Monday, 3 December 2012

Planning: A treatment for the opening 2 minutes of iWatch


  • The film starts with an establishing shot of an empty field.  
  • DENCH Productions appears on the screen. 
  • This then fades out into a black screen and the diegetic sound of the wind begins to play. 
  • The black screen then fades to an empty field where the music gradually gets louder. 
  • The next clip is three blurry figures walking up towards the part of the field where Josh's ashes were scattered. 
  • It then cuts to a close up of a blurry picture frame being held in someone's hand. 
  • After that, it then focusses on the picture frame and then the audience get to see Josh's picture for the first time, identifying the victim. 
  • This then focusses out again and blurs. 
  • It then cuts to them walking and someone putting the picture frame down. 
  • The next clip is an extreme close up of one of the figures lighting a match, this can be seen as a false scare. 
  • As soon as the match is lit, the music comes to a sudden stop.
  • The only sound for the majority of the opening will be diegetic sounds of the wind.
  • They then light a candle and place it next to the picture frame. 
  • The next clips are extreme close ups of each of the figure's face. 
  • This helps us to show the emotion, therefore the relationship's between the figure's and the victim (for example; someone's teary eyes, someone's sniffly nose and someone else's  quivering mouth.)
  • Now it is silent, they hear Josh's voice and look at each other, then look around and discover an iPhone on the floor about 3 metres away from where they are standing. 
  • There is a close up shot of the iPhone, not seeing what is on the screen. 
  • It then cuts to a point of view shot over the shoulder's of one of the figure's.
  • As a group, they all go to the phone and one person picks it up. 
  • There is a close up of that person's hand slowly picking up the phone.
  • A close up of the phone playing a video of Josh at a party and his face is shown in the video to identify to the audience that it's the same person.
  • It then cuts to an long shot of the friends crowding around the phone, but from behind them there is a rustle of the bushes and they suddenly turn around. 
  • The music then gradually begins again as they all walk back to the picture frame. 
  • A point of view shot is used focussing on the picture frame and a blown out candle. 
  • The next cut is a close up of the picture frame that has been replaced by a picture of a group of four people including Josh, however his face has been crossed out. 
  • As an audience they are now aware of the figure's identities as there is a panning shot of each of there faces in focus for the first time and they realise that they are the same people in the picture. 
  • Meanwhile, a heart beat is introduced when they return to the picture frame and increases as it gets closer to the opening title.
  • It then suddenly cuts to black and iWatch gradually appears on the screen with a picture of the Apple sign covered in blood is shown underneath it, something like this: 
or something like this: 

And we would have iWatch written underneath it. We could recreate it by getting a stencil of the Apple logo and then splattering fake blood or red paint around it on a piece of paper and then write iWatch underneath it in fake blood. 

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