PLANNING: TREATMENT

WORKING TITLE:  

The topline: four students A, B, C and D in need of some quick cash respond to an advert for being guineau pigs in medical research. They report to a lab and chat nervously. Soon they are prostrate on beds, in patient gowns, being injected / swallowing tablets under the watchful eye of two doctors. A cutaway shot suggests some hallucinatory experiences. the trailer cuts to student A in his /her ktichen the next morning suddenly receiving a text. The phone screen looks like a game with a challenge / task. The screen goes black. Student A feels compelled to follow the instructions. She is told to break a few laws on the way (such as steal money from her mother's handbag, snatch a scooter left on the pavement, throw a stone at a window). She is surprised at her own behaviour.

Her task is to surprise a stranger by breaking into their house. She finds that the stranger's house belongs to person B. They exchange greetings. A text arrives simultaneously on both their phones, instructing them with the next task. This one is harder. It involves persuading someone to take a high-level selfie. The screen goes black. They carry out the task. The person falls to their death and they realize that they are in the power of a mind control drug.

The big question: will the students resist the mind control drug before further challenges cause further traumas? 

PLANNING: TRELLO

I used Trello again to create a platform to help me be organised with my planning section of the blog. I have created cards that can easily be move to each section when completed or are being done. 

Click here to visit my Trello board.

REASEARCH: AUDIENCE

RESEARCH: TREATMENT

I watched FutureLearn on YouTube which showed me how Frank Ash would set up a treatment for a film. His main point are that you need to be interested in what you are creating and make sure that other people will be too.

"So, if you’re aiming for your film to reach a large audience online, making sure it has universal appeal will be key. We’ll be thinking about this in more practical terms later in the week, but let’s bring Frank Ash’s points together with the last step’s concerns:

• Think about your favourite book or film or any ‘good story’ you recently watched online, could you sum up its narrative into ‘one elegant sentence’ to provide its ‘topline’?
• What was its big story question, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text?"

RESEARCH: FILM MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS - TOTAL FILMS X BATMAN V SUPERMAN

RESEARCH: FILM MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS - EMPIRE X SUICIDE SQUAD

RESEARCH: FILM MAGAZINES