The Awakening Dialectical Journal

Title: Awakening
Log Line
The science fiction/ thriller webisode series ‘Awakening’ follows the morphed life of Edward Avery, a peculiar financial adviser whose soul begins to unravel as he discovers the truth about his existence.
Treatment
Drowning in his stressful work load, Edward Avery becomes detached from the world around him, unable to sleep comfortably at night. The numbness he feels begins to concern his long-time girlfriend Rose, as she urges him to sleep. His erratic behaviour morphs him into a person who is no longer recognisable. Looking for a quick escape from reality, Edward turns to sleeping pills. His addiction causes him to overdose, landing him in hospital induced in a coma.
However this traumatic event never registered

Karl’s strange behaviour becomes an important part of Edward’s imaginary life as Karl’s’ riddles, metaphors and directions enable Edward to uncover the truth about his conscious state. Edward befriends Karl in hopes that he will be able to find out how to awake from his coma. After solving the riddles and applying the metaphors and direction he is given by Karl, Edward gets closer to finding the location in his mind where the last time he truly felt happy and safe in his memories occurred. Edward realises that if he is able to reach this destination he will set him free from his

Their lives continue to exist within their imagination. As their ‘lives’ continue, strange phenomena begin to occur as the time they have been induced in the coma progresses. Once these phenomena begin to regularly occur, Karl appears as a figment of their imagination. Karl appears in the form of a short, hunchback-like 20 year old who portrays himself as a strange, disorganised man. His unusual dress sense and unwashed hair displays his disjointed personality to whom must force Edward to believe his life is not what it seems to be. Karl’s role in Edward’s life is a visionary and guide to uncover the truth about his state of mind, helping him to find how he is meant to wake up from the coma through riddles, directions and other means.
Death
Summary:
Once the strange happenings begin to occur in Edward’s life, a dark figure begins to follow him which he does not notice at first. Death is portrayed as the shadowy figure, dressed in pants, a hoodie and shoes all of which are black. He is a mysterious figure who metaphorically represents death. As time passes and Edward is running out of time to discover how to wake up, death comes nearer. This is represented by death moving closer towards Edward in every situation. If death becomes Edward’s fate, he will be consumed by death