Treatment

This is called the film treatment. It should be in the present tense, and describe in detail what happens, what the audience will see and hear in your film opening.


 Cut from above, looking at a book slightly off centre in the frame. The book is on a desk, and there is also various art supplies (paints, brushes, paper etc) and a mug of coffee in the upper left corner of the frame. The song playing (yet to be chosen) continues throughout the opening. It will change volume when the narrator starts speaking but I am unsure if it will change with the pages yet. Anyway, The camera slowly zooms in towards the black sketch book. It has worn edges and has been somewhat customised with doodles/stickers on the cover. It zooms in on the most important sticker, a "my name is" sticker with the main characters name on it. That name has also yet to be chosen. The book fades away and the title page appears over it. The narrator reads the title and turns the page. The next page has the credits on it. The actors names will be made up most likely as I won't have many actual people in it if possible. The narrator turns the page again. This double page spread is about the main character. As the camera pans over the detail images, the narrator explains them without giving too much away about the character. The narrator turns the page again but her nail polish changes in the process.  
The main character appears to walk over the next to pages, his background changing from a blank page to layers of buildings because the next double page spread is about the settings in the movie, as he is walking, the character tracks him. The narrator will repeat the explaining thing like for the other pages. All the shots are from above (bird's eye shots).
As the main character disappears into the next page, the narrator turns the page and her nailpolish/ rings change again. The drink in the top left corner also changes to a different type of tea/coffee and the amount of it being drunk is different too. 
This narration process repeats with slight variations for all the pages. The camera will stay b.e.v, occasionally zooming in on the images.  Then there is another page about the main character, this one is more focused on his failing art career. There will be a black page with an eviction notice in the middle on the next page. He crashes on his friends couch. After this the pages will be covered with lotto tickets all saying "try again' and then the camera will zoom in on one that says 'congratulations you have won".  The next page will be the main character celebrating his win, so the page will be decorated with balloons and stuff. 
He wants to get a new apartment or go traveling.  This is shown by house and travel flyers.
He decides to go traveling and find his muse so he can be awesome at art again. 
The final page is a large photo of him facing the airport. This photo zooms in and the photo becomes an actual footage from the point of view of Peter, walking into the airport.