Treatment 2

Treatment

·         The genre of my short film is a comedy.

 

·         The summary of my short film is firstly the main character is planning to get to the Olympic stadium however although this is the base line of the story the concept is to make a mockery of modern day stereotypes. The main character is a foreigner who has just got out of the airport and his journey begins by getting into a minicab. This journey will consist of many difficulties each with a specific purpose, the main character doesn’t speak however use his face and body to express his feelings and point of view, this will be further strengthened with the use of sound effects.  Our short film consists of the main character being quiet (no diologue) throughout the whole film however we use music to explain his emotions. We also have a taxi driver to take him to the Olympic stadium but the taxi driver ends up kicking him out of the taxi because he checks the drivers personal bag because his suspicious the driver is a terrorist. We also have a lot of other characters as people who give him directions to the stadium once he gets booted out the taxi. There is a beautiful girl as another character because he falls in love with her when he finds her on the bus. And lastly we have the ticket inspector at the Stratford station which tells him that his ticket is expired. The theme of our short film is basically the comedy that the foreigner (main character) does during his journey.  

 

·         Our ideas are inspired by Mr Bean, in his films he doesn’t speak but the audience can understand what is going in the scenes. We are using this similar style of comedy in our short film as well. However what makes us different is that we are putting music behind particular scenes to add greater satire. We have also used inspiration from comedies such as Desmond’s, this is a comedy has an African identity which will help us to get an idea of what African culture consists of so aspects can be portrayed in to our film. Also another comedy that helped to inspire our film was Goodness Gracious Me. This is a comedy based greatly on Asian culture, it manipulates and makes fun of specific traditions or norms in their culture. This is what makes the comedy so funny and successful and it’s the type of concept we will try to implement in our film.

 

·         The audience for our short film are teens between the ages of 12-19, our film is sports related and the jokes portrayed on our short film are kind of mature. For example during the bus journey his gaze falls upon a beautiful girl and falls in love so he starts to day dream about her. So the topic of love and falling easily in love will be related to teens and their lifestyle so they will be able to connect with the scenes. 

 

·         The approximate length of our film will be 4-5mins.

 

·         We will need permission to film on the bus from the bus driver, when he gets a ride to Stratford station. We will also need permission of people on the road when he randomly asks them for directions. One of our group members can drive so he will be acting out as the taxi driver. When he gets to the station he gets stopped by the ticket inspector and that’s when he finds out that the ticket is expired, so we will need to ask permission if we can film the ticket inspector.

 

·         When he is on the taxi, the taxi driver tries to act like a terrorist and he is dressed out in a religious garment and has a bag on the passenger seat which is where the main character thinks the bomb is, however we obviously are not trying to offend anyone.

 

·         Our film could be screened on youtube because it is a short clip.