Treatment of my Teaser Trailer..

Treatment

1 - Core Themes:
Our core theme is to ‘Cease the day’, make the most out of the time he has left. Our idea was ‘My Sisters Keeper’ meets ‘The Bucket List’. The binary oppositions within our teaser trailer are going to be; happy/sad, health/illness. The Logline of our teaser trailer is going to be ‘Young boy who wants to achieve something before he dies.’

2 – Core Characters
The core characters of our teaser trailer are as follows:

The protagonist – The young boy (around the age of 8) who has been diagnosed with cancer at the start of the film, then goes onto achieving his dreams and goals from which he was hoping to accomplish within his life but he now only has 6 months to live.

The adversary – This is going to be the cancer. The cancer that the young boy is going to be diagnosed with is going to be cancer of the pancreas. We have chosen this type of cancer due to the survival rate of the cancer being only 10%.

3 – The Three Acts

Act 1 - The set up – Film starts off sad as he finds out he has been diagnosed with Cancer (film could start at the scene of a hospital waiting room where the doctor calls him in and reveals he has cancer)

Act 2 – The set back – He gets to for fill his dreams with his ‘Helper’ (who is his best friend) some of which include the chance to swim with dolphins, visit Disney Land Orlando, hot air balloon ride.

Act 3 – The Resolution – This is the part of the film where he has for filled his dreams and is now back in his hospital bed at home waiting to die. The ending of the film is sad but also happy as he has for filled his dreams but is now dying.

4 – Additional Characters
The additional characters within our film are as follows:

Protagonist – The young boy
Villain – The natural cause ‘Cancer’
Heroin – The prize/reward of being able to accomplish all the tasks/events that the young boy dreamed of
Father – Charity’s donating money towards the young boy in order for him to for fill he’s dreams
Helper – Family and close friends
Mentor – A close friend who helps him along the way and assures him

5 – The Setting
We are going to be having various settings for our teaser trailer due to the fact that he is going to be for filling his dreams and goals within life. Some of the settings are going to include, hospital/waiting room, we are going to be using a few green screen shots which are going to include a hot air balloon in flight and also at Disney Land Orlando we can have the boy looking at the castle/entrance.