Film Treatment

Film Treatment is basically an overview of a film and complete details of it. A film treatment covers the following aspects:

1.       an outline of the story

2.       our intent

3.       the tone of the film; the look and feel;color palette etc

4.       character outline

5.       the type of editing to be used

Title: Mera Lahore

Duration:5-6 minutes

Character:

The writer

Our shot film ‘mera Lahore’ is based on Lahore and its culture portrayed by an old man. The film shows how he expressed his love for his city through writing articles and poems. Our film also aims on showing the effect dictatorial regime has on a country and its people.

The old man used to write about freedom and about love and peace. He had always opposed any sort of action that restricted this freedom. He was amongst those people who stood up against Zia-ul-Haq when he imposed marshal law due to which he got arrested. The later part of the film would show the effects this had on the writer and how it all ended up.

Opening: the film will start with an establishing shot which would basically be an introduction to Lahore. The scene would slowly and gradually turn into black and white and the screen would fade out and the title of the film would appear.

                         

Scene # 1: the first scene  also gives the introduction of the protagonist. The writer would be shown bent and working on something.

Sound: background music

Light: low key lighting, the only source of light would be the natural sunlight.

Costume: nicely dressed wearing clean white suit.

Scene # 2: the next few scenes would be the flashback scenes that would show the basic day to day activities of Lahore. Though each of these flashback would have a hidden meaning in it.

Sound: Dialogues and background music

Light: natural day light and artificial light in the night scenes.

Scene # 3: imposition of the dictatorial regime .

(this would be a clip downloaded from you tube where general Zia would be shown imposing marshal law as it would be impossible to shoot this scene in actual.)

Scene # 4: the next few scenes would be about the hardships and the torture the man had to go through and as a result of which he loses his sanity.

Light: low key lighting

Costume: dirty clothes.

The film would end at the point where the man would lose his sanity. The end would show that if somebody snatches something that is regarded as very valuable by one, then this can have very adverse effects on one’s life.

The ending titles would roll up the screen.

Both fast and slow editing would be used to achieve the desired effect. Apart from this fade in and fade out would be used frequently throughout the film.