Wednesday, 23 November 2016

PLANNING: THE TOP LINE AND THE BIG QUESTION

I watched a video on Frank Ash who is the creative consultant for BBC Films, who has taught storytelling and creative techniques to people and film crews across the BBC and beyond. 

  
THE TOP LINE: The story is about police discrimination towards adolescents, who are placed into police custody. However one day the tables turn... The policeman hits a adolescent and he happens to be related to the two discriminated adolescents that are put in police custody. The next day the two adolescent people confront the policeman, they are now in control. 

THE BIG QUESTION: What will happen to the policeman? Will justice prevail?

TREATMENT: The scene is set in the street. Outside two boys are in a huddle. We see a police officer approach the teenagers who are in a suspicious formation. The police officer has visions that the boys are spray painting the wall, we see that the boys have a spray can in their hands. The boys exchange looks as the police officer comes up behind them. The police man asks them why they are spray painting, the boys deny this and run off. A middle aged policeman who has been watching the boys, shout: 'hey you!'

Cut to interview at police station.

Cut to teenagers being released from station and greeted by a friend who is waiting for them wearing a distinctive hat.

Cut to scene in which the police officer takes a call from his superior.

Cut to scene where police officer is driving home from work and pulls out into the path of a teenage cyclist, the cyclist turns out to be the boy that the other teenagers met up with earlier with the distinctive hat.