Treatment

Title:The Foreshadowing
Genre:
Log Line: A young teen is faced with a crucial decision that will ultimatly change his life.

A dark vast opened field, footsteps are heard in the background as well as voices. A young boy passes by running he is tired he is breathing hard and suddenly he stumbles and trips over a whole on the ground. As he falls he hits his head on a rock and passes out. Then he is drawn into a flashback, which explains why he is in that particular situation.

We learn that the boys name is Chris he is standing with a group of friends talking about how funny it would be to play a prank on this miserable kid. They all agree to invite the boy to Chris’s pool party, where they would throw the kid in the water because he can’t swim, little does the boy know that the pool party is fake because it’s all a part of the prank.

Once at the pool Chris’s friends tell the boy to come over so they can all talk. They all exchange some words, when the boy is not paying attention they all grab him and throw him in the pool. In panic the boy starts to flap his arms around, and begins to drown, Chris and his friends are all watching laughing at him until one of Chris friend notices that the boy is drowning. They all go in after him, but once they get to him it’s too late, the boy has died.

Chris and his friends take the body out of the water and argue about what they should do; Chris is faced with the hard decision of not telling anyone and burying the body. They agree not tell anyone and start to bury the boy’s body.

Once done Chris tells them all to go back to their houses and act as if nothing happened. One of Chris’s friends asks him what he is going to do. Chris tells him that he has no other option but to flee the country because he is the one that is going to get in trouble the most out of all of them.

Chris, gets supplies and leaves the country, he plans to leave to Mexico. Once crossing the U.S. and Mexican border the police are after him, and Chris is running for his own safety. Then the audience is taken back to the opening shot where Chris falls. Once on the floor Chris remembers the body of the boy in the water dead, in the background there’s voices getting closer and closer to Chris. Chris stays still in the ground unconscious were he then passes out and the screen fades to black.

Chris is then seen waking up the day of the prank in his bed, he glances over to his phone and receives a call from his friend. He answers the phone and his friends asks him if he is still up for the prank, Chris in shock drops the phone and realizes that he has just dreamt the outcome of the prank and what will happen to him. Chris sits there puzzled in his bed as the screen fades to black.

Dramatic Moment

The main character's name is Chris. He is a young teen who wants to get revenge at this guy who has been picking on other people for the past months. He plans to do that so by playing a prank on him. His prank involves Chris pushing over the guy into a pool because the guy cant swim. This plan goes teribly wrong when the guy starts drowning in the water and Chris thinks that he is just playing around, once Chris realizes that the guy is really drowing he goes in after him but it is to late. Instead of Chris doing the right thing and telling the police, he doesn't and decides to burry the body and run away to another country,Mexico. The dramatic moment in the film is when Chriss is running in the dark crossing the border into Mexico,and he hears sirens in the background. He does not know what to do, running and not paying attention he falls and passes out in his mind he is having flashbacks of the guy dead at the bottom of the pool, this flashback us distrupted by the sound of men getting closer to him until the screan fades to black. The production desing and everything else involved in the creation of this scene will reinforce the dramatic moment because it will al reflect the situation that Chris is in during the dramtic moment.

"Plot's that Kill"

For my film, the story will have a testing/punitive plot. At the start of the film, the character will be tested on whether he should choose the right or wrong decision with the challenges that stand in his way. After those decisions are taken by the main character he will have to suffer the consequences and will have to be punished for the wrong decision that he took. Thus destroying his moral conscience. Progresively the film will somewhat become a action and dramatic film, with certain scenes added to give emphasis on the those certain genre conventions. The idea i have with this film is about a teen who decides to play a prank on another kid and the prank goes teribly wrong when the kids life is at risk and he dies. The main character is now stuck with the hard decision of telling the police and getting in trouble or burrying the body and running away. The main character will have to deal with not only the things he will leave behind, but also the guilt of being responsible for the death of the poor inocent kid, and that guilt will progresively eat away his moral conscience as the film goes on.