Treatment

Opening Scene:

Car sounds. People walking past. George sitting by the road, homeless, asking for money. He is grubby but not completely untidy. Charlie walks past, notices him and goes back to talk to him. We can't hear any dialogue, just the diegetic sound of cars and people walking past. We cut to George masked with a bag, in a dark storage container. The bag is taken off and George is woken up with a slap on the face. The shot is ambiguous and we can't see where he is or who has held him hostage. He starts with a narration. The scene cuts back to George and Charlie walking into a cafe. It's a greasy spoon type cafe. They sit down at a table positioned next to a window. We can see them talking but again can only hear the narration. A sound separates the narration from the dialogue, and the dialogue starts. They talk about Charlie helping George to get a job. Charlie makes the job sound spectacular and George, not being reluctant to getting money, politely obliges. The scene cuts back to George masked in the container and the narration resumes. Throughout the opening the scene often cuts to various establishing shots, for example a shot of the front of the cafe, or a still shot of a cobble street. After this shot of George we then cut to a dialogue between George, Charlie and Shaun. Shaun is a hard-noised gangster and is very aggressive and inquisitive towards George, however he agrees and George is given a trial. We cut back to George being held hostage and the narration finishes, with that the opening ends.

What we have decided: This part of our planning shows our

influences for shot types, narration and the theme of our 

opening. Includes a rough idea of the discussions we have had

 as to what traits they should acquire.

Character's Traits: Again this part of our planning is a rough

first idea of our characters influences, Also who we can possibly

cast in the roles.

Final ideas: This sheet explains our final ideas for the opening of

our thriller, with specific locations and scene by scene

walk through of what we have in idea.

Influences:

The shot influences of our thriller come from a various amount of films, the cafe scene in 'Coffee and Cigarettes' is one we took a shine to. We will use this style of shooting a conversation from various different angles, and having an object which is significant to the characters. The sound editing of layer cake, and legend is how we will attempt to record a narration, and within the narration essentially quote a character - but this quote will be actually said by the character as if part of the narration. The favourite of these influences is Lock Stock, which uses a variety of cuts and shots to take us through the story-line in a very specific way. Taking us back and forth through the narrative in quite a fashionable manor. Seeing scenes we have no clue about and understanding them later on in the movie. The shot's used always attempt to intimidate the viewer, and the close ups never seem to fail in doing that. From a drama point of view, we'll attempt to set the location and act accordingly to the British gangster genre.