Friday, November 5, 2021

PLANNING: INITIAL FILM TREATMENT

TITLE: Usually a good title is used to present a solid central idea - STALKER, UNSETTLED, JAMAIS SEUL "never alone", abnormal, extortionary, nature of human kind,  sui generis, 


LOGLINE: A one/two sentence stating an idea proposal - Girl with full access to her whole brain instead of just 10% like the normal human being has caught the attention of doctors and the government. Therefore, they try to catch her to use her for selective breeding. 

SYNOPSIS: Outlines the key idea in more detail (300-500 words)

CHARACTERS: outline each main character with a short description and introduction 

TOPLINE: an 'elegant sentence which sums up the action' 

BIG QUESTION: What is the enigma which will unfold? Will the scientist catch the super human girl?

NEXT:
  •  After writing the treatment, you create a STORYBOARD (hand drawn on sheets we are given) which presents a brief visual idea of a storyline 
  • and a SHOTLIST


BRAINSTORMING IDEAS:

 

 
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

FILM IDEAS:

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 agent and girl to create following creepy scene. 
  • Dark room with hacker screens and reflecting in glasses
  • Through ambulance wheel shot of agent walking out
  • "Don`t worry leave it to me" chair scrape back low angle shot followed by door open and walking out. 

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