Planning: Film Treatment

Within our teaser trailer we will start by introducing a sub-urban city scape, as an establishing shot, introducing a location to the audience.

We have decided to shoot all of the footage at night/ evenings, as we believe this will enhance the gritty effect we are trying to portray throughout our 'teaser trailer' as well as being the most convienient time to film due to our busy lives.

The film will follow through from the introduction of a location into a variety of fast shots illustrating the urban lifestyles, these may consist of; a mugging, drug dealing, on the run from the police etc.

We are planning on having a freeze frame of several characters to play with the pace of the trailer, if we do this properly then I believe this will be discomforting for the audience almost similar to a delirious state. The freeze frames can also be beneficial to the relationship between the audience and the characters within the trailer, capturing powerful emotions, drawing in the audience to the film.

We have also decided on including several black screens with information to the film such as; tagline, director, recognisable character names and possibly a rough release date. These short, snappy strikes of information accompanied by a black screen will highlight to the audience useful information to remember and talk about.

We are currently unsure on whether to include much dialogue, we may allow the music and black screens to speak for itself, enhancing the enigma/tease within the 'teaser trailer'.