PLANNING: FILM TREATMENT

PLANNING: FILM TREATMENT

Write a treatment for your film opening. A treatment will normally contain:

• A title that is dynamic and engaging
• The top line - an 'elegant sentence' that sums up the action
• The big question - what is the cliffhanger? what is the enigma that will unfold?
• The synopsis - one or two paragraphs outlining the plot
• Characters - brief introduction: Adam, 35, a dreamy design engineer.... Lucy, 25, a disenchanted doctor... Mary, 18, an idealistic student...

NEXT 

• After writing the treatment, you create a STORYBOARD  (hand drawn on the sheets that I give you)
• and a SHORTLIST

BRAINSTORM INITIAL IDEAS

• Girl with super brain being stalked by crazy doctor or scientist
• Aimed at a younger audience, that being young adults potential teenagers
• The scientist wants to take the girl completely to study her and take as a test subject 
• Potentially the government after her
• Some potential locations include; a hospital, train station, science lab

We initially brainstormed multiple different ideas and genres to start off with. We have access to a boat house, and therefore thought planning something which involves that location would be successful. 

Locations for Shots:

• London
• Train station 
• Hospital 
• Elevator
• Woods
• Empty car park
• Walking down an empty dark road
• Dark room hacker screens 

Props: 

• Pin Board
• Documents
• Pictures
• Files
• Doctors notes 
• earphones 

Effects:

• Clips from YouTube
• Titles
• Background music/sounds
• Filters
• POV filters

Simple shots ideas:

• Earphones in music playing walking down lonely street, music out silence. Mixed shots of doctor and girl to create following creepy scene
• Dark room with hacker screens and reflecting in glasses 

Behind the scenes:

We printed images of my friend, Millie, then wrote on the images with

with a red pen to look like she's being stalked. 

We used youtube to create these hacking effects on the screen. 

Here Ollie is taking pictures of Millie through the trees, the long shot with 

trees obstructing the view of the camera will create the feel of that she's being watched. 

Liv is taking more pictures of Millie to add the the "stalkers" collection.