Thursday, 30 October 2008

Thriller opening treatment

Our plot for our thriller opening is a young girl around 17 has fallen into debt due a drug addiction a drug addiction that started from the bad influence of her boyfriend as a 'one of' thing of trying heroin but sadly ending up as a cold addiction. Finding it ever harder to beat the addiction a go cold turkey she splits with her boyfriend who is the one who is preventing the narcotic dealers from forcing the girl to pay the debt. So with no boyfriend to keep the heat off her she soon finds herself being threatened by the gangsters for the money she is in owes them. This ends nastily as the gangster known as tony kills the girls family ( mother and young brother) as the girl did not take the threast seriously and still found it hard to stop her addiciton.

This plot will be told between cuts of the young girl in the near future walking down a beach in black and white looking 'rough and hagard'. It will contrast to the filming of the past memories as they will be shot in colour as this connotates a vivid memory of the mentally scarring event in contrast to the present that just seems like a black and white blur and a wash of surrialism. This is the plot summary of the introduction but the introduction of the film is the end of the film as a whole cronnologically.

For our locations we have decided to use holkham Beach in North Norfolk for the wandering girl in black and white and then use my house for the flashbacks.

1 comment:

mw said...

I really like the concept of the opening. Simple and evocative 'mise-en-scene' and use of flashback is a recognisable convention.

Some typos/expression: 'Connotes a vivid memory'; 'wash of surrealism' needs defining. How is this surreal? 'Chronologically' this would be clearer if you described in detail shots/transitions and how flashback is introduced.

Allude to films you have researched to show why you made decisions in developing concept.