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Unit 6: Commission

The Treatment

The Animation starts with an African village filed with straw

huts. In the centre of the village there is a stone fireplace which

has just been put out for the night and still emits smoke. The

time of the day is the evening when the sun is about to set, the

time when the African savannah looks its best and brings out

its natural beauty. The dominant colours are earth colours like

brown and gold which bring out the sand and the dry terrain. The bright sun light creates elongated dark shadows and makes

the tree silhouettes in the horizon stand out in front of the

red/orange sky.

The camera zooms in the inside of the furthest hut. Illuminated

by a source light coming from an opening of the hut’s roof, lays

a thick book on a wooden log. Its cover is made out of dry

leaves, bamboo and handmade paper from banana fibres. Thebook opens slowly and reveals a whole African world made out

of paper. As a pop up book, it unfolds into a small village with

paper figures of natives moving like marionettes. They are all

doing their everyday activities like preparing food, cleaning up

and taking care of their children. The camera zooms into a

mother figure sitting on a bench who sings a lullaby to her

baby.

The page then turns and unfolds into the same mother again

but in a bigger size. This time, the page is filled with tiny paper

mosquitoes which are attached with string and hover around

the mother’s baby. The book turns page again and this time

shows a monstrous mosquito (magnified) which flies onto the

baby’s shoulder and stings it. The mosquito is obviously

infected with the parasite and passes it on to whoever it stings.

The paper model of the baby’s skin shows the worm-looking

plasmodium parasites moving from the mosquito’s proboscis



into the baby’s bloodstream. The page turns and this time

showing the inside of the baby’s body. The parasites move to

the baby’s liver where they feed themselves on and reproduce.

Millions of parasites are being emitted to the body and return

to the bloodstream where they invade the red blood cells,

multiply from them and destroy them. The blood cells are

moving mechanically into the blood stream which is shown like

a tunnel merging into the book itself. The cycle continues as

the mosquitoes move to the rest of the natives spreading the

disease of ‘malaria’.

The page turns again showing the baby sick with a high

temperature and the mother feeling desperate for her child’sstate. The colours of this page are now dull representing the

situation. But there is a solution to the problem: A precaution

that could have been taken before the baby got infected and

that would have kept it healthy.

The book turns back to the first page where the mother was

trying to get her baby to sleep. An extra page attached to the

previous one opens out with a paper figure of a doctor holding

a vaccine. The page turns again to where the mosquito stung

the baby, but unfolds upwards showing the same image

without the insect this time. The doctor injects the baby and

inserts a small portion of the parasite into its body. The

lymphocytes then immediately produce antibodies which

unleash themselves from the lymphocyte’s tips and attack the

parasites by attaching themselves to their tips. The antibodies’

tips (paratopes) attach with precision onto the parasites’ tips

(epitopes) like a lock and key. After the ‘enemy’ has been

recognised by the antibodies the phagocyte cells are called in

and devour the parasites, protecting the baby from the

threatening foreign body.

The baby now, packed with antibodies that already recognise

the malaria parasite will be ready to tackle it the next time it

enters the body. So returning to the sting part page, the

mosquito does infect the baby but this time the already



existing antibodies which were produced from the injection deal

with the parasites directly and keep the baby safe. So now

returning to the last page, the gloomy atmosphere now gets

packed with light and colour, which symbolise the rebirth of

hope for the baby. The book closes.

THE END

The Step Outline

The sun is about to set in an African village revealing the

beauty of the savannah.

Inside a hut lays a chunky book made of raw materials and

opens wide as a pop up book. It depicts a village again, mad

out of paper and point out a mother on a bench singing alullaby to her baby.

But this touching scene is not as innocent as it looks. The baby

is in threat, being stung by an infected mosquito with malaria.

The parasite moves to the liver where I multiplies and then

again into the bloodstream where it destroys red blood cells,

leaving the child very sick.

But still, this terrible incident could have been avoided with thehelp of injections, which carry a small part of the parasite and

introduce the body to them beforehand, which leads to the

production of antibodies. The already produced antibodies are

now ready to fight the enemy the next time it invades the

body.

Being stung again the parasites are attacked by the

‘acknowledged’ antibodies as they attach on them like keys



and call the macrophage cells for ingestion. The baby is now

safe ready to continue its life.

Premise

Precaution is the best protection.

The Logline

Malaria can be tackled, with the help of vaccines and give an

ending to this terrible disease.

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