Treatment Idea 1

Plot

Set in Wem, A teenaged boy walks down the street with the feeling of being followed.

A silhouette appears in the corner of his eye.

He picks up his pace and starts to run down an ally way. ( lose ups of the feet with a mixture of mid shots, with the introduction of drum and string instruments to create atmosphere.)

Runs out of the ally way confused and scared, walks home to talk about what just happened in the ally way.

Mise en Scene

Busy Street to show commotion or a contrast with an empty street.

Dark ally way

Visual feel

Shaky camera for the running as if you were being chased, with an on board camera for the person being chased. To help the atmosphere and the feeling of the movie.

Continuity video

Problems that we faced.

Getting the film from camera to the computer was easy to do, but none of us had any idea of what to do next during the editing process because none of us has any experience in the editing process. The progress that we used was final cut express, which with some help from the teaching staff and fellow students, we were able to edit our film.

What went well.

The filming aspect of the continuity video was easier than editing because we kept on referring to the tory board, whilst tweaking to suit the feel of a particular part in the video.

Storyboard

Bourne Ultimatum Opening Review

The Bourne Ultimatum is the third instalment in the Bourne Series.

The Universal opening has string and drum instraments before and thing has started to create an atmosphere and the feel of what is about to come.

It starts with a close up on somebodies feet. The heavy breathing from this character makes the audience wunder why are they breathing heavily.

Then it goes into a mid shot of Jason Bourne, now reveling the person to the audience in who the feet and the breathing was coming from in the first place.

The camera follows Jason as a rugged mid shot as if we were following him or just a predestian in the street with him.

A train horn sounds and Bourne looks at the train station, but the camera follows Bourne in his action and pans to the station to show that is the place he needs to go to get away. When Bourne looks there the sound of police cars sounds in the distance, this tells the audience that he might be getting chased. So, the train is needed to get him away.

Another POV reverse as if your Bourne or someone else, this get the audience involed with the film.

When he enters the pharmacist the music tempo increases and turns into drums, this helps the feel of the section of the films genre and face pace thriller style.

Once the flash back is happening it in voles fast edits from one to another.

The camera is a mixture of POV, shaky shots as if your Bourne and experiencing it for yourself. The feel of this part is not very nice because its all blurred and distorted mixed in with fast edits and a mixture of shots.

Bournes heavy breathing throughout this piece dominates and any thing else that is going on through, this makes the audience uneasy on viewing it.

Fighting, between cop and Bourne the music id re-added, fast drums, but it stops as soon as Bourne holds the other police officer at gun point.

The camera keeps on Bourne and the cop, when the radio is asked for, the camera didn't go to Bournes foot when he crushes the radio.

The did that to create atmosphere and to keep the tension between the two characters and the question that we are thing, Will Bourne kill the officer? The introduction of string instruments at that time makes the situation uneasy to watch.

"My Argument is not with you" can be linked to the flash back of unanswered wuestion, that he has to find out.

The opening scene of the film sets the tone of what it about to come, with face pace editing, mixture of close ups and mid shots and the style of music that they used in scene to create the atmosphere and the suspense of the film.

Research: James Bond - Die Another Day

Start: opens with face in the water, with contrasting female figures swimming around his face.
0.05: Black screen (extreme close up) zooms out to scorpion stinger/tail, actors name starts to fade in and comes to mid screen
0.12: eye, midscreen. Titles in eye that are in contrasting colour to rest of eye this is to make the bold effect
0.14: writing stays then fades: the opening then reverts back to the drowning screen. this is then interrupted by glass breaking, this creates both a mirror effect and uncertainty.
0.16: Back to the scorpions. Title screen. this stays on...
0.20: introduction of fire, signifying danger and death. the credits are positioned on the bottom left hand corner of the screen this placement is used throughout the opening. they then start to mix real images with special effect generated images, his hanging body being in flames, flicks between the two.