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.
This sounds more like TV drama, in my opinion, than a feature film.
ReplyDeleteYour research into how treatments are developed is good.
After a lot of further development, the treatment is much more confident now. You have situated the events firmly in more easily visualized and precise locations; the events now are linked and therefore the narrative flows. Once you have settled some crucial casting questions, you can develop the next (final?) scene. Currently, you are working on character interviews
ReplyDeleteWhere is the FILM ESCAPE article with your post on interviewing a character?
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