Project 05
Treatment
Project 05:
So in this project the assignment was to use one of those pitch ideas ive done earlier and turn it into a script but before that i had to do the "Treatment". What is treatment you might ask?
Treatment is basically a document made solely for the writers or directors own story development purposes.
1.
Pitch Idea's
2.
Story
So as i finished up adding some ideas to each pitch like i said some idea's stood out more and the one i picked was " A
young man faces all kinds of difficulties to get to work on time. ". I wanted to have a funny concept with a normal character who experiences the most unlucky day of his life where everything just goes upside down. Story needs to be short, easy to understand, have a goal or ultimatum and also be able to relate to the audience. I also wanted to have a surprise twist on the end of the story.
Surprise
The character thinks its just a bad dream to the end until he in the end realizes that it all actually did happen to him.
3. Script
Evaluation:
Reading through this couple times it doesn't look like best thing ive done but this is the first time i do this. Ive done projects like this before but ive never done this whole "treatment" so there will probably be some mistakes! I had couple good pitch idea's but this one was just easy to write, like everything just came togheter right. If there was more time i would have done more work on this cause it could be better but for now im fine with it!
Surprise
The character thinks its just a bad dream to the end until he in the end realizes that it all actually did happen to him.
3. Script
Script Treatment
Unlucky day
By: Milan Maric
By: Milan Maric
Act
1: Ready, set and go
A
middle aged man by the name John wakes up to a nightmare which has
been haunting him for past two weeks, due to the fact that his boss
at work has been threatening with firing him cause of coming late to
work.
The
man starts to panic when he sees that he forgot to set up the alarm
on the clock.
Without
too much thinking he jumps out of the bed and runs downstairs to
quickly mix and mashes something real quick for breakfast.
John
eats breakfast, showers, shaves and brushes his teeth in what would
seem like couple minutes only to stop in-front of his car after
realizing that his car is broken.
The
panic is slowly creeping into him and the stress, he needs to figure
out something really fast or hes gonna be late to work again.
Just
when John was ready to give in, his eyes caught a glimpse of his old
bike the happiness on his face...priceless.
Act
2: Trip
The
fresh air is calming John down and brings back old thoughts and chill
feelings but he knows he has to hurry even thou work is downtown it
will take at least half an hour to get there on bike.
John
knowing the way by heart knows that there is going to be a traffic
jam on the main street so he decides to take a shortcut .As he was
breaking to take the shortcut John realized that the breaks on the
bike weren't as good as they used to, so he had to be careful.
The
time was starting to catch up with him and just in-front of him there
was a cleaning truck, dusting away all the rubble from the winter
snow, John having bad time turns to left side to pass the truck. Just
as he was turning left an car is rushing towards John on the opposite
lane.
He
panics and immediately turns left ride over to the sidewalk but what
John didn't see was the the sidewalk was leading to some stairs. John
tries to break but the breaks were broken, the bike breaks up in two
and he falls off the bike.
Luckily
he didn't get too beat up it was just some scratch injuries he could
live with, he picks him self up and the bike parts all in
disappointment and keeps walking to work rest of the way.
Act
3: Destination
John
is walking with the parts of what used to be his bike towards his
work and hes almost there he can see the building and hes imagining
in his head all kinds of hell his boss is going to give to him. But
he doesn't really care he already knows that he is going to get
fired.
As
he got to the building John sees the "CLOSED" sign on the
door and then it hits him, it's actually Saturday today. The man
burst into pure happiness only to be followed by rage cause of
everything that happened to him today.
In
his enraged state he grabs one of the bicycle wheels and throws it
without looking, the wheel flies over couple parked cars only to hit
a police car which was parked.
Out
of the car two police officers step out and walk towards John, the
young man out of exhaustion passes out.
John
wakes up in a bed with pillow and sheets starring towards the
ceiling, as hes realizing that this all was just a bad dream a fat
smile slowly forms on his face.
Feeling
back to normal he turns to the side still smiling only to abruptly
find out that everything that he thought was happening to him in a
dream actually did happen and that he was in jail!
Reading through this couple times it doesn't look like best thing ive done but this is the first time i do this. Ive done projects like this before but ive never done this whole "treatment" so there will probably be some mistakes! I had couple good pitch idea's but this one was just easy to write, like everything just came togheter right. If there was more time i would have done more work on this cause it could be better but for now im fine with it!
