New Drama Project

We have recently started working on our third task: a 5 minute drama film. We used the film treatments we had all previously written as a starting point for our ideas; mine being selected to act as the basis for the project. The story of the original treatment concerned a man (Luke) in his early 20s that had been seeing a psychiatrist for the past 15 years or so. He had recently reached a breakthrough; the film chronicling moments of his life from his childhood to present day via a series of flashbacks. However, in hindsight, I realised that this idea would be very difficult to effectively execute in just 5 minutes. Thankfully, as is the nature of film treatments, the idea is open to interpretation and alteration. My original treatment was used as a basis for this project; although it has been subject to many necessary alterations. Some of our ideas can be seen in the image above.

The image mostly provides some notes of our ideas as, at this point, we haven't especially finalised on a particular idea. However, there are some concepts that we have mostly decided on. For example, we have decided that rather than Luke being treated for 15 or so years in a more general sense, he will instead be suffering from a mental condition that causes hallucinations and misconceptions of reality. In addition to this, Luke could act as an unreliable narrator for the film. He will give descriptions of the film's events that, due to his unstable psychology, are inaccurate. We may juxtapose his narration with the true events in order to clarify his unreliablity as a narrator, as well as his deluded perception of reality. In terms of Luke's hallucinations, we may also make use of unusual lighting and camera movement in order to create a tone that is easliy distinguishable from the other parts of the film. By doing so, we will be able to create what seems like an 'alternate reality': the reality that Luke perceives to be real; one that we will likely juxtapose with the true reality in order to clarify his psychological instablity.