Treatment

story-line

Starts with a split screen of the 2 men smartly dressed, 1 sat with his briefcase waiting for a phone call in the Town Hall and the second parking up in a silver car pulling his phone out. After the call has been made both start walking along Wem High-street towards The Reck, the camera being fixed on the briefcase using a split screen on both case's. Then one man sits on the bench waiting for the other, 5 mins later the other man sits next to the first man and they swap over the two briefcase's and they walk off and then slowly fade to black slow motion both of them walking in opposite directions from the bench as the screen gets darker.

Characters:

2 men 

Setting:

Wem Town Hall, The Reck, Wem

Camera editing style:

Focused

Working title:
The Switch

story board for thriller opening

These are scanned images of the storyboard i drew out, every time a new camera angle is used there is a new storyboard drawing. We kept our storyboard simple and easy to follow and used the 6th storyboard image as just text because it reminds us of the editing we are going to use. the 6th storyboard image is a point of view shot of one man walking up the street to meet the other man and exchange briefcases (this would be a hard image to draw). Extreme close-ups are used on watches and mobile phones as an action code showing us that action is about to happen, in this short films case, the meet-up and the swapping of the mysterious briefcases which we don't find out what is inside either. Close-ups will be used to show emotions and tense atmosphere when the men meet up and swap briefcases, a establishing shot is used in this scene and the opening to set the scene and finally point of view shots and over the shoulder shots will be used in the swapping of briefcases. Loads of different camera cuts and positions is very necessary in this scene to build tension and pick the pace up on the film to make it a good thriller.

Risk Assesment

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Legal and Ethical

Legal and Ethical issues related to my thriller opening

Legal
Product placement
There will be no product placement throughout the movie. Product placement is when films include specific products (Such as James Bonds's Aston Martin) and advertise them generally for money.

Certification (BBFC)
The opening sequence of the film would be rated U due to the fact that no language, sex, nudity, drugs etc is shown. The film as a whole would more than likely be rated 15 as frequent use of strong language will be used and violence may be strong. Filming of the violence in the rest of the thriller will not focus heavily on blood, gore and injuries so we feel that the 18 rating was too much.  We thought that we would try to keep the film into a lower classification as possible in order to be appeal to a wider variety of audience. I gathered information of certification guidelines from the BBFC website.

Copyright
Their are no copyright issues within the Thriller opening sequence. However the script will be copyrighted by us and all of the work we did was our own (for example we did not use a copyrighted music track)

Ethical
Drugs
Drugs are not used or referenced at all during our thriller opening sequence. if we did reference drugs we would not be allowed to encourage drug misuse within the rating of a 15 film. also easily accessible drugs such as aerosols is unlikely to be acceptable

Sex
No sex or nudity is shown throughout the film, sex has a huge impact of how a film is rated. if the thriller did include a sex scene it would have to be rated 18.

Racism
Racism is unacceptable and unnecessary. It definitely will not be used in our thriller.

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thriller opening sequence