Sarah's Treatment

I have decided to take the notion of ‘journey’ to mean the physical and emotional journey that a girl goes through during a teenage pregnancy. The film will consist of the night when the girl gets pregnant, to when she finds out, the descisions she has to make, and through stages of the pregnancy.
The project will begin with our main character, a female around the age of 18, getting ready to go out with her friends. She will be drinking, doing make up and hair. Fast cut edits and popular music may be used here, recorded to sound like it is coming from a stereo. Close up shots of her facial expressions and particular prominent actions such as the bottle of alcohol being picked up will put emphasis on these shots. These shots will only take around twenty seconds, and act as an introduction.
Next, she will leave the house, and go to a club, showing obvious signs of drunkenness. This scene will only last a few seconds, then she will leave with a man, going back to her house. This scene will end with the light being turned out in her room, making it clear to the audience what is about to happen.
The shot will then fade into her waking up and not knowing what to do. She will look panicked, the camera focussing on her facial expressions.
It will then show a text break reading “3 months later”, and open with her sat on the toilet with a positive pregnancy test, crying, and deciding whether to keep her baby. A voice over or a phone conversation could be used here.
The rest of the piece will show the girls development through her pregnancy as she gets more heavily pregnant, and how sometimes she is terrified and sometime she is excited.
It will end with a scene of her going into a hospital in labour, and then a blackout. It may be difficult otherwise to find a newborn baby.
The piece could include flashbacks and jumps in time to show how she was before, and the contrast to how she feels when pregnant. This could be made clear in the editing stages by different colour temperatures.

The mood of the piece will begin with being lively, with bright colours and music, but will then turn to more sombre, with less music, and more sound effects. A voice over could be used to show the characters feelings throughout the piece, as well as conversations with other characters and phone calls.

I believe the audience of this piece could be any age from early teens to late twenties, as it depicts an issue that they can relate with as they hear it on the news, and in the media constantly. The piece could even be used as a warning to teenagers not to get too drunk and have unprotected sex. It could be shown on television late at night, on institutions such as Channel 4, or in schools to promote safe sex.


That was my original treatment I handed in at the pitching session. The group seemed to like some of the ideas in it. I liked the idea but much preferred the idea behind Jamie's which I am very glad got chosen. It has much more potential as a piece, and hopefully will involve some interesting shots for me to try and do.