Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Film: Opening scene - treatment

The scene opens with several quick-cut shots of various people running through a wooded area.
The first shot is of a man glancing backwards as he stumbles through the woods, with the camera panning alongside him.
This is then followed by a black screen, with the director's name flickering across the screen in white, the font is sharp and menacing.

The next shot is of another man, Ben, running after the first, with the camera slightly closer, again panning alongside the man.
Following this, the screen goes black again, and the name of the script writer flickers across the screen in the same manner as with the first black screen.

The third shot is of two more people, a man in black clothing and a woman in lighter colours, both of whom are running after the Ben.
This shot is interspersed by another title screen, this time with the name of the production company flickering across the screen, throughout all the black-screen shots, the sound of static electricity can be heard.

The next shot is a rather short one of Ben tackling the first man to the ground.
This shot cuts to black, with the film's title fading in slowly, flickering slightly as it does.

The camera fades in again to the sound of heavy breathing.
The shot opens from the point of view of the first man, lying down with Ben sitting in front of him.
This then switches to a wide shot of Ben sitting in front of the unnamed man, with the other two standing behind him.
Both the man and the woman are absent from the shot.
The unnamed man asks Ben why he chased him, at which point the camera switches back to the man's point of view, when Ben states "He told me you would tell the others." and points into the air behind him, where the man in black would have been standing in the previous shot.

The shot switches from the point-of-view shot to a shot of Ben and the man in black, where the man tells Ben to kill the unnamed man, but the woman interjects, stating that the man hasn't done anything to them, and that it would be unfair.
Ben then says "I shouldn't.", but the man dressed in black tells Ben that the unnamed man will tell people that Ben is crazy, and that they'll take him away.
The camera then cuts back to a point-of-view shot from the first man's point of view, where he states "Who're you talking too?"
Ben then reaches out to strangle the man, with a voiceover stating "that's how it happened..."

The camera then switches to a dimly-lit room, with Ben sitting across the table from another man, who says "Alright, now i want you to tell me how it started, right back at the beginning."
The scene then cuts to black.

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