Personal Treatment

Storyline - there are two boys in a playground having a kick about. The ball gets kicked into the garden behind the goal area so one of the boys has to go into the garden and fetch it. He sneaks into the garden but doesn't come back. There are then many point of view shots of the boy being dazed as he's been kidnapped by a strange man who keeps in hostage. The boys friend who he was playing football with is now wondering where he's gone as he goes into the garden but can't see anything and the house looks empty. The man finally releases him a few hours later but his memory is gone and he doesn't know who is friend is or anything that's happened to him.

Setting - the setting is in a park with the next door neighbors garden opposite. There is also a shot of Jack in a red phone box ringing Ben's parents saying he's gone missing into this mysterious house.

Characters - the boy who is kidnapped is going to be played by Ben Oakley and the other  boy is going to be played by Jack Smith. The kidnapper is going to be played by Fraser Diamond.

Visual Style - the majority of the filming is going to be done by Fraser Diamond although we will all contribute when Fraser is being filmed. We are all going to edit the film together.

Group Treatments

Storyline - two boys wake one morning covered in blood after having an overdose of magic mushrooms, they then begin having flashbacks of what happened the night before. These flashbacks involve hallucination to the point they think a man walking a dog in the forests is a murderer, so they end up beating him to death. The title of the story is going to be Come Down!

Setting - the boys wake up in one of the boys bedroom one morning and the flashbacks are set in a forest.

Characters - the boys are going to be played by Jack Smith and Benedict Oakley and the man walking the dog will be played by Fraser Diamond.

Visual Style - The main camera work will be done by Fraser Diamond, and we will all help with editing. We're going to hope for cold overcast weather to give a dark mysterious mood.

Other Credits - after we've done all our filming on the editing stage we're going to have an extremely fast rewind after they wake up in bed. Also, as we can't show violence we're going to have a blackout when the boys kill the man and just do noises of him being beaten to death with the dog barking.

Storyboard

Whilst filming our idea we began to change our ideas as some things weren't working. This may be because we didn't do enough trial shooting so some of our ideas didn't work. Such as taking drugs was difficult as it didn't look realistic at all. We have kept the idea of it being in a wood although its changed to being called 'Watched' as we feel this would bring more suspense for an opening of a film. We use the night mode tool on the camera as point of view shots, we feel this works well and feedback also think this works well. The polaroid idea came about as we wanted to use stills in our film to enhance the name 'Watched'. We put stills in but it didn't give the image that these photo's have been taken by the person watching them, this is why we used to polaroids. 

The film ends with the boys being separated and the man watching them strangling one of the boys. This makes a good ending to the beginning of a film as it makes the viewer want to view further. 

Recce Photo's

 

We took these recce photos as potential places we could do our filming at. All these photos are very mysterious places that would make a good thriller opening. These photos are all taken locally to our college so it is easy to access when we're doing our filming. However, the train line and building site would be difficult to film at as they're dangerous areas.

Shot Sizes

Close up

Medium Close up

Long Shot

Extreme Close up

Action Code

Enigma Code

Over Shoulder Shot

Establishing Shot

Point of View Shot