Treatment

Btec National Diploma in Media (Film and TV)

TREATMENT (drama)

PROGRAMME TITLE: ‘What Could Have Been’

DIRECTOR/
CAMERA OPERATOR: Henry Hardwick

DURATION: 1 Minute – 1 Minute 30

FORMAT: Mini DV

AUDIO: Non - Diagetic

OUTLINE OF AUDIENCE: Anyone within the Skateboarding Industry

OUTLINE OF STORY:
The outline of the story is to show people that there could have been potential in certain things that have been skate stopped (something that has prevented a skateboarder from doing anything on that obstacle). The way i am going to try and shiw this is by showing the absence of the obstacle/spot by putting the noise of the trick that could be done on that obstacle. i will not be showing any tricks be done.

CHARACTERS:
There will be no characters yet I am still contemplating whether I should have interviews with certain skateboarders to see their opinions on security and skate stoppers.

How These Videos Would Effect The Way I Would Make My Own Videos

The videos i have watched would inspire me because of the way they used certain different ways of putting there point across to there viewers. I liked the way some of the videos had text to show there main point whilst some had people to get people to talk about the main points but made it to you to think of the meaning of the video. The main thing that i will use ideas from is music in the background to show the mood of the video because i think it helps the viewers realise whether the video at that time is positive or negative. I also think that i may take ideas from the 'Koyaaniskatsi' video in the way that the video uses fast forwarding the scene or slow motion the scene.

Narrative Structure

In this blog i am going to be explaining the way narrative and non-narrative structures determine a whole video. All of the videos we have watched so far have a beginning, middle and end with the exception of one. This exception is '1001 nights'. The reason that this has an exception is because if i changed the order the people talk in, it would not change the meaning of the video. However, if i changed the order of the people talking in the 'Telling Lies' video it would make the video not make sense and be very hard to understand. The narrative story effects the way we think of the video because if the video's beginning, middle and end was mixed up, it would make us completely not understand the video (only in certain videos). The way we expect to see a film is with a beginning, middle and end. If a clip or movie does not have a beginning, middle or an end then it may cause the video to be very hard or easy to understand. E.g. in '1001 nights' the clip does not have a beginning, middle or an end. However, it is very easy to understand what the clip is about.

Use Of Technology, Techniques and Styles

Today i am going to show you the use of technology, techniques and styles used in 'Koyaaniskatsi' and 'Girl Chewing Gum'. I think that the technique used in 'Koyaaniskatsi' is used very well due to the amount of technology they had access to in 1982. The technique i feel they were using was to show the viewers something in a very blunt way, for example, the way they put negative music behind a scene was to show that it is obviously a very negative scene. However, in 'Girl Chewing Gum' which was made in 1976 there was not alot of access to technology which made it a lot harder to understand the technique or style they were looking for.

Similarities and Differences Between Current and Past Artists

I am going to be comparing the similarities and differences between Koyaaniskatsi and Telling lies. There are many differences in the two clips due to certain things like dialogue. The dialogue in Telling Lies is all from people whilst in the Koyaaniskatsi video there is strictly no speech at all. There is also a lot of difference when it comes to background music. The background music in the Koyaaniskatsi video is consistent from what i saw and there is no gaps of no music. However, in the Telling Lies video there is no background music of any kind. One of the similarities between the two videos is that they are both diagetic and also, they are both to do with humans, e.g. the two of them are to do with where humans live and where they go etc. Another Difference is that i feel they both had a different meaning to them. I feel like Koyaaniskatsi was glamourising the earth as it was and i feel that Telling lies was to show that you could see people lying without having to see their facial expressions. I also saw that one similarity between the two was that there was both text in the videos. However, there was only one piece of text shown in the Koyaaniskatsi video which is the title whilst in the Telling lies video the whole video is showing text about what the people are saying or thinking.

Review On 'koyaaniskatsi'

The 'Koyaaniskatsi' video inmy opinion is very boring! I think that it was too much about the same thing and it was too slow or too fast to fully understand what was happening. I personally think that the music in the clips i saw went very well with the videos.

Review On 1001 Nights

The '1001 nights' video has a very distinctive style to it. The reason i feel it has a distinctive style is because it is very negative in 5 different ways about the war. The video has 5 different ladys heads where they are telling their story of what happened with them in the war. However, i i think that it was not their own story and i think that they had read it out from someone elses experience. i think this due to the fact that when they were talking they were talking about bein shot in Iraq yet all of the people were english. The only way they could have been involved with that war is if they were from Iraq or if they were American.