Three Column Script term 3 production

This must include all shots in the production. Shots must be listed in the order they will be shot (not the order they will appear in the film).
Length of Shot: Duration	Shot Description and Visual information: Shot type, camera movement, position, angle.  Location	Additional Shot Notes:  lighting notes, action etc. Voice-Over, Dialogue, Sound FX etc. Additional notes as shots are gathered.
7s	Birds eye view of an office, with a desk in the corner.	dark lighting the only light switched on is the one on the desk.
20s	Leaving the house quickly (pick up keys on coffee table) slamming the door behind him.	Sound effect will be added along with the sounds that are in the scene.
10s	The camera moves down to reveal a hand picking up a hard drive. (black hard drive)	Lamp light on desk will be switched on with sound affect in the background.
30s	A black van appears an anonymous man gets out of the car and meets up with Charles. (they shake hands)	This will be outdoor filmed and the sounds will be used from the scene.
6s	Charles sitting at his office desk, with his hand close to his ear twirling his fingers.	only lamp light will be on, sound affects in the background will be played.
10s	Anonymous man returns back to his van and drives away. (black van) out in a street behind a factory.	Dark lighting with sound affects in the background.
20s	Charles standing at his desk picking up the phone and bringing it closely to his ear. (camera shot from the side) at his office.	Sound affects in the background. Lamp light turned on.
30s	A truck is parked in an alley street and Charles and three other men are unloading the boxes from the truck. (black boxes) filmed from a window up in one of the buildings in the alley.	The sounds used will be the ones from the scene. During day time.
25s	Boxes being loaded in the back store room of the shop. (corner shop; Charles bakery)	Sound affects will be playing in the background.
10s	Charles and a man are sitting at a table in a dark room with only the light on the table turned uniform above them. Man passes envelope to Charles. Two other men will be standing behind the man handing over the envelope. (camera from birds eye view)	Sound affects will be playing in the background. With scene sounds.
7s	Max and Angus entering the shop, open door and walk in.	No sound affects will be added in this shot there will be just the scene sounds.
20s	A man will be leaning against a tree during day time located in a park. The man is meeting up with Max and Angus. He hands them over a gun.	Sound affects will be playing in the background.
20s	The gun is placed in the bed side draw in the bedroom. at Max’s house.	Sound affects will be playing in the background.
12s	Charles counting money in his shop at the bench. Near cash register.	Slow soundtrack will be playing the background.
12s	Charles walking in a an empty factory, leaving the black parcels on the table near the exit door.	Sound affect will be in the shot.
9s	Black van appears, it drives away as soon Charles is leaving the factory.	Scene sounds are played.
10s	A car drives into the scene and parks outside the shop located on the corner.	Soundtrack affects will be playing in this scene.
10s	Charles gets shot instantly by his brother, his sitting on his chair. lights turned off with only lamp light turned on.	Scene sounds affects are played in this scene.
8s	Charles walks into his office opening the door furiously, the hard drive is missing when he looks over at his desk.	Sound affects will be playing in the background.
10s	2 shadows appear in Charles office when his in there. The lights are turned off.	Sound affects will be playing in the background.

Treatment term 3

Nadia Romano 

Yr 12 

5/08/2016

TREATMENT

TITLE: The brothers game 

TOPIC INTRODUCTION:

Three brothers and their family are involved in shady dealings. Charles is an importer of illegal drugs, but his brothers Max and Angus, realise he has been leaving them out and they want their share. When they confront him it’s bad news for Charles as his brothers kill him.    

SYNOPSIS:

Blackness. A birds eye view of an office appears, in the corner is a desk with a light that is turned on. The camera moves down to reveal a hand picking up a black hard drive from the desk. Charles sits at his office desk, his hand moves to his ear and he twirls his fingers. Staring at the hard drive, his thoughts drift to the past and we see 5 shots of Charles past are rapidly shown, a black van appears an anonymous man steps out of the van. Charles shakes the mans hand, the man returns back to the van. Charles standing at his desk picking up the phone and bringing it up to his ear. Black Boxes are unloaded from a truck that is parked in the alley, three big men and Charles are taking them into a store room. Black parcel packages are being hidden in the store room, Charles placing the packages on the shelves. Charles and anonymous man are sitting at the table, the camera from a birds eye view with only the light turned on above them. Max and Angus enter the bakery shop, that is located on the corner at the end of the street. A man is leaning against a tree in the park, Max and Angus approach the man making a deal with him. Max and Angus receive a package which contains a loaded gun inside from the man. The gun is placed in the bedside draw at Max’s house. Charles counting money at the counter bench, immediately he hides the money when the brothers enter the scene. Charles entering an empty factory leaving the black parcels on the table near the exit door. The black van appears and is parked outside the factory but leaves immediately when Charles walks out of the factory. Charles entering a bedroom searching for his lost brief case which is located in the wardrobe but he notices that the bed side draw is open. Charles leaves the house slamming that door behind him. A car drives into the scene, it is parked outside the corner shop. Charles walks towards his office opening the door furiously and notices the hard drive is missing. Standing in his office Charles hear’s a foot step noise, the light turns off, the lamp light goes on. Max’s shadow appears up from behind Charles, Angus’s shadow enters pointing the gun towards Charles head. Charles sits at his chair and in a blink he was shot instantly by his brother.                 

RESOURCES: 

People:

• Narration which will be done a bit throughout the film as in some scenes only soundtrack music has being added. 
• Main character-Charles, who owns a bakery and makes a lot of 
• money, but has two brothers Max and Angus whom are jealous of him. He imports illegal drugs into the country. 
• Max and Angus, who frame Charles and kill him because he makes all the money and they are jealous of him.
• The dealers, they make the deals with Charles and the two brothers. 

PROPS:

• Gun 
• Hard drive 
• Office room 
• House 
• Desk 
• Cars 
• Mobile phones 
• Money 

JUSTIFICATION:

The brothers game is a movie based on a true story, it tells a story about a man named Charles who is involved in illegal business but keeps it a secret from his brothers Max and Angus who confront him later on and kill him. The movie is a very dramatic film which is what Francis Ford Coppola makes his films out to be ‘Dramatic’. The characters in the movie are very ‘gangsta’ as I've decided to create a movie based off one of Francis Ford Coppola’s films ‘The God Father’. The shots that are used are very similar to Coppola’s ones as they tell a dark story has deep emotions just like Coppola in his work. In his films Coppola tenses to use warm lighting which is what I will use in my film. So it gives the audience a more real connection with the film. 

Film Story Idea 2 term 3

Idea 2:

Title: The family

Synopsis:

• Family gets separated by the bad guys 
• The wife is taken away 
• Husband makes a deal with the enemy to free his wife
• He needs to work for the bad and can never return to his family 
• The wife is released and returned to the children 
• The wife then makes a deal with the good guy 
• She offers money to have her husband back 
• The deal happens and the good guy agrees to help her 
• The husband is released but he is up to something 
• He secretly continues working with the bad without his wife knowing 
• The wife finds out about him still working with the bad so she leaves him  
• The husband then gets murdered because he has not completed one of his jobs that was asked by the bad people 
• The wife inherits all his money and lives on with her life. 

Genre: Crime, action, drama 

Characters: 

• Wife 
• Husband 
• Bad guy 
• Good guy 

Film Story Idea 1 term 3

Idea 1:

Title: The brothers game

Synopsis:

• Chinese Gangsta owns a bakery shop 
• Secretly ships illegal drugs into the country 
• Has two brothers 
• His the only one who worked hard for his money 
• He gets killed by his bothers 
• His brothers are jealous that the brother makes all the money 
• The brothers end up taking over the business 
• The brothers inherit all the money from the bother 
• The Chinese man leaves his family behind (his wife and 2 children)
• His assistant never liked him so she is working with the two brothers to get him out.   

Genre: Crime, drama and action

Characters: 

• Chinese man-Charles a man who imports illegal drugs into the country
• Wife-Mary 
• Brother 1- Max who is the one that kills Charles  
• Brother 2- Sebastian who makes a deal with someone trading cash for a gun
• Child 1 
• Child 2 
• Assistant- Rachel who works with the two brothers to get Charles out of business

Lighting: Drak. red, yellow, night time

• (Main character) in the beginning of the film he could be picking up something e.g symbol, card, vase etc... a clue of when he first did something illegal. 
• Flash back of him arguing with his brothers (from his point of view)
• Charles suspects his about to die
• Camera is zoomed up on a hand picking up a hard drive
• Charles sitting at his desk with only the lamp light on (background is dark) with his hand close to his ear moving his fingers around staring at the hard drive thats on his desk. 
• Charles shaking a hand (in the background there is a van and outside in the middle of no where at night. 

Alfred Hitchcock term 2

Alfred Hitchcock 

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, was and English film director and producer, at times referred to as “The Master of Suspense”. He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. His stylistic trademarks include the use of camera movement that mimics a person’s gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. In addition, he framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative forms of film editing. His work often features fugitives on the run alongside “icy blonde” female characters. Many of Hitchcock’s films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of murder and other violence. Many of the mysteries, however, are used as decoys or “MacGuffins” that serve the films’ themes and the psychological examinations of their characters. Hitchcock’s films also borrow many these from psychoanalysis and sometimes feature strong sexual overtones. Hitchcock said that he was sent by his father to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for five minutes as punishment for behaving badly. This incident implanted a lifetime fear of policemen in Hitchcock, and such harsh treatment and wrongful accusations are frequent themes in his films.    

• He dealt with psychological issues
• He took a stage play and turned it into a 3D film
• Hitchcock was happily married, never had any affairs, he was such a big directer that people wanted to work with him. 

 Films of Hitchcock:

• Psycho
• Vertigo
• North by North West  
• Rope 

What are some influences that Hitchcock’s work has had on popular culture?

He started the slasher movie trend, he inspired new comedy and tv series, films, e.g Simpsons, Pretty Little Liars. Hitchcock has had a lot on impact on a lot of things   

Research another director

• Tim Burton 

What are Alfred Hitchcock’s signature elements?

Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of Pure Cinema. Pure Cinema is the telling of a story via film by using string visuals, as opposed to lengthy dialogue, to process/further the narrative. That is the way Hitchcock directed his films, emphasising the visual, something that makes perfect sense given he started his career as a director in silent films where visuals were the most important element in the telling of a story. Aside from the visuals, Alfred Hitchcock’s films also have a strong thematic connection as they all feature varying degrees of intrigue, suspense, murder, romance, sexuality and dark humour, or entering around a wrongly accused man, many  deal with patriotism, or international espionage, and most tell stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. When I watched a small scene from one of Hitchcock’s movie, I found that most compelling isn’t the story he tells, but the way he shows it. Several of his films, for instance, feature extensive chases where the protagonist has to go to great lengths to avoid capture. The important element in these cases is the running, the encounters, the avoidance – it is never the why. The why is rarely fully explained in any of his films and Hitchcock himself thought the why didn’t matter to audiences. He called this why the McGuffin and explained it as a nonsensical device used to motivate the action and suspense. Simply, this small somewhat confusing, inconsequential thing in many of Hitchcock’s films is one of the reasons he was such a genius in storytelling because he made his films so visually compelling that nobody cared why the suspicious situation arose in the first place. What mattered was the action that ensued as a result of the McGuffin, but the McGuffin could be anything at all.

Auteur Theory term 2

What is Auteur theory?

The auteur theory, which was derived largely from Astruc's elucidation of the concept of caméra-stylo (“camera-pen”), holds that the director, who oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture, is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay.

Auteur Directors 

Alfred Hitchcock 

Stanley Kubrick 

Martin Scorsese 

Ingmar Bergman 

Akira Kurosawa 

Alain Resnais 

Woody Allen 

Amélie term 1

Amélie 

Film analysis:

Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany. Taking in over $33million in a limited theatrical release, it is still the highest-grossing French language film released in the United Sates. The film received critical acclaim and was a major box office success. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it also won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

Personal Reflection on the Film:

The difference between a Hollywood film and a Foreign film lies in the different lifestyle and attitude of people. Foreign films tend to make a more creative note on things. You will get to see a different perspective of things from foreign movies. Hollywood movies tend to be more laid back and fantasy driven. Foreign films usually address the world in transition as we are living it.