Question

We are in an extraordinary and frightening period of world history, facing the type of crisis that, hopefully, we only see once every century or two. You know that two or three years from now, Hollywood, if it survives, will be releasing the “Corona Virus Film”, whether that is the appropriate or ethical thing to do or not.

         What do you think this film will look like? How will filmmakers look back in time and tell the story. Sadly, we do not know where we will be in a few years and what the true global impact will be. For this assignment, I want you to be the filmmaker. What story do you tell? How do you tell it? What characters and visuals do you use to tell the story? Where do you set it? What is the ending? We are all a small part of this film you are creating. Please be thoughtful, respectful and creative in your work. This is a crisis that is impacting all of us and your film needs to reach a global audience.

         Your paper should be between two and three pages,

Answer 1

Outbreak of corona virus is a global issue. It is affecting life of many people. The outbreak of this pandemic killed thousands of people. I think making a " Corona virus film " will be appropriate and ethical because our future generation will get to know about it and how to tackle such a situation.

As a filmaker, before making the movie, I will collect lot of information about it such as it's origin, causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment, and regions affected. The movie will look like a issue of global crisis and how human being fought with it. The filmmakers would look back in time to tell the story about it's effect on the life of human being. It has devastating effect on the life of human being, hence we can show the possible preventive techniques used by human being to fight with it.

As a filmmaker, I will start telling the story from the origin of the corona virus. Various rumours of conspiracy are spreading that corona virus is created by China to use as bioweapon against their enemies. China claim that it was started by the United States of America. Therefore, first of all, various viewpoint needs to be shown about the rumours of conspiracy. As the outbreak of corona virus started from Wuhan, China, so this scenario should be shown first in the film. After that, how it was started affecting the life of people of Wuhan needs to be shown. Starting of the movie must be set in Wuhan, China. It's initial symptoms and how people didn't care about it, must be shown. Then how it was first started spreading to other regions must be shown. We can use various characters and visuals in the movie. The various characters includes, a doctor as a hero who saves lives of many people, nurses of the hospital, governments of various countries, WHO executives, presidents of China and The United States of America, world's top leaders, and the affected people. In the movie, conditions of Italy must be shown. Deaths of people must be told to show the devastating effects of corona virus.

If we survive, then we can tell about a good ending. At the ending, we will show the efforts made by the people to fight with it. How the various governments dealt with it, must be told. At the ending, we will show the making of antidode. In movie, the contribution of various stakeholders to control the outbreak of it, must be shown. We would show a happy ending where the last patient of this disease has cured and WHO annouces it's complete elimination from the world.