Tuesday 25 March 2014

Film Treatment - Existence

*Warning Spoilers Contained*
The film begins with a pan down of the engineer entering his house and noticing a letter labelled 'urgent' on the floor – close up is used for this, which he opens. After viewing the letter he becomes distraught after seeing that he has got sacked from his job as a computer engineer. The engineer then embarks on an all night alcohol debacle – this is to be represented through constant zoom ins and outs on his face. Half of the film will be in documentary style, half will be in tradition film noir style.

Pan down from a road sign to the engineer looking extremely roughed up from all night drinking as he begins to make his way home. Slow motion POV shots will be used to convey his drunken disrupted state. Shallow focus shot of a woman walking into focus comes into view, this is Laura. Laura engages the engineer in conversation, although he is reluctant to talk at first, then remembers Laura from their time at university – over the shoulder shots to be used to show their conversation. After learning of the engineer's current state of unemployment Laura proposes a new kind of job. Hacking banks to steal money from them. The engineer is hesitant at first then accepts the role.

The engineer and Laura start work straight away, and as the job starts both parties find success in their 'unique business'.  Mis-en-scene in The happiness spreads as the two begin a relationship with one another. The engineer then randomly one day notices files left open on Lauren's laptop that show how she divides the money between both her and him. The figures in the amount of money Laura has obtained are incongruent to the amount she has told the engineer. The engineer immediately confronts her on this and demands her to give him the money he is owed. She refuses and after that each character vows to take the other down by informing the bank being extorted on one another. The two characters also make death threats to each other, foreshadowing the future. 

Although the two characters have stated on informing each other, neither has done so A large amount of high and low angles are to be used in conveying characters positions of power. He embarks on independently finding the hackers who have been extorting his employers. The engineer pays a visit to the office of Laura in broad daylight, entering from the back of the building to an un-armed Laura - who is compiling an alibi against the engineer. She is shocked when he appears, intimately touching her neck behind her and he places his hand around her neck. He then asks her to turn around to face him, and then strangles her tp death whilst sadistically staring at her – this will be shown through a canted angle to represent both characters inevitable negative fates.

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