Production Treatment for main task

The Opening of a short film : The proposed title of our film is "Runaway". The genre for our piece would be a emotional drama focusing upon the story of a young adult in care of his adopted parents.

Duration : The proposed time for the piece would be around the 2 minute mark.

Audience : The audience we identified our film would most interest and who we would target would young educated students in the age range or 16-24. We chose this audience as we feel they could relate and understand the emotion of the film and appreciate the sometimes dark feel of the piece at times.

Resume : For the opening sequence which we will be shooting it will feature the boy effectively running away from his house and his adopted parents and escaping to the seaside. The opening sequence would start with the viewer being able to hear the protagonist being beaten and some sort of argument occurring. We would then see the protagonist leaving the house wearing his backpack and travelling down the street and catching the train/bus to the beach.

Suggested Elements :

Performance : The main performance in the piece will be of the main travelling to the seaside from the house.

Costumes : The costume of the protagonist would be normal young modern clothes, as it shows the protagonist is no different from any other sterotypical teenager so the audience will be able to relate to the character. The character will be wearing his back pack to show that he is always on the move, almost as if he is just waiting to go.

Props : Aswell as coming under costume we would also class the backback as one of the characters props. We would also class the train and/or the bus in which the character travels on as a prop.

Key Locations : For the first half part of the sequence in the urban area we are going to film in a area that is local to us all so we are going to film this in swinton as it is quite a urban area. As for the second half where the protagonist runs away we are hoping to film in a seaside location however we can easily change and adapt our idea to work in the countryside. Some of the locations we have already scouted as possible locations include "Lytham Beach", "Ainsdale Beach", "Southport" and "Dovestones" all but the latter are seaside resorts with the latter being set in the countryside. For more on locations see seperate post.

Title/ opening credits : We have decided to have two production companies in our credits one being "GTC" and the other being "GeoHar" both of these we made up ourselves. Also in our opening sequence we are going to credit the protaganist the cinematographer and the director. We see this as essential in creating the opening sequence of a film.

Filming Dates : One of the problems we faced was finding a day when the whole group was free for the day when we travel to the beach. We wanted when we travelled to the beach to ideally go on a weekday as this would be better for the film as it would be more quiet. However this was not possible to find a week day when the whole group was free, so we went on a weekend which we arranged in our group, but we chose to go on a day when it wouldn't be particularly good weather as to avoid other people who may be at the beach.