A
TREATMENT
FOR ‘THE SOLDIER’
Prepared For: DSL Productions
By: Kayla Lockington
18/04/2020
This film will be a minimum of 1 minute to a maximum of 2 minutes as proposed. The filming location will be at the house of one of our team members as well as the basement of an old school looking house. This is we can have a contrast between the outdoors and the confidence within a battered slum house.
Our target audience is those of a more sophisticated age rage. From ages 14 and above. The use of language is to a higher extent that younger people may find hard to follow. As well as there being a small amount of graphic violence.
After watching these are just a few techniques/ideas that would be helpful/add to our film:
Gone girl:
They have edited it so that as we see the picture of this girl on screen we can hear the voice over of a man speaking in the background along with slow eerie music. This is a good technique as it can provoke fear before the story line of the film has even begun.
Joker:
This is a very violent and vivid scene but what they have done very well is create a realistic effect for the verisimilitude of the film. The blood squirting out of the body is a clever and useful technique that would be a good idea to use in our own film, if done correctly.
The film will include 4 main characters alongside 3 protagonists. Our main 4 characters will be soldiers acting as our antagonists who are seen as the ‘heroes’ of this film. They will be in disguise/undercover (not wearing army uniform). We are only using male characters, which interludes with the stereotypical representation of females and males in how men are more useful in combat and dangerous situations. By using this idea we are facing a hard hitting problem that occurs on a regular basis throughout the world where soldiers and other law enforcement are losing their lives due to terrorist activity. The mood and overall tone of this film is heavy hearted and fearful. Our audience is constantly being surprised as if on a roller coaster of emotions. It has an almost Good VS Evil theme throughout the short film where our military men are risking their lives in order to eliminate a threat. We will have a lot of over the shoulder shots along with shaky and handheld camera movements. This will help add anticipation to the film and unstability. In order to capture all that is happening we will be using wide shots to capture all of our action features.The setting has been chosen so to comply with common conventions in how it is a large outdoor landscape that has an eerie feel. We will use rusted and older looking props to give the idea that it is set in a poverty area or that all life has been scared away as if a ghost town was left with slum-like houses. Things like guns and knives will be used as symbols that represent danger and conflict. A key part of our iconography is the military-like uniforms that our characters will be wearing. This is a clear sign that they are law enforcement personal, and that they should be there to help. Short sharp sounds like gunshots and loud ‘booms’ for our explosion will be used and all added in editing. A lot of our sounds will be diegetic life-like sounds that our characters can hear helping to add to the realism of the film. The title will be revealed at the end of the short film as well as having small editing techniques that will be used for e.g. when we switch between scenes from night to day a text will appear at the bottom of the screen where it will say the date, time and location.
Opening Summary
Beginning:
The first establishing shot is of a town located in a Roman countryside. This shot is at night time and we see light shining through the slum houses. The exchange of the document between the two soldiers takes place as well as a few lines of dialogue. One of the soldiers looks through the document, absorbing the information needed. We then cut to black where we hear sounds of our military men gearing up for what we can only assume will be a battle/fight of some sort.
Middle:
We start off with a wide shot of our soldiers walking through the mountainous terrain. Two new characters are introduced, Jack and Nathan. They are seen to be talking amongst themselves making jokes which adds a comical flair to the film, easing tension for this small period of time. An explosion goes off that then knocks two of our soldiers over, as they lie there and get their breath back. The rest of the soldiers fall back and try to retaliate. Two terrorists are seen to come over the top of the hill, aiming their rifles/weapons at the troops below. Nathan (one of the soldiers) decides to take a stand and try to shoot back at the enemies, he takes a shot to the chest and is killed instantly.
End:
Jack is seen to play hero and tries to take on one of our protagonists and this then costs him his life. Our terrorist is taken out by Ben but it is not within the time needed as Jack is already gone. The men are shocked and we finish by seeing a close up shot of Jack's facials who is distraught and shocked by the events that have just occurred.
Script
THE SOLIDER
Scene 1
FADE IN:
ESTABLISHING SHOT: The first shot is of a town located in an Arab country. This shot is at night time and we see light shining through the slum houses.
MID SHOT: Cuts to a shot of two men sitting on their mattresses, one pulls out a document and hands it to the other.
Ben
(SOLDIER one)
Is this the one?
Sully
(Captain, soldier two)
Yeah, that's him. Its taken 2 terror attacks, over 250 marines dead and 500 civilians gone for the government to actually get a clue, pttf.
CLOSE-UP SHOT: BEN starts flipping through the pages of the document and stops on the photo of the target that SULLY was talking about before. We see BEN'S facial expression turn to uncertainty and remembrance of the terrible things he has done.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows the photo of the target and we see BEN'S hands start to tighten the document. Sully intervenes when he sees this.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows SULLY talking to BEN, mid way through SULLY'S line the camera changes back to BEN as a "shot reverse Shot" technique.
Sully
Don't let it to you too much mate, it will be all over tomorrow. Try and get some sleep when are moving at 0500.
THE SOLIDER
Scene 1
FADE IN:
ESTABLISHING SHOT: The first shot is of a town located in an Arab country. This shot is at night time and we see light shining through the slum houses.
MID SHOT: Cuts to a shot of two men sitting on their mattresses, one pulls out a document and hands it to the other.
Ben
(SOLDIER one)
Is this the one?
Sully
(Captain, soldier two)
Yeah, that's him. Its taken 2 terror attacks, over 250 marines dead and 500 civilians gone for the government to actually get a clue, pttf.
CLOSE-UP SHOT: BEN starts flipping through the pages of the document and stops on the photo of the target that SULLY was talking about before. We see BEN'S facial expression turn to uncertainty and remembrance of the terrible things he has done.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows the photo of the target and we see BEN'S hands start to tighten the document. Sully intervenes when he sees this.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows SULLY talking to BEN, mid way through SULLY'S line the camera changes back to BEN as a "shot reverse Shot" technique.
Sully
Don't let it to you too much mate, it will be all over tomorrow. Try and get some sleep when are moving at 0500.
THE SOLDIER
Scene 2
Screen is all black and we hear the zips and clicks of the soldiers getting ready. Here we all can see a date and time title appear on the screen " June 7th, 2022 0500"
WIDE SHOT: Shot showing squad of soldiers in a line walking and talking to each other about life back home. This moment can be comical. Each shot is the same for each character, a Mid shot while they deliver their line and it will cut in between as the scene continues.
Jack
(Soldier 2)
My feet might as well fall off with all this walking we are doing.
Nathan
(Soldier 3)
It doesn't bother me, these walks remind me of home. All the long walks on the beach, man I miss it...
Jack
Yeah, yeah yeah whatever Nathan, your constant blabbering of home doesn't make me miss "long walks on the beach" it reminds me of the girls! Ohh man just being able to chat to the birds on a Friday night, awgh I miss it!
Speaking of the birds, how's your lovely lady going Benny boy?
Jack turns and gives Ben a wink and a cheeky grin
Ben
You mean my wife?
Jack
Yeeeah that's the one, is she still all "flexible" like the old days aye?
JACK seems to find all of this a "good ol laugh with the boys" but BEN and SULLY find the comments immature and distracting.
Ben
Oh really mate, you had to go there. I mean come on she's my wif-
As BEN is about to talk to JACK we see an explosion go off very close to the soldiers. Nathan and Ben are blown to the ground as they are the two in front of the line. Sully immediately takes charge as the captain, yelling at the soldiers on what they should do. JACK switches out of his immature way and immediately realizes the danger at hand. Two enemies stand at the top of a hill firing down at the squad. They quickly take cover under the bank side and try to eliminate the two target at the top of the hill. Wide shot showing the soldiers scramble to get to cover and start firing at the targets.
SULLY
CONTACT, CONTACT, CONTACT! Open fire North West, two targets!
CLOSE-UP: Ben struggles to get up with ringing still in his ears. Him and Nathan get up as fast as they can helping each other and they throw themselves onto the bank side for cover.
Sully
They have found us! Keep your fire up! Ben! What are you doing, eliminate the targets!
BEN'S ringing in his ears finally stop and he rolls onto his stomach and begins firing at the targets, NATHAN is still in shock.
CLOSE-UP: Showing NATHAN looking at his squad, he realizes that they could be dead in minutes if someone doesn't do something drastic. NATHAN decides to stand up and take shots at the targets.
TRACKING SHOT: Showing NATHAN rise up and lift his gun towards the targets.
WIDE SHOT: Immediately NATHAN is shot twice in the chest and we see blood fly out of his body. NATHAN crumples to the ground and the squad rush to help.
CLOSE-UP: BEN being the medic of the group and also the closes to NATHAN immediately starts to help him.
CLOSE-UP: Showing Sully getting upset and angry towards what has happened and we see him cock his gun aim and fire two clean shots at each of the targets, eliminating them both.
WIDE SHOT: Showing SULLY running up the hill and looking for more targets, CAMERA PANS to BEN and JACK scrambling to try and save NATHAN.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN giving CPR while telling jack what do to. JACK is rummaging around to try and find what BEN is telling him to get.
Ben
Come on! Come on! Jack get me my bandages, left side of my backpack!
Jack
On it!
TACKING-OTS-SHOT: Showing SULLY walking down the hill and stand over BEN and JACK trying to save NATHAN, blood is all over the floor and some is splattered on BEN and JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN face and his expression when SULLY tells him to keep moving as they don't have much time.
Sully
Come on kid we gotta keep moving, we don't have much time.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN wipe some sweat off his forehead and leaving the blood of NATHAN.
Cuts to black with dramatic sound effect
THE SOLIDER
SCENE 3
MID-SHOT: Showing the line of soldiers now at only 3 walking down a hill and past the two enemies lying on the floor. SULLY who is leading the line points to where he thinks the target is and where the men need to be heading.
Sully
There look he has got be over there somewhere, these must have been the guards that we took out.
MID SHOT: Showing the back of SULLY as he enters a new area and we see the main target reloading his pistol. He spots the soldiers and immediately runs. This is where the chase scene starts.
Jack
I'll cut him off you guys keep on him!
WIDE-SHOT: We see JACK run up the hill to try and cut our target off, BEN and SULLY run directly after him. As they start running we hear a gun shot and a scream. SULLY and BEN look at each other and realize its JACK. As the pair follow JACK trail they find themselves at a top of a hill looking down at JACK on his knees with the target holding a gun to his head. BEN scrambles for his weapon aims it up and takes a shot. The target shoots first and kills JACK and BEN's shot is right after taking out the target but not in time to save JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN looking shocked at what just happened and then the camera cuts to a WIDE SHOT showing jack lying on the ground,
SCENE
Scene 2
Screen is all black and we hear the zips and clicks of the soldiers getting ready. Here we all can see a date and time title appear on the screen " June 7th, 2022 0500"
WIDE SHOT: Shot showing squad of soldiers in a line walking and talking to each other about life back home. This moment can be comical. Each shot is the same for each character, a Mid shot while they deliver their line and it will cut in between as the scene continues.
Jack
(Soldier 2)
My feet might as well fall off with all this walking we are doing.
Nathan
(Soldier 3)
It doesn't bother me, these walks remind me of home. All the long walks on the beach, man I miss it...
Jack
Yeah, yeah yeah whatever Nathan, your constant blabbering of home doesn't make me miss "long walks on the beach" it reminds me of the girls! Ohh man just being able to chat to the birds on a Friday night, awgh I miss it!
Speaking of the birds, how's your lovely lady going Benny boy?
Jack turns and gives Ben a wink and a cheeky grin
Ben
You mean my wife?
Jack
Yeeeah that's the one, is she still all "flexible" like the old days aye?
JACK seems to find all of this a "good ol laugh with the boys" but BEN and SULLY find the comments immature and distracting.
Ben
Oh really mate, you had to go there. I mean come on she's my wif-
As BEN is about to talk to JACK we see an explosion go off very close to the soldiers. Nathan and Ben are blown to the ground as they are the two in front of the line. Sully immediately takes charge as the captain, yelling at the soldiers on what they should do. JACK switches out of his immature way and immediately realizes the danger at hand. Two enemies stand at the top of a hill firing down at the squad. They quickly take cover under the bank side and try to eliminate the two target at the top of the hill. Wide shot showing the soldiers scramble to get to cover and start firing at the targets.
SULLY
CONTACT, CONTACT, CONTACT! Open fire North West, two targets!
CLOSE-UP: Ben struggles to get up with ringing still in his ears. Him and Nathan get up as fast as they can helping each other and they throw themselves onto the bank side for cover.
Sully
They have found us! Keep your fire up! Ben! What are you doing, eliminate the targets!
BEN'S ringing in his ears finally stop and he rolls onto his stomach and begins firing at the targets, NATHAN is still in shock.
CLOSE-UP: Showing NATHAN looking at his squad, he realizes that they could be dead in minutes if someone doesn't do something drastic. NATHAN decides to stand up and take shots at the targets.
TRACKING SHOT: Showing NATHAN rise up and lift his gun towards the targets.
WIDE SHOT: Immediately NATHAN is shot twice in the chest and we see blood fly out of his body. NATHAN crumples to the ground and the squad rush to help.
CLOSE-UP: BEN being the medic of the group and also the closes to NATHAN immediately starts to help him.
CLOSE-UP: Showing Sully getting upset and angry towards what has happened and we see him cock his gun aim and fire two clean shots at each of the targets, eliminating them both.
WIDE SHOT: Showing SULLY running up the hill and looking for more targets, CAMERA PANS to BEN and JACK scrambling to try and save NATHAN.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN giving CPR while telling jack what do to. JACK is rummaging around to try and find what BEN is telling him to get.
Ben
Come on! Come on! Jack get me my bandages, left side of my backpack!
Jack
On it!
TACKING-OTS-SHOT: Showing SULLY walking down the hill and stand over BEN and JACK trying to save NATHAN, blood is all over the floor and some is splattered on BEN and JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN face and his expression when SULLY tells him to keep moving as they don't have much time.
Sully
Come on kid we gotta keep moving, we don't have much time.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN wipe some sweat off his forehead and leaving the blood of NATHAN.
Cuts to black with dramatic sound effect
THE SOLIDER
SCENE 3
MID-SHOT: Showing the line of soldiers now at only 3 walking down a hill and past the two enemies lying on the floor. SULLY who is leading the line points to where he thinks the target is and where the men need to be heading.
Sully
There look he has got be over there somewhere, these must have been the guards that we took out.
MID SHOT: Showing the back of SULLY as he enters a new area and we see the main target reloading his pistol. He spots the soldiers and immediately runs. This is where the chase scene starts.
Jack
I'll cut him off you guys keep on him!
WIDE-SHOT: We see JACK run up the hill to try and cut our target off, BEN and SULLY run directly after him. As they start running we hear a gun shot and a scream. SULLY and BEN look at each other and realize its JACK. As the pair follow JACK trail they find themselves at a top of a hill looking down at JACK on his knees with the target holding a gun to his head. BEN scrambles for his weapon aims it up and takes a shot. The target shoots first and kills JACK and BEN's shot is right after taking out the target but not in time to save JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN looking shocked at what just happened and then the camera cuts to a WIDE SHOT showing jack lying on the ground,
SCENE
THE SOLIDER
Scene 1
FADE IN:
ESTABLISHING SHOT: The first shot is of a town located in an Arab country. This shot is at night time and we see light shining through the slum houses.
MID SHOT: Cuts to a shot of two men sitting on their mattresses, one pulls out a document and hands it to the other.
Ben
(SOLDIER one)
Is this the one?
Sully
(Captain, soldier two)
Yeah, that's him. Its taken 2 terror attacks, over 250 marines dead and 500 civilians gone for the government to actually get a clue, pttf.
CLOSE-UP SHOT: BEN starts flipping through the pages of the document and stops on the photo of the target that SULLY was talking about before. We see BEN'S facial expression turn to uncertainty and remembrance of the terrible things he has done.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows the photo of the target and we see BEN'S hands start to tighten the document. Sully intervenes when he sees this.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows SULLY talking to BEN, mid way through SULLY'S line the camera changes back to BEN as a "shot reverse Shot" technique.
Sully
Don't let it to you too much mate, it will be all over tomorrow. Try and get some sleep when are moving at 0500.
Scene 1
FADE IN:
ESTABLISHING SHOT: The first shot is of a town located in an Arab country. This shot is at night time and we see light shining through the slum houses.
MID SHOT: Cuts to a shot of two men sitting on their mattresses, one pulls out a document and hands it to the other.
Ben
(SOLDIER one)
Is this the one?
Sully
(Captain, soldier two)
Yeah, that's him. Its taken 2 terror attacks, over 250 marines dead and 500 civilians gone for the government to actually get a clue, pttf.
CLOSE-UP SHOT: BEN starts flipping through the pages of the document and stops on the photo of the target that SULLY was talking about before. We see BEN'S facial expression turn to uncertainty and remembrance of the terrible things he has done.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows the photo of the target and we see BEN'S hands start to tighten the document. Sully intervenes when he sees this.
OTS SHOT: Camera shows SULLY talking to BEN, mid way through SULLY'S line the camera changes back to BEN as a "shot reverse Shot" technique.
Sully
Don't let it to you too much mate, it will be all over tomorrow. Try and get some sleep when are moving at 0500.
THE SOLDIER
Scene 2
Screen is all black and we hear the zips and clicks of the soldiers getting ready. Here we all can see a date and time title appear on the screen " June 7th, 2022 0500"
WIDE SHOT: Shot showing squad of soldiers in a line walking and talking to each other about life back home. This moment can be comical. Each shot is the same for each character, a Mid shot while they deliver their line and it will cut in between as the scene continues.
Jack
(Soldier 2)
My feet might as well fall off with all this walking we are doing.
Nathan
(Soldier 3)
It doesn't bother me, these walks remind me of home. All the long walks on the beach, man I miss it...
Jack
Yeah, yeah yeah whatever Nathan, your constant blabbering of home doesn't make me miss "long walks on the beach" it reminds me of the girls! Ohh man just being able to chat to the birds on a Friday night, awgh I miss it!
Speaking of the birds, how's your lovely lady going Benny boy?
Jack turns and gives Ben a wink and a cheeky grin
Ben
You mean my wife?
Jack
Yeeeah that's the one, is she still all "flexible" like the old days aye?
JACK seems to find all of this a "good ol laugh with the boys" but BEN and SULLY find the comments immature and distracting.
Ben
Oh really mate, you had to go there. I mean come on she's my wif-
As BEN is about to talk to JACK we see an explosion go off very close to the soldiers. Nathan and Ben are blown to the ground as they are the two in front of the line. Sully immediately takes charge as the captain, yelling at the soldiers on what they should do. JACK switches out of his immature way and immediately realizes the danger at hand. Two enemies stand at the top of a hill firing down at the squad. They quickly take cover under the bank side and try to eliminate the two target at the top of the hill. Wide shot showing the soldiers scramble to get to cover and start firing at the targets.
SULLY
CONTACT, CONTACT, CONTACT! Open fire North West, two targets!
CLOSE-UP: Ben struggles to get up with ringing still in his ears. Him and Nathan get up as fast as they can helping each other and they throw themselves onto the bank side for cover.
Sully
They have found us! Keep your fire up! Ben! What are you doing, eliminate the targets!
BEN'S ringing in his ears finally stop and he rolls onto his stomach and begins firing at the targets, NATHAN is still in shock.
CLOSE-UP: Showing NATHAN looking at his squad, he realizes that they could be dead in minutes if someone doesn't do something drastic. NATHAN decides to stand up and take shots at the targets.
TRACKING SHOT: Showing NATHAN rise up and lift his gun towards the targets.
WIDE SHOT: Immediately NATHAN is shot twice in the chest and we see blood fly out of his body. NATHAN crumples to the ground and the squad rush to help.
CLOSE-UP: BEN being the medic of the group and also the closes to NATHAN immediately starts to help him.
CLOSE-UP: Showing Sully getting upset and angry towards what has happened and we see him cock his gun aim and fire two clean shots at each of the targets, eliminating them both.
WIDE SHOT: Showing SULLY running up the hill and looking for more targets, CAMERA PANS to BEN and JACK scrambling to try and save NATHAN.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN giving CPR while telling jack what do to. JACK is rummaging around to try and find what BEN is telling him to get.
Ben
Come on! Come on! Jack get me my bandages, left side of my backpack!
Jack
On it!
TACKING-OTS-SHOT: Showing SULLY walking down the hill and stand over BEN and JACK trying to save NATHAN, blood is all over the floor and some is splattered on BEN and JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN face and his expression when SULLY tells him to keep moving as they don't have much time.
Sully
Come on kid we gotta keep moving, we don't have much time.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN wipe some sweat off his forehead and leaving the blood of NATHAN.
Cuts to black with dramatic sound effect
THE SOLIDER
SCENE 3
MID-SHOT: Showing the line of soldiers now at only 3 walking down a hill and past the two enemies lying on the floor. SULLY who is leading the line points to where he thinks the target is and where the men need to be heading.
Sully
There look he has got be over there somewhere, these must have been the guards that we took out.
MID SHOT: Showing the back of SULLY as he enters a new area and we see the main target reloading his pistol. He spots the soldiers and immediately runs. This is where the chase scene starts.
Jack
I'll cut him off you guys keep on him!
WIDE-SHOT: We see JACK run up the hill to try and cut our target off, BEN and SULLY run directly after him. As they start running we hear a gun shot and a scream. SULLY and BEN look at each other and realize its JACK. As the pair follow JACK trail they find themselves at a top of a hill looking down at JACK on his knees with the target holding a gun to his head. BEN scrambles for his weapon aims it up and takes a shot. The target shoots first and kills JACK and BEN's shot is right after taking out the target but not in time to save JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN looking shocked at what just happened and then the camera cuts to a WIDE SHOT showing jack lying on the ground,
SCENE
Scene 2
Screen is all black and we hear the zips and clicks of the soldiers getting ready. Here we all can see a date and time title appear on the screen " June 7th, 2022 0500"
WIDE SHOT: Shot showing squad of soldiers in a line walking and talking to each other about life back home. This moment can be comical. Each shot is the same for each character, a Mid shot while they deliver their line and it will cut in between as the scene continues.
Jack
(Soldier 2)
My feet might as well fall off with all this walking we are doing.
Nathan
(Soldier 3)
It doesn't bother me, these walks remind me of home. All the long walks on the beach, man I miss it...
Jack
Yeah, yeah yeah whatever Nathan, your constant blabbering of home doesn't make me miss "long walks on the beach" it reminds me of the girls! Ohh man just being able to chat to the birds on a Friday night, awgh I miss it!
Speaking of the birds, how's your lovely lady going Benny boy?
Jack turns and gives Ben a wink and a cheeky grin
Ben
You mean my wife?
Jack
Yeeeah that's the one, is she still all "flexible" like the old days aye?
JACK seems to find all of this a "good ol laugh with the boys" but BEN and SULLY find the comments immature and distracting.
Ben
Oh really mate, you had to go there. I mean come on she's my wif-
As BEN is about to talk to JACK we see an explosion go off very close to the soldiers. Nathan and Ben are blown to the ground as they are the two in front of the line. Sully immediately takes charge as the captain, yelling at the soldiers on what they should do. JACK switches out of his immature way and immediately realizes the danger at hand. Two enemies stand at the top of a hill firing down at the squad. They quickly take cover under the bank side and try to eliminate the two target at the top of the hill. Wide shot showing the soldiers scramble to get to cover and start firing at the targets.
SULLY
CONTACT, CONTACT, CONTACT! Open fire North West, two targets!
CLOSE-UP: Ben struggles to get up with ringing still in his ears. Him and Nathan get up as fast as they can helping each other and they throw themselves onto the bank side for cover.
Sully
They have found us! Keep your fire up! Ben! What are you doing, eliminate the targets!
BEN'S ringing in his ears finally stop and he rolls onto his stomach and begins firing at the targets, NATHAN is still in shock.
CLOSE-UP: Showing NATHAN looking at his squad, he realizes that they could be dead in minutes if someone doesn't do something drastic. NATHAN decides to stand up and take shots at the targets.
TRACKING SHOT: Showing NATHAN rise up and lift his gun towards the targets.
WIDE SHOT: Immediately NATHAN is shot twice in the chest and we see blood fly out of his body. NATHAN crumples to the ground and the squad rush to help.
CLOSE-UP: BEN being the medic of the group and also the closes to NATHAN immediately starts to help him.
CLOSE-UP: Showing Sully getting upset and angry towards what has happened and we see him cock his gun aim and fire two clean shots at each of the targets, eliminating them both.
WIDE SHOT: Showing SULLY running up the hill and looking for more targets, CAMERA PANS to BEN and JACK scrambling to try and save NATHAN.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN giving CPR while telling jack what do to. JACK is rummaging around to try and find what BEN is telling him to get.
Ben
Come on! Come on! Jack get me my bandages, left side of my backpack!
Jack
On it!
TACKING-OTS-SHOT: Showing SULLY walking down the hill and stand over BEN and JACK trying to save NATHAN, blood is all over the floor and some is splattered on BEN and JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN face and his expression when SULLY tells him to keep moving as they don't have much time.
Sully
Come on kid we gotta keep moving, we don't have much time.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN wipe some sweat off his forehead and leaving the blood of NATHAN.
Cuts to black with dramatic sound effect
THE SOLIDER
SCENE 3
MID-SHOT: Showing the line of soldiers now at only 3 walking down a hill and past the two enemies lying on the floor. SULLY who is leading the line points to where he thinks the target is and where the men need to be heading.
Sully
There look he has got be over there somewhere, these must have been the guards that we took out.
MID SHOT: Showing the back of SULLY as he enters a new area and we see the main target reloading his pistol. He spots the soldiers and immediately runs. This is where the chase scene starts.
Jack
I'll cut him off you guys keep on him!
WIDE-SHOT: We see JACK run up the hill to try and cut our target off, BEN and SULLY run directly after him. As they start running we hear a gun shot and a scream. SULLY and BEN look at each other and realize its JACK. As the pair follow JACK trail they find themselves at a top of a hill looking down at JACK on his knees with the target holding a gun to his head. BEN scrambles for his weapon aims it up and takes a shot. The target shoots first and kills JACK and BEN's shot is right after taking out the target but not in time to save JACK.
CLOSE-UP: Showing BEN looking shocked at what just happened and then the camera cuts to a WIDE SHOT showing jack lying on the ground,
SCENE
Media
Preliminary task 2
Planning (Concept)
The title of my film is ‘The Soldier’. It is correlating with the main plot of the film and how it is mostly based around our male military men.
The 6-15 genre conventions I will include in my film are certain props like knives and guns that usually evoke fear and worry from the audience. These are common weapons used in a thriller movie. A lot of quick cuts will be used alongside shaky and hand held camera movements. This will mimic the unstableness of the characters in the scene. By using unsteady film it can also trick the audience into thinking something like an explosion is happening which is what we will be doing. We will mix our camera work alongside buckets of dirt and water spray bottles to create a ‘mini’ explosion. We will have a clear protagonist ( our terrorist(s)) who is being hunted by our military ‘heroes’ who will be our clear antagonists. There will be dull lighting and little to no lighting is some shots, helping create the sense of the unknown whereas the shots that are taken outdoors will have natural lighting, helping to immerse the audience, making it almost more realistic. Our film is more following the ideas of an action thriller. During the editing process we will use loud sudden sounds but also contrasting it will be a use of eerie non diegetic music.
Plot/story line:
We will begin with an establishing shot of an isolated slum house, somewhere in what looks to be russian farmland (hills and greenery). It is set at night time and all we will see is a dim yellow light shining through the windows of our ‘slum’ house. The film will start off with a slow and eerie presence. There will be an exchange of a document between two of our main characters which will be our object being given/taken. It will then transition into hearing the two soldiers starting to gear up in order to catch our protagonist (terrorist). Editing techniques will be used here in order to create a blackout whilst we can still hear the clips and loading of guns in the background. Our soldiers will be seen walking out as a troop talking about memories and other gossip topics, this will be seen as a more comical scene that almost breaks/eases the tension for a couple of seconds. An explosion soon takes place near the soldiers front of line two characters are blown down. The terrorists are then seen from the top of the hill shooting down at our ‘troops’. One of our characters tries to take a stand and shoot back but alas his attempts are unsuccessful and ends up getting himself killed. Another soldier is then killed from acting out of impulsive decision making. Finally the target is gun downed but at the expense of two men.
Characters:
Sully (Captain)
Sully is the leader of the operation and all directions and decisions are up to him. He is in charge of his men and is the one who is ordering his troops to hunt these men.
Ben (Soldier)
Ben is our first soldier that we are introduced to. He is the one we see making the exchange with Sully in our very first scene.
Nathan (Soldier)
Nathan is our first soldier to die. He takes a courageous yet bold act that ends up costing him his life. This adds to the realism in how not all things have a happy ending.
Jack (Soldier)
Jack is our last soldier to die. He is the one who helps to end our story/film. By making a reckless decision out of anger and frustration that costs him his life. This is when Sully and Ben then have the opportunity to gun down our terrorists
Terrorist 1
Terrorist 1 is seen to be causing all the destruction alongside terrorist 2. They are the main protagonists in this film, the ones who are causing the obstacle that needs to be overcome. Terrorist 1 is the one who is seen to shoot Jack at the last moment before getting shot himself.
Terrorist 2
Terrorist 2 has mainly the same role and idea as terrorist 1. We decided to use two roles as it is more intimidating facing more than one set of manpower. Terrorist 2 is taken down somewhere amongst the shooting and attacks.
Practicalities of filming/content:
Our idea is based on real life situations that we see all the time happening around the world and it is a serious problem that can cause world terror. Re-creating that fear and the realism of the situation will not exactly be easy but we have to make sure that our camera and verisimilitude of the film appeals to the audience. Since we are using guns as props even though they will not be loaded we will have someone who is trained in handling weapons, on sight at all times. This will be one of our main and biggest health and safety issues. Most of our shooting will be done at one of our team members' houses as they have a farmland type landscape. Unfortunately this means that our travel time will be increased and we will only be able to get our shots on the weekend. All other local film that is needed can be done after school.
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