Isolation Stories
A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with actors and their families filming the scenes themselves watched remotely by the directors. Each of the directors — Paul Whittington, Paul Andrew Williams, Louise Hooper and David Blair — will be watching footage via their mobile phones and giving advice to the actors and their family members about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting as they record the scenes.
Episodes
Alone, heavily pregnant and fed up with life, Mel faces having to go through the birth of her first child without the married father of her baby - who has chosen to stay with his wife and family - and without her own family, who have given her the cold shoulder. She might be the only person in the country who doesn’t mind isolation. At least everyone else will understand what it’s like to be miserable…
A father and son are isolated in the family home, but they would rather be anywhere than forced to be together like this, with only each other for company.
The worst fears of paranoid, self-absorbed hypochondriac Mike have come true. He relies on an old friend and therapist but who really is the patient?
A grandad resolves to bring his broken family together by visiting his son-in-law on the way to collect his essential grocery shopping. But his son-in-law isn't pleased to see him.
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