Thursday, September 29, 2011

Run Lola Run Treatment

Pressure of time involvment - Main character has several affairs to attend to. These tasks are given to him right after he has settled a date with his lover. He must do these tasks quickly because he might not get another chance with this girl because he has dissapointed before. He is assigned two tasks but is also settling matters with a previous girlfriend that wont take a hint. She will later proove to be a powerfull tool against his primary goal.

Extreme camera motion - sudden 90 degree pans that direct the viewerd focus. Establishing shots, ECU on body parts.

Location - an office (job date interview changed), at his home his car breaks down, on the streets miscellaneous roads avoiding ex gf, the lake (romantic love scene).

Symbolic Item - a person shoving the character for dozing off into space in the middle of a walk way.

Musical Tension - ...

story line:
flashback with previous accounts with girls which involves failures
asks her on a romantic sunset date
during that same day he must accomplish two assignments that were privided to him suddenly
after completed assignments ex gf proves to be a huge nuicance
is able to escape from her
makes it on his date
the ex interrupts rudely after finding the new couple
guy looks at camera with FML face leaving the audience to ponder as to his next actions.

Main character: Logan

Treatment:

The beginning of the story starts with a sequence and montage of black and white footage showing scenes of Logan and his ex-girlfriends all ending in a dissapointing manner.
We here a repeating sentence in an echoeing manner that he mentions to all of his ex's: "don't go, I can make this better, just give it time."

Escalating noise that flashes out into white and then a first person camera shot of Logan waking up and getting out of his bed.

Camera switches to first person and eyeline match occurs with pictures of several of his ex's on his desk. Camera goes back on him and he nods his head.

A fade out transitions us to the next morning and Logan has a happier expression because he knows who he going to see that day.

By walking out of the frame a sweeping transition brings us to a hang out in Jamba Juice. Logan sits down and starts drinking his smoothie and while time passes the majority of his friends leave and he leans in to Marie and asks her: "do you want to hang out with me later tomorrow and watch the sunset?"
The camera moves in on her and she says "sure, i'd love to, but i got to go so ill see you tomorrow then?" logan than nods his head in approval.

Logan get a phone call that says his job interview was moved to tomorrow.
Logan gets a really unhappy look on his face because it was set up close to a late time.

When he arrives at the interview all he can hear is a clock rumbling. He stares around the room and is shaking his leg.

After the interview is over, he arrives home and he is walking to the front of the house when his car suddenly breaks down. Smoke is coming out of the front of the car and he exclaims "crap!"

Tight framing is focused on Logan when he is making a phone call to a mechanic.
Camera does a trucking shot of a car passing by.

In slow motion we see the driver and its his ex girlfriend.

She stops the car and parks and comes over to Logan but Logan starts running away because he knows how crazy she is.

The ex girlfiend starts running after him.

Logan loses her after a while and then ends up running into the meeting place that he set up with Marie.

Logan sees Marie and starts walkign towards her.

Marie turns her head and smiles. She stands up and starts meeting him halfway.

They join hands together, very intimate eye exchange, there about to kiss when...

The crazy ex girlfriend shows up and interrupts by saying: "Logan!"

Logan turns towards the crazy ex then we see the crazy ex with googling eyes

Logan faces directly at the camera and says:"fuck!" but with a cencorship.

1 comment:

  1. Edward. i liked how your treatment had a good storyline which involved the use of time as an important factor in the treatment. Also the jokes with all the ex girlfriends were entertaining. one thing i didnt find was the underlying message init, other than that good job.

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