Progress update - writing our treatmeant

Today we have gathered together as a group and began to write our treatment for the production. We have researched how to write an effective and professional treatment online so we could follow this as a guideline for ours so that we make sure we go into a clear and sufficient detail in our treatment.

Travelling Into The Unknown

Thomas Morgan – Director

Steven Everest – Sound

Robert Harden – Scripting

Bradley Arnott – Camera man

Tak Lung – Editing

Log line

"Travelling Into The Unknown" is a fast flowing thriller where one day you receive a mystery box, there’s nothing within, no instructions but… a note. This begins a journey into the unknown as the box has a unique ability to travel anywhere that you want. However the box is always being perused by those who know its power.   

Scene 1

A quick foot chase is on the cards, 2 men chasing another who is the current owner of the mystery box who want to take this possession off him. [A low shot of the feet running after another, the shot then cuts to a long shot to show the people that are within the scene]. They start to run up the stairs of the multi-storey building of flats [low shot of them running up the stairs]. From a Birdseye view you can see the distance between the pursuers and the owner, who then runs through an open door, [with the camera behind him, with a slight tilt as he pursues into the door] while the men who are chasing him take a misleading turn to the right, therefore losing the box owner. The pursuers slowly give up as they do not know what direction they are in. The owner is hiding for his safety within the room the he entered, panting and struggling to breathe [medium shot with character back up against the door]. Looking through the peep whole within the door he can see the pursuers walking away [panning shot through the peep whole]. The owner then takes out his phone, and texts an unknown number to inform him the he is going to leave the box, due to the danger it brings to himself [over the shoulder shot of him texting].  He then leaves the box outside a dorm door, while taking out a note from his jacket and places it inside the box. Quickly, he knocks on the door and hurries away so no one seems him [long shot to show the whole corridor].

Jake Holiday – Opens his bedroom door slowly from the unexpected knocking to see a random box placed outside of his room [Camera tilts from the box to a full body shot]. He gradually walks back into his room with the confusion of why this box has been placed outside of his door. He sits on his onto his bed, placing the box on floor, still confused and then opens it to discover there is nothing but a piece of paper within [camera shot from the box’s perspective]. He starts to read the note which turns out to be a riddle (related to time) that he can't really get his head around, [overlay of speech while reading note] but this gives him an insight to what the box holds. Jake then places the box on the floor, getting on with his everyday tasks that he does in and own. A short while later he is walking to the bathroom but suddenly trips on a loose wire, he then falls head first into the box, and will soon find out what power it holds [several medium shots].