FILM OPENING

Film Opening   treatment                                                     

- Genre : Crime

- Audience : people over 12

- The Title : Something Like This...

- The target audience : 12+

- What is film about :  Film is about teenagers from USSR with criminal past came to get an education in England. Ironically they all met in their school...

                                                                Plot

1st Scene - Something what will tell the audience that teenagers had a criminal past (i.e. newspaper/photos/shots from news/voiceover…)

(Establishing Shot)

2nd Scene - wake up call; report from the guardian about a new girl(Nelly).Dmitry and Ilya are going to meet that girl.

Medium Close-Up ( while waking up)

Medium Shot ( while Ilya is talking on the phone)

3rd Scene - boys are getting dressed and going to dinning hall to have a meal.

Montage

4th Scene - 2 boys are sitting at the dinning hall eating. Then they suddenly see a girl, who stole a phone from student’s pocket and he even didn’t mentioned it. Both of them realise, that she used to be a thief.

Wide Shot ( shows dinning hall)

Medium Shot ( shows boys)

Long Shot ( shows new girl Nelly)

Extreme close-up ( on the phone she is stealing)

Montage of all of this.

5th Scene - Boys are following her. At the corner they are reaching her, putting hand on her shoulder. She turns around and Ilya is saying : “ we can work together.

Long shot & montage

6th Scene -  Teenagers are sitting in a room with bad light around the table. On table you can see immitation of gamblering : poker, counter, money and whiskey ( apple juice in the glass)

They are discussing plans about how to steal things from students.

High angle shot in order to show the room and table.

Over-shoulder shot while teenagers are talking.

Final Scene - Students are opening their lockers and realise that a lot of stuff is missing. Later on there is a discussion in common room between students, including Ilya, Dima and Nelly. Three of them are tacking active part in it and look veeery innocent.

Characters : 2 boys - Ilya and Dima

                     1 girl -     Nelly

When :                   Early Autumn

Where:                   England

Place of filming:     Kent College Garden (5th Scene)

                               Garmon House (3rd Scene)

                               Dinning Hall ( 4th Scene)

                          Guilford House ( 2rst Scene; 3rd Scene; 6th Scene, Final Scene)

THE BRIEF - the titles and opening of a film in the genre of the candidates own choice,to las between two to three minutes. The film opening should include a short narrative which introduces the characters and is prologue to the film.