Treatment Template Final Idea

Treatment Template Final Idea

Title :

As a group we haven't yet come up with a title for our opening sequence , it's a working process which will be developed as we start and continue to film.

Names:

Lauryn Corbett, Sonny Rowling, Conor Drake, Enniola Silva

Date:

15/11/12

Production Company Name:

Group 1

Presents A :

Psychological Crime Drama ( Hybrid )


About A:

Young Girl  ( around 18 ) who gets into a relationship with an older male ( around 25 ).
At first we see the young girl in a dark apartment, with the spot light on her, from a long shot. The camera zooms in to a close-up of the girls hand, she's holding a bloody knife. The camera then pans up her arm and torso towards her face into a close-up so we can see her crying and all her make-up smudge. From here we start to see flashbacks of her and her boyfriend all happy, running through a field in the summer, flowy dresses and summery clothes worn, Us as an audience not seeing the boyfriends face so he remains a mystery character. Jumping between other flashbacks of her on the floor from a point of view shot so it feels like us as the audience are her, from a low angle looking up at this shadowy figure hitting her. After all the flashbacks it goes back into the the long shot of the girl in the room and we see blue flashes and hear police sirense, before the opening sequence ends.


Costumes :

For the Young girl in the flash backs she will be wearing quite summery clothes, a flowy dress or top, And for the present day when she is in the apartment she's wearing dark clothing, such as a black vest top and shorts, exposing her, showing bruises or wounds that she has encountered by her boyfriend beating her.

For the boyfriend we don't really see what he is wearing in the flashbacks as he is shown more as a dark figure, in the flashbacks of the summer he's still wearing dark clothes, covered up, jeans and a black t-shirt, to keep him more mysterious.


Camera :

To start off the opening sequence we will see a long shot of the young girl in the room, We can see that it's autumn/winter time from the window behind this enables us to get an idea of who the main character is and we can see what she looks like. Then by using close-ups on the knife and her face we are able to link the two ideas together, that she's upset because she's used the knife on somebody but we don't exactly see who.

At the beginning of the flashback an establishing shot is used to show the whole of the feild during the summer so the couple have space to run around e.t.c making the clip look quite happy and by the flashbacks being during summer and the present day being in autumn/winter we are able to create a time laps and as an audience get an idea of how long they have been together.

Then the whole storyline takes a turn when we see a low angle shot, point of view shot looking up at the boyfriend about to hit the young girl. by using the point of view shot it enables the us as an audience to feel like we are the young girl about to be beaten by this dark mysterious character, we feel what she feels, drawing the audience in and possibly as the dark shadow goes to hit her it's as if the camera falls over to the floor as if she has been knocked out or onto the floor, again it feeling like we are her as an audience.

The close-up flashes in betweeen each flashback of the girl a fast face speed, helping to make her look more psychopathic as we can see her getting more and more upset as she thinks about the whole of their relationship and how everything went wrong.


Sound:

Our opening sepuence isn't going to contain any dialogue we thought it would be more effective if we used soundtracks over the top with sound effects through the middle. By the characters not speaking it makes the audience think more whats happening in the clips and with the genre being a hybrid of a psychological crime drama aswell as us seeing how the domestic violence effects her it also effects us as an audience as it makes us think and peice the storyline together.

The opening music's going to be quite slow, not much going on just a low sounding note played for a really long time to create a tensious effect as we see the knife and her face as she's been crying. Then as the Happy flashbacks occur we hear happy music synchronus to whats happening in the clips, it makes us think that everything in the couples relationship is fine and that they are happy together. For the Domestic Violence scenes the music merges into a quite dark scratch soundtrack creating a tense and unhappy mood again synchrous to the clips.

We was thinking about having some sound effects, maybe some scratchy record noises as the music changes with the clips, and possibly during the violence scenes at the end we hear her scream so we know sort of that he has hurt her as the camera drops to the floor, and especially at the end we will here the police sirens outside of the room she is in.


Lighting :

There will be alot of lighting used in the opening sequence to help set the mood. during the first scene where we see the young girl in the room, the room will be very dark, the only light we see will be a spot light, possibly from a gap in the window shining down on the girl sitting on the floor so when we zoom into her face we can see that she's been crying and that she's angry quite clearly.

Throughout the opening sequence a range of saturated and de-saturated colours and tones. For the happy flashbacks the couple will be outside in a field. but because the flashbacks will be shown in a sepia or black and white colour we will lighten the brightness/contrast so it's quite bright to reflect the summer setting. As for the Violent scenes the couolour will remain the same either sepia/black and white but in a darker brightness/contrast so we feel the mood change.


Editing:

For the editing we was stuck on how we would encorperate slides showing the production name and the actors e.t.c My initial idea was that as the camera starts to zoom in during the long shot of the screen that it jaggers into black flashes showing the names of actors, the production names, and film title in and out each time the girl is shown getting closer and closer toward the camera, until finaly the film title is shown and there is the close up of her face.

When we are editing the clips together we will put in the sepia/black and white tones and change the contrasts of them during the flashbacks aswell as editing out anybackground noises as we dont want any dialogue or crackling sounds. As well as editing over the soundtracks during the scenes to fit the clips.


Gender Role Reversal and Binary Opposites:

We've kept to the idea that it's usually the male that uses domestic violence towards the woman accept in this case the situation gets too much for the young girl and she ends up lashing out and killing her boyfriend

There are binary opposites of age as she is 18 and he's 25 the contrast of the age difference is 7 years, not a typical relationship age as most people stick to people their own age or slightly older/younger not a big jump of 7 years. The idea that the girl stands up for herself but ends up killing her boyfriend when usually the male that uses domestic violence usually does end up killing or severaly hurting the girl.


Enigma Codes

Our opening sequence contains quite a few enigma codes, mainly from the psychological side of the genre, the audience are left to think about a lot of things, such as:

- Why is she holding a knife?
- Who has she killed?
- Why is she covered in cuts and bruises?
- What happens in the relationship for him to want to hurt her?
- Why does she want to be in a relationship with a man 7 years older than her?
- Why aren't her parents involved in her life?
- What does she do with the body that she's killed?
- Why does she feel killing him is the only way out of the situation?
- Why does she stay in the apartment after killing him?
- What happens with the police? do they take her away?
- What does the boyfriend look like? / Why can't we see what he looks like?
 
Executive Producers:

Miss.Butler and Mr.Lawes