TRIBES - SCRIPT

TRIBAL RIVALY
The Visuals arent necessarily in chronological order.
IMAGES

WORDS/VO

We open on a
close up of a
persons eye.

MUSIC
AND SFX
MOODY
DARK
(ANCIEN
T WAR
CRY)

We cut to
another
extreme close
up of fingers
dipping into a
pot of face
paint.

Close up as
the fingers
apply
black/tribal
paint just
below the eye
Archive cave
painting
archive stills

Translucent
evolution of
man using
overlapping
archive
footage.
Fingers
applying paint
Relevant
Visuals

Since the dawn of time. Man has felt the

need, the urge to belong. We gathered
SFX of
as herdsman for shelter, for warmth, for early
safety.
man
(war cry)
The evolution of mankind has witnessed
the results of this burning desire to be a
part of something greater than oneself.

SFX of
war,
burning
villages,
pillage,
screamin
g, death

... This we call

War cry

TRIBE
Relevant
Visuals

The concept of tribe has been such that

Backing
track

it has defined us as a race, it has made

us stronger, faster and more powerful
than any other creature on earth.
Relevant
Visuals

Over the millennia it has proved

costlyone tribe versus another
through war.we have seen
destructionannihilationchaos

Fingers
applying paint
Relevant
visuals
Possible
graphic match
of tribes and
football fans in
order to
foreshadow
Possible
graphic match
of tribes and
football fans
(on a hill top)
in order to
foreshadow
Relevant
Visuals

war cry

But still we survive.still we

thrive.still we remain alive.

But man has also learnt to try and

attempt to quell this madness. He has
also evolved and has tried to tame the
tribal instinct.
The progression of man and the concept
of tribe run parallel.

Relevant
Visuals

An emotional
strong,
passionate
medley of the
greatest
football
moments

It is true that we have pursued peace by

shackling our inner beast and we have
found a way of unleashing the barbarian
within.
We have found a place.we have found
a time.and its called Saturday

The roar
of a
football
crowd
MOTD
theme
tune
comes

on 10
secs
We cut in and
out of face
being painted
with white and
blue paint

Fans
cheer

(Gary Neville
unbelievable
Vardy goal of
the season,
Aguero
winning the
league, Drogba
Champions
league after
every scene
we cut to the
fans

Football
SFX

Filling visuals

Fade to Black
and stay for
few seconds
Football
hooligans of
70s 80s
Football
hooligans and
warring tribes
from an
ancient past.
(Action match
between
shots).
INTERVIEWS
With
Policeman
With 80s fan

The football fan is one of the most

passionate animals on earthhe finds
his place, his peoplehis tribe. This
environment is what awakens the
primeval man. This is what drives the
fan
But at times this dark side reverts back
to the primitive.

Backing
track

Then it is difficult to distinguish

between man and animal.

Backing
track

And then we wonder, if we have really

evolved at all.

(Cut in and out of footage of

hooliganism)

[Fade in and out of interview and

experiential, realistic footage of
relevant topic]
Cut in and out

With fan

Short snappy interviews pre-match,

asking questions to do with the animal
within

The passion of
fans, the
passion of war
tribes

Tribal
SFX
Sound of
drums

We resolve
with our man
in the mirror
applying his
face paint. He
turns around
to reveal he
has half his
face painted in
tribal paint and
half in football
colours.
Arial shots of
stadiums
Black & white
stills of players

Tribalism has manifested in

contemporary society in no greater way
than the creation of the national sport
football.

Ancient
war cry

The FA
president
signing the
first document
of the FA rules
Arial shot of
the UK

Football invented with [xx] rules by a

group of men from, in the year [xx].

This pastime became so widespread

across the British Isles that soon every
city, every town and every village had
its own team.
These clubs pitted against other local
sides to prove their skill, their strength,
and their sense of prowess.

Soon these cities, towns, villages

created a powerful growing sense of
identity; giving the inhabitants a new
feeling of belonging but not just to a
family, a workplace, a set of houses but
to a greater spirit

Archive
footage of a
coal mine
(working class)
town
Footage of two
local teams
playing
Archive
footage of a
coal mine
(working class)
town)

Pull out of one

face to many
original fans
(on a terrace)
Archive still of
black and
white
Newcastle
strip
Chants of
crowds at
football games
(70s or 80s)
Footage of
tribes with
spears
Then footage
of players
running with
the ball
Footage of
Hooliganism

A body of values, beliefs, and of shared

characteristics.

Footage of
strikes,
unemployment
queues, poll
tax riots
Stills / footage
of electric
fences, street
battles, police
rioting,

In a world where jobs were few, money

was short, wear escapism was sort
through the anonymity often discovered
in the herd of the crowd.

Such was the savage and wild notoriety

that running street battles with police
were commonplace, electric fences
were erected at football grounds and
water cannons and police horses were
introduced to maintain social order.
It became such a social problem that
every single English team was banned
from playing in Europe for half a
decade. (Heysal stadium).

(Heysal
stadium).

Hillsborough
disaster

Tribal paint had become the colour of a

strip.

Tribal war cries became the rallying

chants of the terraces.

Where once warring tribes would run at

each other with spear in hand, today it
is running at each other with ball at
foot.

The power of this game became so

intense that 100 years after its creation,

through the 70s and 80s, tribalism
boiled over into a new behaviour. This
they called hooliganism! Street violence
and the dark side of the human
character had once again reared its ugly
head.

The through the ultimate tragedy, it was

realised that if football were to survive

this ugly side of tribalism had to be

defeated.
Empty new
stadiums, new
ticket prices,
police
presence

We had to do something so pricing

strategies changed, zero tolerance was
incorporated, all-seater stadiums were
mandatory, and eventually the evil
hooligan was crushed, defeated, left
weak and gasping for air. Football had
saved itself just.

Flashes of
football
commentators
in different
languages
Germany
lifting the cup
Show FIFA HQ
Pogba being
signed for
89m

150 years since the FA first created

those [xx] rules, the game remains

bigger and greater than ever before and
is played in 199 countries.
With the World Cup the most valuable
prize of all football is the most lucrative
financial global sport of all time.
The British Isles remains the home of
football the home of the English
Premiership, the most expensive and
most successful league in the world.
Where a single player can cost 100
million pound equal to the GDP of a
small nation!

Cut to tribal
side of face,
quick black
screen
Cut to other
side of face
(football side)
then cut to
black
Fade into front
of face and
slow zoom out
to reveal half
and half

The fans still support their teams

through thick and thin, together and
united they stand.

That sense of belonging of identity is

stronger today then it ever has been.

The tribesman within all of us is alive

and well.

General notes:
Relevant visuals = archive footage and applying the face paint
Archive footage of every decade emphasises timeline appeal

Interview with police officer cross cutting in and out as well 80s
football fan
Applying face paint cuts in and out
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