First rough script / storyline draft

 This is the first rough draft of my script. I plan to get some feedback on it then tweak it.

•   Starts with Gardener travelling through barren, nuclear war-torn landscape on ‘car’ (like an army vehicle mixed with a robot – Has arms for moving rocks and collecting samples, sample pots, etc.) Gardener looks down at Tablet with info about the nuclear bunker (seed shed) on it. (info on tablet: LOCATION: Random co-ords, PURPOSE: seed storage BUNKER STATUS: Unknown, An image of the bunker in pristine condition)

 

• Gardener arrives at the bunker, finding it in ruins. There are strange vines growing on the ruined structure, which gets the gardeners hopes up (i.e., their expression goes from stern to slightly excited). Upon closer inspection using a botanist book, they appear to be a mutated version of Ivy- Thicker Tendrils, spines, glowing patches. The Gardener takes a sample anyway and drives into the ruined base. Vines move ever so slightly in the background of driving scene.

 

• The Gardener drives down a long corridor with more mutated vines growing on the walls and ceiling, the glowing parts lighting up the tunnel. Vines are moving slowly in the background. 

 

• At the end of the corridor, the Gardener gets to a big set of rusted doors. The gardener must give them a good couple of yanks to get them to open. The gardener gets back on the car and drives into the main part of the bunker.

 

• Through the door is a large entrance room, with a caved in roof and covered in more of the mutated vines and a couple of other mutated plant species, which the gardener goes and identifies and takes samples of. While doing this, she realises another large entry way that is almost entirely blocked by rubble. There are two other smaller corridors as well, and the Gardener goes down the nearest one.

 

•  In this corridor are large flowers growing in the walls which, on closer inspection, appear to be a mutated species of orchid. As she leaves the corridor, the flowers of the mutated orchids all turn to face her.

• The gardener enters what looks like a lab, with several large containment chambers with plants in them. While the gardener investigates the containment chambers, vines can be seen moving in the background. The gardener turns around, and the vines stop moving. The gardener looks at the vines in concern for a couple of seconds, then goes back to retrieving the plant matter that is in the containment chambers.

• Taking what she had gathered back to the car that she had left in the main entrance; the gardener notices a shaft of light shining from the big door covered in rubble. The gardener scrambles up and peers into the new window and sees greenery on the other side.

 

• The gardener then goes back to her car and uses the mechanical arms to remove some of the rubble, enough for her to make it through to the other side.

• On the other side is a large, lush greenhouse with lots of plants, both mutated and normal. The gardener goes to the middle and looks around in awe. She gets out her notebook and the tools she has been using to take samples.

• As she’s looking on, a big shadow comes over her. She slowly turns around and ends up dropping the tools and the notebook, a look of shock/terror on her face. A growl comes from the shadow, then it cuts to the end card.