Monday, September 30, 2013
Treatment: Genre
A TREATMENT FOR A SHORT GENRE FILM
By
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Street corner.
Boston.
Day.
A MAN in a SHIRT AND TIE stands on the corner waiting to cross the street, walking home from work, a shadow moves across his face. Startled the man looks up to a see a flag blowing in the wind casting shadows blocking the sun.
Apartment.
Boston.
Day.
The same man enters his apartment, drops off his bag and keys, and begins to prepare a meal.
The clock in the living room reads 4:28 as the man begins to eat. In the kitchen he is eating in front of two large windows. A shadow begins to cross one of the windows. The shadow quickly slides across the man’s face and he turns to look out the window. There is nothing there.
The man washes his dishes and sits in the living room turning on the TV. As he watches he falls asleep, exhausted from work, the lights from the TV dancing on his face.
Apartment.
Boston.
Night.
The clock in the living room only reads 5:12 but the apartment is dark save the TV screen shining on the man’s face. A shadow creeps up the man toward his face and just as it covers his eyes they open and the shadow disappears. The man looks around, half asleep and blames it on the TV. He flips a light on and turns the TV off. He then changes for bed, turning the light on in his bedroom and then the hall light.
When he flips the switch to the bathroom light the bulb blows. Then the hall bulb blows, and lastly the living room bulb.
Light slips into the living room from the man’s bedroom. He cuts his foot on broken glass from the hall bulb and trips into his bedroom before kicking the door closed.
The man checks his foot for glass before wrapping it. He grabs a flashlight and looks into the living room from his doorway. Broken glass reflects on the floor. He notices the time, only 5:36. He checks his watch to confirm.
The man shines his flashlight out the windows. It’s solid black outside, his light reaching nothing. The man sits on his bed confused.
A shadow begins to creep into his room from the living room. Crawling up the wall and around until it is in front of him.
The man notices the shadow as it begins to descend the wall and slide on the ground towards him. He retreats further into his bed until his back is in a corner against the wall.
The shadow moves closer to him and light begins to leave the room. The man, terrified, tries shining the flashlight on the shadow to no avail.
The shadow almost touches him when the light leaves the room completely.
(Alternate ending)
The man fumbles with his flashlight and discover he is no longer in his bedroom, but in a dark cave. He screams.
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References: Music Video
Family photo feel...
Treatment: Music Video
Song: Closer
Artist: The Tiny
Album: Close Enough
Fade to black.
Artist: The Tiny
Album: Close Enough
CLOSER
A TREATMENT FOR A MUSIC VIDEO
By
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Apartment.
Boston.
Day.
Wide of a bright white mantelpiece filled to the edge with PICTURES IN FRAMES, all of the same couple. Reverse shot, focused on the back of the frames, of the living room, a WOMAN is moving out of focus in the background (she is the woman in the pictures).
Park.
Boston.
Day.
A MAN and a WOMAN (the same woman in the apartment) sit on a bench. Both on are opposite ends of the bench only their torsos and legs visible. They cut off at the neck.
A series of shots in the apartment and the park (maybe slow motion)…
- a framed photo of the couple younger kissing
- a photo of the couple posing in front of the State House
- wide of the bench, faces still not visible, the two people are closer
- a photo of the couple graduating, standing within their class
- a photo of the couple at a party with friends, wide smiles, on the couch
- the camera is closer to the bench, the people closer as well
- a photo of the couple playing frisbee outside
- a photo of the couple standing in front of the Charles River
- camera closer to the bench, people closer
- a photo of the couple at the local theater waiting in line with friends
- a photo couple at the Aquarium looking at the manatees
As the Aquarium framed photo is shown in a close up on the mantelpiece, a woman’s hand pulls it out of frame.
Wide of the mantelpiece, the woman is now removing the photos one by one from the mantelpiece and placing them into a box in her arms. When half of the images are taken down the woman places the box on the ground on the left side of the mantelpiece.
Cutting between park and apartment.
The two sitting at the bench are now shown closer, their knees almost touching, nothing else is in the image to draw attention away from them.
Wide of the mantelpiece. The woman is taking down the last of the photographs and placing them in the box. Only a few remain.
The two people at the bench are now touching, their heads resting on each others. It is the couple from the photos. We can see every moment they make contact.
Cut to a close up of the last photograph placed in the box. It is of the couple sitting on the bench, heads resting on one another.
Wide shot of the empty mantelpiece with the now full box sitting slightly to the left in front of it. The woman has left the room.
Fade to black.
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