Treatment:

  

Treatment

For Ashe

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Prepared by Mele, Kevin and Porcia

5/03/2021

It is proposed that the film will be 1 to 1 ½ Minutes duration, and that it will be filmed at school, we have chosen this location because it is easy access for all of us as a group and because this is our first ever film, so we will need guidance from our teacher. ( Mele )

This film will include the following conventions of thriller films:

• Symbolism and Iconography: The hue of Red will symbolise death, the assassin will be wearing red, which links to the fact that red symbolises death, also linking to the fact that she is going to kill someone, assassinate. A gun will be held facing the second guy which will intensify the suspense being built up throughout the film.

• Sound: At the very beginning of the film we will have eerie and suspenseful music, to set the mood of the film, it will be very soft in volume. We will then have the diegetic sound of the phone call and the man talking. For the chase scene we will switch it up and have a fast and suspenseful beat to match with the chasing. 

• Lighting: Most of the lighting will be very dim and dark, and we will have a hue of red shown throughout the whole film.

• Narrative: The narrative itself has a climax point and has this sense of suspense right from the beginning of the film as the viewer views things from the assassinators point of view.(MELE)

After watching the following thriller films/thriller openings I have been influenced by: 

• The opening of Bourne Identity: The dark and low lighting. We have been influenced by using a symbolic colour in which we will use red to represent death and fear.

• The short film from Sherlock holmes: Dark lighting, obstruction (shadows), lots of different angles and movements, eerie music. (MELE)

• Thriller movies such as killers and Mr and Mrs Smith: The shooting scenes and the music and camera angles that really make the thriller suspenseful. (PORCIA)

Problems Encountered: 

We might not get the darker lighting we have pictured/imagined unless we edit in a darker light. There are no black hues to cover the lights with. We will make do with this problem by dimming the lights as much as possible and using back lit lighting to make the lighting darker. In some scenes we will have some light flowing in, for example scene 2 when the boss calls the assassin. (PORCIA)

The film will include the following:

• Character names and their motivations/representation in the film:

The Boss, wants to kill the victim but the boss does not wanna do it himself because it will ruin his reputation. The Assassin, got called upon by the boss and was hired to kill someone secretly, and basically do the boss's dirty work for him. The Victim, has done something bad and now has too pay the consequences and she finds out that the boss has hired an Assassin to kill her so she runs away but gets stuck into a closed room and then gets exterminated. (KEVIN)

• Ideology:

The Boss is a typical boss who gives out orders but doesn't do any of the dirty work himself, he

is clean-cut and has high expectations of everyone else but himself. He calls someone else to

kill someone who isn't giving him what he wants. The challenge is the fact that the victim doesn't

want to give in the codes, this film is very cliche as in there is a Boss, A killer, and a victim.

There is no particular storyline that will be developed as we are only creating the beginning of a film.

              

• Mood and tone:

The mood and tone in our short thriller film will be dark and create meaning which will lean towards it being more suspenseful. The mod and tone will create an atmosphere of darkness, death, mystery and fear. Conventions leading to this atmosphere are things such as the red hues which represent death and fear and the use of eerie music, camera angles and the lighting. The tone in our film ‘Ashe’ is serious, suspenseful, anticipating, engaging and overall threatening which will be reflective of our mood of the short thriller film. We will have a slightly gloomy mood which gives off tensity and anxiety which engages the audience by keeping them on their toes. The mood and tone will help make the audience feel uncomfortable in a way and be worried. Atmosphere will be created by eerie silent music with sudden changes to louder or faster sounds during the chase scene. (PORCIA)

• Camera shots,movement, lighting etc:

The camera's perspective will be jumping between the different Characters and their different Jobs,

throughout the whole film there will be a hue of Red displayed through the lighting.

The opening shot will be a close-up shot of The Assasin preparing her equipment, this will establish

our film as we are basing our film on the Assasin. ( Mele )

• Themes and motifs: The themes and motifs that we have got an idea of doing are giving a

representation of thriller, and merely getting people on the edge of their seats, and also giving them the sense of suspense and anticipation on whats going to happen next. We almost want people to feel like they can picture our clip in their heads when they close their eyes because they cant stop thinking about it. The Theme of our clip is almost like conflict because The Boss and the Victim have conflict with each other so then the boss hires an Assassin to finish the conflict instead of the boss doing it because he has to much of a reputation to keep. (KEVIN)

• Narrative:

The narrative itself builds anticipation and suspense as the audience follows the actions of the characters along their journey of the plot and content. (PORCIA)

• Mise-en-scene/setting:

Our film’s setting will be City Impact Church’s shore location. This location provides the elements of an office space and a long hallway that are required for the film. An office is a very normal, everyday location and therefore having it being used as the bosses office makes him seem high in power and status. Mise-en-scene will be used in our short thriller film to show everything in the shot. This goes from the lighting and costumes to the props. Such props being used are access cards, a phone, blood, a mirror, a spinning chair and a gun as the killing piece of equipment. The lighting will be low lighting and hopefully quite dark which will be paired with red hues for the effect of fear terror and suspense. The costumes worn by the characters will be a suit worn by the boss to make him look crisp and high in power and status. The assassin will wear black and red clothes to connote with death, fear and terror. As for the coder, she will be wearing a normal uniform such as jeans and a tee shirt, they will have a very causal uniform as their uniform which suggests to the audience that they are lower in class and status. (PORCIA)

• Symbolism:

Red will be a key symbol in our film, it symbolises the fact that someone is going to die,

it also symbolizes the assassin and her Job. ( Mele )

• Sound and music:

The Sound we will have is the actors talking and the Diegetic sound of the Assassins ringtone as the boss is calling the Assassin for the kill. The Music that will be displayed will give the viewers a sense of suspense and hopefully put them on their seats. For the chase scene the Music will start to get faster and faster with a non-Diegetic sound of a heartbeat in the background. (KEVIN)

• Location:

Like said our location will be filmed at the north shore city impact church. This location provides all the essentials we need for our film such as an office, long hallway and plenty of different rooms with dark lighting and setting with not much natural light. This is perfect for us as we want our film to be set in low lighting to make it seem more suspenseful and anticipating. (PORCIA)

• Use of credits and and logos:

We have not talked about our logo yet. ( Mele )

• Editing:

We will be individually editing our short-films. ( Mele )