Thursday 10 December 2015

Planning: Writing a Treatment

Treatment for the opening 2 minutes (including titles) of 'The girl in white' by Cloudy Village Productions 


The opening of the film starts with a black out that slowly changes into a high crane establishing shot above the camping site in the woods.

'A Film Produced By Cloudy Village Productions' appears onto the screen and goes away when the camera starts to zoom into the camp.



The establishing shot zooms down into the camp and lands onto the floor and turns into a black out.

The camera then turns into one of the groups self recording camera with a timeframe in the corner of the screen.



'Edited By Mea, Hannah, Rachel and Taylor' appears onto the screen for a couple of seconds while the camera is going in and out of focus.



Tim picks up the camera and looks at it then a conversation takes place between Tim and Chad talking about how he dropped the camera.



While Tim looks at the camera and talking to Chad 'Music by Hannah, Rachel, Taylor and Mea' appears on the screen.



Tim then wipes the camera to get the dirt off and the title wipes away with this wiping movement.

Tim is at the end of the line of the group, he moves the camera in his hands and points it at everybody in the group as some people in the group tell him to stop filming and hide there face in a joking manner.



Tim then faces the camera onto the floor showing his shoes while he is walking.

The tittle 'Staring' appears in the middle of the screen.



Tim is still filming him walking towards the camping spot and George Hales as Chad, Des'ree T as Allison, Alex Rowden as Billy, Ophelia Wilson as Jodie and Ashley Paddick as Tim all appear in the corner of the screen 3 seconds after each other.

Tim is still walking but now he lives up the camera to show that they are at the camping site and he explains everything he can see to the camera.



In the back ground you can hear Allison saying 'come on then, lets set up' but in mid sentence Tim points the camera towards her and zoom into her face. Everyone agrees and you can her them all start random conversions with one another.



The camera gets turned off.



The next scene is Tim turning the camera back on and placing it on the floor so you can see a low angle in and out of focus shot of him trying to start the fire with the rest of the group setting up the tents in the background.



While he is starting the fire up the title 'Alice Piggot starts as' is in the corner of the screen, then as soon as the fire gets lit the title 'The girl in white' appears in the middle of the screen the disappears when he picks up the camera.



As Time holds the camera at the fire you can hear Allison say 'guys where is Chad?', no one knows where he is and from this Tim and Jodie has a conversation with the rest of the group and they decide to go and look for him, at this point you can still see the fire.



The screen then goes to Tim pointing the camera towards the woods and occasionally at Jodie while they are talking.



Tim has the camera in a low angle shot pointing at the sky to show that it is starting to get darker, from this a conversation happens between Tim and Jodie about whether they should go back or not. The camera is back to a long shot of the woods and while they are talking they could hear sharp snapping sounds of twigs and leaves moving.



They both start to panic and run back towards the camp, at this point all you can see is their shoes and blurry images of trees as they are both running pretty fast from fright. 



We then get to see a point of view shot through Tim's eyes as he falls over and the camera falls and rolls in front of him.



The audience is still seeing in Tim's eyes, He is slowly blinking and moving around while hearing a loud high pitch sound from hurting his ears and a quite voice coming from Jodie.



A girl in white then appears in front of Tim slowly walking towards him and then hitting him unconscious.



The screen goes blank.



Then there is a panning shot of all the groups faces while they are unconscious and tied to a tree.

The camera is still being recorded from a self videoing camera but this time its not being held and filmed by Tim it is being video by the girl in white.



You can see the girl videoing her feet walking from the group towards her dangerous tools and then showing the tools layed out along the woodland floor.



In the back ground you can start to hear the group waking up and screaming and shouting at the girl.

The girl turns around while still videoing and pointing the camera at the group showing them all tied up the trees and struggling to escape and says in Latin ' Today i shall feast'. When the girl says this subtitles will appear at the bottom of the screen in yellow.



The screen will then go blank and the words '20 years later' will slowly start to show bold in the middle of the blank screen.



The screen is still blank then a diegetic sound of news reports will quietly appear.

After 2 seconds a mid-shot of a TV will be shown and on the TV will be a news report of the once young cannibalistic girl.



The end of the opening will be a news reporter saying 'and till this day the girl in white still hasn't been found.'

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