Pre Production - Treatment

Treatment

Representations

The film is based around a young white girl as we folow her life after an accident that leave her less abel than she was before. She is our protagonist in the film, along with her best friend who we are also introduced to in the opening sequence. The antagonist of the film is the ring elader of a bunch of girls who leaves our main character in a heart beraking position, as she and her friends jump the main character after school one day because of jealousy. This is going against the stereotypical view of young white girls as they are not seen to be violent and abusive, that is more of a boy stereotype.

Conventions

Sticking to the conventions of a British Social Realist film, my film will be based on a you, white female, from a working class background. It wills how all the hardships of working class life, and not the ' rose tinted glasses' effect that you would see in a Hollywood film, as Bristish Social REalist films aim to show the true realities of life and not a big fairytale. A hybrid element of my British social realism genre would be the gangster violence theme but with a twist as it would be girl gangs instead of typical boy gangs.

Style and Iconography

The camera work will be very natural and doncumentory like, like in Fish Tank. Also i will not use lots of fancy effects as that is not the style of a British Social Realist film, my only possibly editing effect will be fading to and form black, this will help in the verisimilitude of my film. Ensuring that the audience feel part of the film and dont just see it as a film they are watching in the cinema as i want my audience to be able to relate to the characters and ther lifestyle.

Institution

Due to my institution being a small, independant, british company my budget to spend on the film will only be little. I wont have lots of money to spend on huge marketing techniques and create lots of pretty posters, my main marketing strategiy will be Viral Marketing and Word Of Mouth.

Alos my film will probably not be released in ibg, mainstream cinemas and will mostly stick to home exhibition, ie DVD's and website veiwings.