Brief Story Structural Outline

Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Title: Tangent

Opening: A teenage boy is travelling back from a party from the night before and along the way home he sees strange, apocalyptic imagery and scenes along with flashes of events to come. Among these events are a leaflet for an upcoming election and a cup smashing.  The boy begins to notice these scenes more and more as he goes further and becomes convinced of the reality of what he is seeing. The opening will end with him returning to his room and the screen will reveal the title with a countdown of the days remaining.

Relation to rest of story: The boy begins to realise that he is plagued with images of events to come and must attempt to prevent an oncoming event (the end of the world).  He must do whatever it takes to prevent the end, from prevention of events to taking a life for the fate of the world, he must push himself to his limits to save us all. The events become indicators that the world is still on the tangent timeline and he must attempt to change it.