Filming section of Treatment

This is just key points of what we would be doing during our filming sessions:

Zoom to capture the facial expressions of characters.

Over the shoulder shoulders will used to show the two people talking to each other

We would also be having our 2 main characters sitting at a dinner table so we would have to set up cameras that will be surrounding the characters and making sure that each character will be on the same side.

The aim of our story will be to motivate our audience into believing themselves and don’t let other push you down and always go for your dreams but you also have to be realistic about them too.

There would be non-diegetic music

The location of the filming will be in a house and on a rugby field. The reason why we have chosen to film at these two locations is because the main character (Jake) is a rugby player and also whilst they are having dinner they would be in a house.

Whilst making this film we want achiever getting the grittiness of Jake (lead role) working hard whilst training. We would try to achieve by him practising attacking an opponent or defending and capturing his facial expression by using an extreme close up shots. The reason why we want capture this scene is because we want the audience to see that nothing will stop him from achieving his goal and that he would keep persevering.

We would also have a flash back scene where we fade out of the current scene and fade in an event that happened previously. To show this we could have the flashback in black and white so the audience will be aware as this is a past event not the present.

Atonement (2007) - Official Trailer

The film is about a little girl named Briony that mistakenly reported a family friend named Robbie of a crime he did not commit and he sent to prison and after to the army. Later on as the little was growing she was never able to forgive herself for telling lies to the police and she made it her mission to apologise to her older sister Cecilia and Robbie, which as her sister's boyfriend. As she was doing this, Briony also had a passion for writing so she decided to write a book based on what happened in her life however instead of putting an unhappy ending she concluded it with a happy one because she believed that as the rightful ending that the story was supposed to have.

Whilst watching this movie I thought that this will help my group to include a twist into our film because this will capture the audiences attention and make them want to watch the film until the end. This movie had a twist off showing the movie in the past tense and this made the audience think that it was the reality but actually it was Briony telling the story of what happened in the past.

My section of the treatment - Filming

In my section of the treatment I will be talking about the the different angles that we would be using whilst filming and talking about why we would be using them. This will help us to understand what we have to do and help generate even more ideas on how to approach a certain emotion.

Plot Twist

As a group we came across the question of adding in a plot twist of having our two main characters (Jake and Naomi) having a argument at the dinner table. This causes tension between the two characters and also the audience as well. The reason being is because we would want to show the love between Jake (lead role) and Naomi (girlfriend of lead role) this will make the audience instantly love their relationship and eventually their relationship could be close to ending. This will be a unpredictable event and make the audience wondering what will happen next. 

Logline

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up" - Babe Ruth

Second Meeting

I must say that the second meeting that my group had last week was very successful. We were able to develop our film idea further. Our idea has developed to do being about a guy being a boxer and he has always been Mr. Third but at one point he becomes Mr. Second. The guy is happy that he is able to achieve as great as that because he has finally beat someone that used to be higher than he was. We also came up with the idea that in one scene of our film it will show a the guy a sitting at a dinner table eating dinner with his girlfriend. However his girlfriend is the type of person that always comes first in everything. The guy is then ready to tell his girlfriend that he has improved in boxing but just before he can say anything, his girlfriend says that she has become manager of a company she works or something along those lines. So within the relationship there is tension between the two because they are also competing against each other. This has a major effect on the guy. His self esteem and ego has just shattered because his very own girlfriend was able to beat him.

Late Post - First Meeting

So my group have had their first meeting and got to know who we all were. Coming up with an idea for this project was quite idea as none of us knew where to start. Until one member decided we should do a short film about sports. I wasn't too keen on this idea because I didn't think that this idea will make our viewers watch. I felt like our idea needed more work and some sort of twist. The members in my group were very helpful because of them knew some actors. So I feel that maybe just maybe our group will have a chance in making a good film if we did more research and developed our idea further.