Research and Planning - Video

Treatment

(This is the improved version of our treatment which consists of the feedback, which was given by the class, fused into it)

The film is about a couple and the girlfriend has health issues which she does not want to disclose to her boyfriend, she believes that it is not fair on him that he has to live with her illness so she decides to leave him. So one day whilst the boyfriend is at work she decides to leave. She leaves in letter explaining her reasons for leaving. The film starts with the camera is going around the couple’s room and this will establish the scene, also here we will see a girl on the bed writing a letter but the camera goes past and does not really focus on her. Then we use a close up shot to zoom into a photo of the couple. As the camera is zoomed into the photo, here we will us editing to add in shots of the couple a few years back having a picnic. We will show how they got together through flashbacks. These scenes are going to be shot in the park. When the flashback ends the girl is shown walking out the room. An hour later we are introduced to the boyfriend and he is shown coming into the room, we will zoom into a clock to show time going past. As the protagonist patrols the room he discovers a letter by their photo, he opens it and reads it. He is shocked by what he is reading, reading through the letter he finds out about her illness and that she has decided to leave him.

 

He runs out the house and drives around looking for her. Millions of flashbacks are going through his mind at this point and he figures out that she has been rather strange lately. We will portray things such as the girlfriend being tired most of the time, looking very ill and so on. There will also be a key scene here where he finds a letter, whilst in the flashback, addressed from the hospital in her name but however he does not pay attention to it. Here he will find out that he might have been neglecting her. We will use the fade effect to convey each part of the flashback and the transition from one flashback to another and also in the end we repeatedly switch from one flashback to another to illustrate that the protagonist is going ballistic and is not in the right state of mind. He drives past the hospital thinking she might be in there so he turns back. Driving at full speed to reach the hospital so he can see what is dearest to him, his girlfriend, maybe for the last time. He drives closer and closer to the hospital and is at a ferocious speed, not aware of his surroundings. He is just focused on reaching that hospital. Suddenly as he looks at his windscreen he sees a woman, he breaks but not hard enough and the woman comes thumping onto the car and then the floor. He rushes out of his car to see that it is his girlfriend. The protagonist, in disbelief, looks down and the film ends. Our film is a romance film which has a very different twist to it and is different from the typical love film where the lovers reunite in the end. We believe this will appeal to our audience.

 

The genre of our film is romance/drama. Our audience is people aged between 16 to 25, as the couple in our film is a young couple. We’ve decided not to make our film no longer than four minutes as it would be too lengthy and may bore the audience. For our film we will need only two people and we want them to be engaged throughout the film. Everything in film happens in the same hour so therefore we will not need many props. The only place we will need some props is the scene where the protagonist is going through the flashbacks. For this we will only need a change of clothes for each character and this can easily be attended to. The location of the film is mostly going to be on the roads so therefore we thought we’d use small quiet estate roads so therefore it’d be easier to film the crash scene without causing trouble for the public and other drivers. We are still working on the getting our actors but this task can easily be handled as we know many people who will be willing to be in the film but we just need to pick the right person for each parts. We are planning our film to be mainly on youtube, this will be our main platform. We are also thinking of also uploading our film onto facebook.