Treatment

Treatment

Our treatment is a descriptive version of our shot list which tells us everything we need to know about our storyline. The purpose of the treatment is to ensure we have full knowledge and understanding of our plot for the opening sequence. It states each shot in description of what is happening and tells us what sound is occurring in the opening sequence, whether this be diegetic, or non diegetic.

compare what titles are used in our genre.

For a homework task, we were asked to produce a timeline, for a film of our genre and add in the titles that come up in the opening sequence, and also include the time in which they appear. I decided to do mine on the film adulthood, which also associated with drugs and all of the situations occurring in our film.

The timeline above indicated the specific timings in which each title appears on the screen in a chosen film of our genre. I noticed that the titles were very quick in speed to appear and did not stay on the screen for a long period of time. The first titles that appeared on the screen were the names of the production and distribution company. There were no cast names that appeared in the opening sequence, and the very first title that appeared was the release supported by the UK film council. This very rarely happens in big Hollywood films, but as Adulthood is a low budget British film we need to be aware this is how they like to open their film. The last two titles had a long gap between them with the very last title indicating and setting the storyline off. It states 8 years later...

In class we needed to compare our time lines, and they were a huge contract from one another. My timeline consisted of quick titles being included with only a couple of seconds after each other. Zoe on the other hand had titles coming in with about a minutes difference which made it hard to decide when and where we would include our titles. Below is an example of one of adulthood's titles.

As we can see, the titles for Adulthood are not superimposed (titles over the action in the film), they are fading in sharply over a clack background.

In my timeline shown above, gives you the time in which the titles appeared on screen for.

The above treatment was our first treatment, some changes needed to take place, through the help of our teacher. we were told that we had too many characters included in our opening sequence, and to try, if possible to cut it down, and take out some of the cast, and shots. We decided to take out the tracking shot of the crowd, which would narrow down our characters, and now we only have significant main characters, which are more important rather then too many people.

As the crowd tracking shot was the ending of our opening sequence, we then needed to come to a decision of how we would end it, we decided rather then complicating our self creating a whole different scene for the ending, we would just use the last shot of gaz running down the canal, and he would be removing his ear phones from his ear.

The other changes on our treatment is the titles we need to include. We will be including main titles at the beginning, such as our production and distribution names. As a group we have decided what and where we will include the titles, hopefully meaning our treatment will be completed.

Our first attempt at the treatment was not correct, due to the error's in our shot list. We had feedback from our teacher telling us to re do bits, for example putting scenes together, and the fact that this piece of work did not match the shot list. It took a long time for us to get it right but in the end it worked out and now we have a well structured shot list and treatment.