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Grammar You write in third person present tense and provide an overview of the characters, locations and details of the film. You can write your treatment creatively. The purpose of a treatment is to allow your audience to smell, taste and experience your film environment. Reading a treatment (second only to reading a full script) is the closest written equivalent to the look of your film.

SEE STUDENT AUDIO PAGE Listen to students describe their treatments in the year 11 film, 12 film 13FPP resources folders

RAG BOY The overall plot of the story is about a Ragdoll human boy who is silent, shy yet highly skilled and imaginative; and in this story we see how he tries to make his way through an average high school with people not very different to those you see today. We see how he tries to not only work with these people but try to connect to them. Eventually he finds that people find it difficult to understand and respect him except when he plays on his Cello, only then do people seem to see a positive side of RagBoy, something he can do that they can see and hear. The film is of the drama genre and the character performance is a very significant part to the story telling of the film. Because of this my approach to the cinematography as a director will be more of a supporting factor to many of the scenes and will not be shot to standout against the actors performances. But the shots and the colour grading is still significant to the story and will be approached with precision. Most shots are completely still and some intimately close to the actors on-screen, allowing us to focus in the small details of actions that the characters make in the story. I wish to bring out any vibrant colours to the screen, as there is an artistic colour coding to the characters and set (especially RagBoy’s costume). While I commonly try to avoid hand held shots (due to its regular use in modern cinema). But my plan is to use it quite respectively for the character Jake which will help to support his physical use to control things. But as for the other parts of the film, most shots will be still shots (location shots are excluded). SAMPLE __ Treatment __ The movie opens with a mid shot of Kate sat down. Her phone rings and it is her friend, reminding her of the upcoming party that evening. She puts the phone down, stands up and walks to the door. She walks to the door. She goes up the stairs. She walks across the landing and goes into her bedroom. She switches on the lightswitch. As she is putting on her jacket the phone rings downstairs. She runs down the stairs to answer it. She then answers the phone. She hears the heavy breathing. She then hangs up and continues to get ready for the party. She looks in the mirror and fixing her hair, before the phone rings again. Worried, she picks up again. This time there is even more heavy breathing and she becomes very concerned. She hangs up and just as she is crossing the room the phone rings yet again. She freezes for a few seconds before answering. It is her friend telling her to hurry up and there is a close up as her face turns to relief. She then leaves the house and there are tracking shots, behind shoulder shots and midshots as she walks to her car. when she opened the boot she screams and there is a shot of the bag falling to the floor. This is then the end of the opening sequence. The middle of the film: a mysterious man gets into kates car and reverses it out of her driveway with Kate in the boot. Here is an old abandoned warehouse. A mysterious man gets out of the car and opens the boot. He pulls Kate out. A very large scary man in a mask gets out after her. The man in the boot has put a gag on Kate whilst they were driving. They both take kate into the warehouse. In the room in the warehouse there are three people. They all interrogate her. As they decide on her fate she manages to escape. This is the end of the middle of the story. The end of the story: After Kate has managed to escape she goes to her friend who she thinks she can trust but she eventually finds out that her friend was the one behind the kidnap and did it because he needed the publicity because he worked for the police and wanted a promotion so thought he would get it if he solved the case of the kidnapping.
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Ideas about writing

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The Non-linear Here's a tip if you find yourself in such a state of mind: Stop piecing it together from beginning to end. Give up the linear mentality and allow yourself to think non-linearly. If you're stuck on a scene, leave it and move onto another one. Rewrites are for nailing things together in their proper structure. Writing is for putting together the buildingmaterials you need to tell the story.

Writing the antagonist.

One strategy a writer uses to create a likable bad guys is the same philosophy a debate team uses in academia. Pick a topic, take the position you don't believe in and defend it in a paragraph or two as if I you are the antagonist. It is a go-to when I'm having trouble writing without judgment.

In order to write bad guys, you don't have to be a bad guy, but you do have to understand what makes them tick and what they believe in. Putting yourself in the position to adopt opposite beliefs for a paragraph or two just might be the trick to get you in the right frame of mind to create the perfect antagonist.