Jamie Wallace - Treatment

Treatment: Journey


My ‘Journey’ idea follows a person on their journey to an event, switching from their trip to journeys of other characters they are in contact with throughout the day, ending in a loop back to the destination of the original journey and the character.
The story begins with a guy ‘getting ready’, preparing himself for the event, leaving the house to begin his journey on the bus. As he sits down on the bus next to a random woman, the camera cuts to her and the journey continues following her as she gets off the bus and goes for a coffee. The Camera then follows the waitress to a table with a bill, as 2 friends are leaving, and follows them into a shop. The friends are looking on the shelves as the camera cuts to a guy in the shop, following him as he leaves and goes back to work. As he’s entering the building the camera cuts to his colleague leaving; and heads towards the train station. In a rush they bump into the next person which the journey continues to them going back home, as they look out of the window it continues with someone walking past on the phone, quickly cutting to the person they’re on the phone to. They’re walking towards the bus stop, in which the initial character then gets off at, and the camera follows him on his last bit of journey to the event, which will be the final scene and the end of his journey. The film creates a loop of different people linked together in society and showing everyone else of their different journeys at the same time to show everyone is always on the move, making different journeys, big or small, for different reasons.
The Style of the film will be very fast paced and quickly edited using dissolves and fades as transactions between the scenes. A lot of panning will be used in the shots, as well as close ups of facial expressions; and feet walking to represent moving throughout the journey. My project idea shows that people are always on the move and that people can be linked together in society without knowing. The over all feel of the video is very positive and colourful with a fast beat in the background and dialogue used where needed to add more interest, and to grab the audience’s attention.
There isn’t really a perceived audience for the film; the characters will vary from different ages, gender, ethnicity and social group, to represent the difference in people in today’s society and to show equality. The fast pace of the piece and quick editing could be used well in a music video with lyrics in relation to a ‘journey’ which would attract the audience more, rather than a single journey which wouldn’t have the same effect.