Treatment Re-Write

Over the weekend, I wrote up a new treatment idea. Within my treatment, I tried to keep some of the main elements of our original plot idea, however I have changed various parts.

New Treatment

 I based my new opening around both the original opening idea that our group had and the main inspiration to this new treatment, Fight Club. This is because Fight Club has a very strong psychological element to it, which is one of the key features that we plan to include within our opening sequence. It begins with a brief establishing shot of the area, which slowly begins to focus on the main character. We then, starting from his feet, see the camera slowly pan up his body in the 'calm atmosphere' side of the opening. We will then switch the shot to various 'fight' scenes that the main character 'psychologically' goes through every night. There are various shot types and editing techniques that I plan to include within these fight scenes. Firstly, a few of the shots will be filmed as if the audience is actually there witnessing it, and we will try and film parts above the action, trying to make the shot seem like its being filmed on a CCTV camera, which will be achieved in iMovie once we start editing.

This idea will be filmed in a number of ways to create various moods that are specifically associated with our genre: 

- Locations suitable to the plot ( Car Park for fight scenes, normal street setting for calm mood)

- Main character showing his psychological frustration

- Fights with the main character on his own (shows no-one being with him)

- Also showing shots with someone else with him

- Use various shot types within the action (extreme close-ups)

To show the CCTV effect, we are using this editing effect on iMovie: