Film Treatment

Film treatment is a detailed outline of a synopsis.Descibing the shorfilm in the simplest manner but explaining the scenes with camera shots and angles. The tone and feel of the film. The color palatte, the editing techniques, key lighting and the sound.

Title:  Elevator

Duration: 5-7minutes

Location: Public building

Characters:  A young couple (Aged 18-19years)

                     A mother with her child

                     A business man

                     A young boy (Aged 13-15)

                     An old asthmatic man

 6 people who don't know each other, use the same lift to go to their own destinations. All these passengers use the same lift and as it stops at a certain floor, the young boy(Aged 13-15) walks out. The lift door shuts and moves up again. At this point, the lift gets stuck due to power shortage and the lights flicker a bit. The passengers are trapped with no mobile signals till help arrives. Each person has her/his own story/problem. At first all the passengers give each other consolation that there's nothing to worry about and keep each other busy with their own life tales, meanwhile the young girl (Couple) tries to call the helpline, hoping to get signals. But as time passes by they all begin to get agitated. The business man gets paranoid as he's getting late for his appointment. The young couple begin to fight over their problems and the baby starts crying. The business man starts to quarrel with the mother to quiet down the baby. The young couple start to quarrel more that the mother diverts her argument from the business man to the couple. Moments later the business notices a strange odour and says it loud. The mother suddenly looks at her child who now has wet his pants. The mother shifts her attention to help her child but then gets distracted and moves her attention towards helping the young couple. Minutes later, help  arrives and the lift is back on power. Everyone exists in their own way, leaving the young couple behind. The lift door closes.

Scene 1: Young couple walking on the side walk and moving towards the building.

Here we show the camera focusing on the couple and panning from left to right as they walk towards the building. This would be a long shot. A taxi stops near the building, This will be in the same shot.

Then a mid shot of the mother as she pays the fair to the taxi driver and holds her childs hand and walks towards the building.

Light: Natural light. Daylight.

Sound: Digectic sound. The sound of traffic and comotion. 

Scene 2: This scene is shot from inside the building. Focusing on the elevator as it opens and a front mid close up shot of the young couple entering followed by the mother with her child, an old man, a young boy aged (14-16).

We show the close up of the life closing just when the business man puts his arm in between the elevator to prevent it from closing. Mid close up shot of this scene. And then as the elevator opens he quickly gets inside.

Light: Low key lighting

Sound: Digectic Sound. Sound of the elevator opening and closing. Peoples comotion.

Scene 3: The lift goes up and opens on the next floor. The young boy (aged 14-16) exits. The lift goes up.

In this scene the camera does a mid shot on which floor the lift stops and opens and then pans slightly down to get a mid shot of the young boy who now exits the lift and the lift closes.

Light: High key light

Sound: Digectuc sound. Sound of the music the boy is listening to from his headphones as he exits. Sound of the elevator as it opens and closes

Scene 4: As the lift goes up, it gets stuck. Lights flicker. The passengers get worried.

In this scene the camera does a close-up of the passengers,showing their expressions and emotions, as they are trapped with no mobile signals passengers.

Light: Low key lighting

Sound: Sound of the elevator getting stuck.

Scene 5: In the the next scene,there will be a midshot where the business man gets paranoid, couple gets into a fight and the baby starts crying.

Light: Low key lighting

Sound: the noise of the baby crying.

Scene 6: The business man starts to quarrel with the mother to quiet down the baby. The young couple start to quarrel more that the mother diverts her argument from the business man to the couple.

In this scene the camera gives a close up of the business man quarreling to the women. And then the camera pans towards the couple giving a close up as they start fighting. Then there will be a closeup as the mother diverts her argument from the business man to the couple.

Light: Low key lighting

Sound: quarreling of the business man and the couple fighting.

Scene 7: . there will be a closeup of the business man showing his expressions who notices a strange odour. The camera pans towards the mother, and as she looks down to her baby who now has wet his pants the camers will tilt down.

Light: low key lighting

Sound: Ambiance and the noise of the crying baby.

Scene 8: In the next scene the camera will give a closeup of the mother who shifts her attention to help her child but then gets distracted and then the camera will pan towards the couple.

Light: Low key lighting

Sound: noise of the couple fighting.

Scene 9: Help arrives and the lift is back on power. Everyone exists in their own way, leaving the young couple behind. The lift door closes.

In this scene there will be a long short showing the door of the lift opening.The camera will be static. And then there will be a mid shot showing everyone leave and the couple being left behind. And the last shot will be a long shot as the door closes.

Light: High key lighting

Sound: Opening and closing of the elevator.

Title

The title of our short film is 'Elevator. This is a pshycological thriller short film which revolves around a group of people who get trapped in an elevator and are anxiously waiting for help to arrive,with no network coverage and power shortage.They are unable to stay contact with anybody.With no space to freely move about and therefore gets frustrated.Only time will tell if the passengers will seek help or remained trapped.

The font we have selected for the title is earth kid. Our genre is pshycological thriller so we wanted our font to be slightly faded or distorted effect as we wanted to give a dull or slight horror impression to the audience.

Production Company Logo

For us to create our logo for our production company, we went through different production logos, names and their fonts.

Most of the production logos we went through were plain and simple, but some were innovative and different,which helped us creating our own production logo.

The following are the logos which we attempted to make.










Our Final logo:

Short Film Deconstruction 3

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The third film that I chose is ‘the strangers’. This film is shot by Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv. This is an action adventure film.In the first shots there is not enough lighting, which creates a suspense or tense atmosphere. There are a lot of extreme close-ups to catch the facial expressions of all the characters. There are a lot of shots that does not follow the rule of thirds. The background around the character is dark and the main focus is on their faces.

Short Film deconstruction 1

The first short film that I choose is ‘GoodBye’.This film is of 4mins and 40 seconds.In the first few scenes the more focus is to potray the facial expressions of the charachter.To have a more clear view of this they gave the close-up of the charachter's face.

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Low key lighting is used.There are more shadowy areas which is representing a sad or dreppressing mood.However,apart from the lighting, there is more focus on the background music,which creates a mood and it also describes the feelings or what the person is going through.