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Treatment Sheet

Film noir opening sequence

TREATMENT SHEET

2013 By Daniel, Liam and Jacob.

Contents

Story Outline…………2

Castlist…………2

Overview…………2

Outline…………2

Synopsis…………3

Technical Information…………3

Props…………3

Costumes…………4

Locations…………4

Cast list

 Witness  (Reginald): James Brewer

Detective (Timothy): Kyle

Femme fatale/murderer (Kathy): Holly Barker

Murdered man (Donald): Daniel West

Who Donald Argues with (Rex): Sam Forster

Larry the bartender: Liam

Overview of story

Donald has cheated on and abused his girlfriend Kathy and she is out for revenge. Donald and Rex have been arguing about his treatment of Kathy and are witnessed by Reginald making Rex the prime suspect of the murder.

Outline of opening Film Noir sequence

Beginning- Canted angle- Match and action of Donald carrying Kathy over to the bed as they walk through the door, POV shot of Donald throwing Kathy on to the bed, a long shot through the peep hole at Kathy grabbing Donald by the tie and shooting him in the torso. Zooms out from the peephole to show close up of sign on door – 69 Honeymoon Suite, ‘Suite’ melts away and ‘Revenge’ slaps where it was. Title sequence – ‘Honeymoon Revenge’ 

Middle- Bar scene- Shot reverse shot- Reginald talking to Timothy about murder, Cross cut to dead body in bedroom-Various POVs from detective as detectives take pictures of the crime scene, various close ups show bullet wound and blood, as this scene goes on a narrative plays over of the witness speaking (Reginald) who is speaking to the detective (Timothy) Flashing of cameras leads into flashback

End- Flashback- Long POV shot- Witness walks past alleyway and overhears Donald and Rex arguing about Donald’s mistreatment of Kathy, Rex storms off and bumps into Reginald  

Synopsis

‘Kathy’ is newly wed wife forced into marriage by her cheating, abusive husband Donald. She longs to escape the relationship that controls her.

One day she finally decides to free herself from the oppressive Donald and on the day of her honeymoon does the unthinkable and shoots Donald and leaves his body in the bed of their suite.

When the detective comes to talk to the witness it is discovered that Donald was abusive and cheating and that Kathy had a motive.

Technical information

Set – 1940s

Location- Hartlepool, Liam’s house (Blackhall)

Rating- 15

Sequence running time- 2-3 minutes

Props Needed

Gun

Cameras

Costumes

Kathy will be wearing a white dress and red lipstick as it is conventional of a femme fatale.

Donald will be wearing a suit and tie and be smartly dressed.

Larry will be wearing a shirt and an apron, as he is a bartender.

The detectives will all be wearing suits and fedoras.

Rex will wear a trench coat, shirt and trousers.

Locations

We would like to have a lot of shots in alleyways. We also would like to have it in a bar and in a bedroom.

Micro analysis opening of A touch of evil

A touch of evil opening scene micro analysis

Mise en scene:

The first scene we see is a man in a dark alley way and even though it lacks fog it is still in the conventional setting of an alleyway, even though the film is in black and white you can tell the lighting is dark and thus making the alleyway dark. The vehicles are typical for the type of era, long and low riding. We see many men running across the road throughout the opening sequence and the majority of them are wearing fedora hats in which fedora hats are very common and conventional in this genre of film, along with the hats they are wearing big trench coats which once again are common to see in a film noir. The couple who looks like they are to be the main characters are walking along the road and the woman is wearing a white outfit which could suggest that she is a femme fetale who are known for when they are first introduced to wear white.

Editing:

The whole opening scene is one big long sequence without cuts this continuity editing, there is a bomb in the car and the camera follows the car and the continuity shows us that the car could go off at anytime and keeps us on edge. There is cut on the couple kissing then another cut on to the car exploding and then another cut back to the couples facial expression showing their shock and surprise before they run over to see what has happened.

Camera:

A crane shot is used to follow the car from a height and to follow the car when it goes into the alleyway in which the camera could not fit and keep the continuity edit going. A long shot is used to show a man put the bomb into the car then make his escape.  A track and dolly is used to follow the couple when they make their way to wherever they are going. A medium shot is used to show both the man and womans reaction to the explosion but close enough to also show their facial expression.

Sound:

Until the man and wife talk to the man at the booth there is non diegetic jazz music in the background which is a typical convention for film noir. There is an diegetic asynchronous explosion which adds to the shock as we can not see the explosion.