breadline and being surrounded by poverty and not being able to afford certain things. This will also affect peoples mental states, developing depression to increase. 

SCRIPT:

THE SURVIVOR 

"I am twenty-four"

"let to slaughter"

"I survived."

"The following are empty synonyms:"

"man and beast"

"love and hate"

"friend and foe"

"darkness and light"

"The way of killing men and beasts are the same"

"I've seen it:"

"truckfuls of lost men" - (originally here it said "chopped up men" but we changed it to fit in with the story of our coursework better)

"who will not be saved."

"Ideas are mere words:"

"virtue and crime"

"truth and lies"

"beauty and ugliness"

"courage and cowardice."

"Virtue and crime weigh the same"

"i've seen it:"

"in a man who was both"

"criminal and virtuous."

"I seek a teacher and a master"

"may he restore my sight hearing and speech"

"may he again name objects and ideas"

"may he separate darkness from light"

"I am twenty-four"

"led to slaughter"

"i survived" 

As you can identify, this poem is describing a man who has gone to war and how it has affected him mentally and physically, but we have changed the idea from war to being below the breadline.