Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Film Treatment

Film treatment.



Title: All Have Lied.


Duration: 4-5 minutes.


Genre: Romantic drama.


Characters:
Beth (Caroline McCann)
She is a lonely, confused, despondent woman who is trying to deal with depression after she ends up without her love of her life. She tries to forget what happened, but no matter what she does or what she thinks about it always seems to point back at her lover, ‘Matthew’

Matthew (Gerard McConkey)
He is deeply in love with Beth but things go desperately wrong and he becomes absent from Beth’s life. He only appears in a flash back, flash forward and at the end.

Katrina (Kirsty McComish)
She is a counsellor who is trying to work with Beth. She thinks she is helping but what she says to Beth is taken the wrong way and leads to Beth wanting Matthew back even more.


Locations: The Old Mill (Ballydugan)
The Lakeside (Downpatrick)
Shimna College (Counselling room)
Kirsty's House.
Donard Forest
Gerard’s House (living room/Kitchen)
Open Field (Keenan)
The beach
Murlough sand dunes.
Tipperary Lane.
Alley way (Joyland)
Shimna River Bridge.
Church (Ballykilbeg)
Small Garden.



Plot:



Beth is sitting in a room all on her own, accompanied by a ticking clock. She sits for a moment and then says ‘You all have lied’
Later that day we are in different room, which is a friend’s room (Katrina’s house). In here, we see Beth talking to Katrina. Katrina is trying to comfort Beth as she is upset and depressed.
We then see the miserable weather through a window which is outside. The camera then seems to go out of the window. Outside it is raining and we see two people as a couple walking away in the distance.
The camera then goes back in through a window but a different one that it went from. We then see Beth crying, bringing a tear to her eye, who is sitting in the kitchen on the floor next to the cupboard. (Her house)
We see Beth lying on the couch watching a nature programme. She then finally gets the courage to go outside on her own and she walks down an old country lane, and then off screen. We then see Matthew, Beth’s lover walking beside her, but it is faded to represent him being absent.
We then see Beth in the living room on her own then she is sitting with Matthew her lover. We see an argument and a big row. Beth then goes to the bedroom and at the bottom of the wardrobe she gets out a little box which has a padlock on it. She opens the box and it contains photographs and small objects belonging to Matthew.
She scans through some of the pictures and we see some really happy times, but we then see some of the sad and scary looking things.
We then are taken to the happy moments and then to the bad scary ones. We see a dark forest, a large lake, small alley way, an old run down building, a river, and a large bridge.
We then see Beth entering a very quiet church and sitting down reflecting on all of the things that have occurred.
She then walks out of the quiet church and enters the lonely, empty room in which she was in at the beginning.
In this room we only see Beth but as she is saying ‘There is no memory of him here, and so stand stricken, so remembering him’ we see what looks to be Matthews feet walking across the room that Beth is in.




Monday, 16 February 2009

Screen Writing Software

I have recently found a free script writing software which might come in useful for our screenplays.
It gives you hints and tips on how to write it and you can also write the whole screen play on it.
Follow this link below to get to it.
http://www.scripped.com

Monday, 9 February 2009

Inspiration for my film.

For my film i have chosen a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay called 'Sonnet 02'
It has gave me many ideas around my film so my plot is about this poem.
This is it here, if you have any ideas, imagery, or a storyline that you think would work with this poem leave me a comment.



Time does not bring relief; you all have lied,
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snow melts from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane,
But last year’s bitter loving must remain,
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,--so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place,
Where never fell his foot or shone his face,
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!