The topic I am looking at immigration is so in the public eye at the moment and has been for the past few years. With the inception of the jungle camp in Calais in (2002),the situation really showed the desperation of people to get away to a better life. With it now being closed down as of October 28th 2016 the immigration issue is constantly putting itself on the front pages, with Brits not able to look away.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3890940/Cleared-Infamous-Calais-Jungle-camp-finally-destroyed-shelters-demolished.html
An article here from the Mail online shows the final moments of the week long debacle to get people out of the camp and destroy it.
The situation at Calais is in turn just forcing the people elsewhere and to try again to get to the UK. More and more stories are cropping up about lorries which have been found to contain many immigrants in dire need of help.
Eve children and baby's:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-37845838
The issue is not exclusive to the UK either, the problems on the US-Mexican border have been ongoing for many years and are still going on.
It is such a surreal and unusual thing to see migrants in the back of lorries, not something British people see everyday. Despite it being in the news constantly at the moment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3881712/Migrants-filmed-jumping-lorry-onions-parked-just-M25-Kent.html
I will have to be realistic in my depiction of the brothers situation. I have a lot to use as inspiration for my lorry. As this will be an important part of the film the production design here will have to be on point and realistic, showing the cramped conditions and lack of food and water.
Lorry cargo
What is in the lorry can be beneficial for the story, so I have been doing some research into potential cargo for the lorry driver to be hauling.
From the most bizarre:
http://www.oddee.com/item_98080.aspx
to the more sensible, according to facts and figures:
The following product groups represent the highest dollar value in United Kingdom’s import purchases during 2015. Also shown is the percentage share each product category represents in terms of overall imports into United Kingdom.
- Machines, engines, pumps: US$83.4 billion (13.3% of total UK imports)
- Vehicles: $76.8 billion (12.3%)
- Electronic equipment: $61 billion (9.7%)
- Oil: $50.8 billion (8.1%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $33.1 billion (5.3%)
- Gems, precious metals: $30 billion (4.8%)
- Medical, technical equipment: $18.2 billion (2.9%)
- Plastics: $17.7 billion (2.8%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: $15.6 billion (2.5%)
- Clothing (not knit or crochet): $11.3 billion (1.8%)
These facts are from this page below:
However depending on where the story goes my driver may not know what he is carrying as he has been instructed never to look just drive and say that it is clothes of some description.
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