A treatment is a more detailed idea of what my groups 2 minute opening is going to be, it is done so that not only can the group and other people see in detail the idea but the group can also look back on this treatment after making the 2 minute film opening and say whether it stayed the same or whether ideas were changed throughout the filming process.
The film opening will be two different scenes, these two scenes will be skipped backwards and forwards between throughout the two minutes, the group decided this would be a good idea because this is cross cutting and we thought this would be effective in our film opening and make it look good. Also the two scenes are completely different in the way they are set, edited and the way the characters are so it will be a complete juxtaposition.
The first part of the opening will be a family of 4 pulling up in their car outside a new house that they will be moving into. The car will pull up on the drive and as it does the film will switch to a clip of a young girl in a dark attic like place cutting up various pictures of families, nothing is given away and the audience will not know who the families are. It will then go back to family getting out of the car, laughing and joking but you will not be able to hear the family only see as a song will be playing in the background, after this the little girl in the attic will appear again still with pictures but this time scratching the eyes out of people in the pictures, throughout the whole of this part of the scene you will not be able to see the little girls face properly only her hands which will be grubby and dirty. After a few seconds of this it will be skipped back to the family again getting their bags out of the boot of the car still laughing and joking and this will be dragged on for about 10-20 seconds until going back to the little girl who will now be cutting up a heart that the group will get from the butchers, she will be slowly dissecting it and pulling bits off as if it was a humans heart but the audience will not be aware who's heart it is or even infact if it is a heart or not, they will be completely unaware as to what it is. Back to the family and they will then be walking down the drive with their bags towards the house, and the shot will go back to the girl who at this point will now be cutting (with the same scissors that she was dissecting the heart with so that there is blood on them) a picture of a particular family, only as the camera zooms in it becomes clear that it is the family that are moving in that she is cutting up. At this point it will skip back down to the family who will all be walking through the front door and the camera shot will point down towards the bottom right hand corner of the door before slamming it shut, as the door is shutting the music playing will turn off and the door will bang shut revealing the name of the film in the corner, the shot then goes back to the little girl who will also hear the bang of the door, drop everything she is doing and quickly turn her head towards the attic door, the audience will be unaware as to what will happen next.
We thought this would be a good idea as it is left on a cliff hanger which would make the audience want to watch on.
The music playing throughout the film opening will be a creepy nursery rhyme type of song in which the group will devise on a computer.
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