First draft of my Treatment.

Up All Night video Treatment

Introduction

Music starts. The camera focuses on a bottle of alcohol. The camera pans out to reveal a room covered in empty bottles, uses tissues, and left over food. There is a teenage male looking through a photo album. The camera focuses on a picture with the male with a girl (His girl friend, at a party). The camera zooms towards the image, and when the image fills the screen it stars to move, and the picture starts to come to life, initially the image is broken up as if it is a series of different photographs, but then it starts to flow in to the action of the party. We see a girl take a photograph. The couple then kiss and separate in different directions.

Plot point 1

The boy friend bumps in to a slightly drunk, seductive girl who attempts to kiss him, and is being obviously flirtatious. Just as she is about to kiss him, the girlfriend comes along, and pushes the flirtatious girl out the way, and slaps the boyfriend. She loses her temper and storms out of the party, leaving the boyfriend alone.

Confrontation

Two males are playing pool. One is the boyfriend, he looks stressed due to the previous incident, and he has gone to his friend for help and advice. There is a head on shot of a pool ball coming towards the camera. Smoke then fills in front, and through the smoke the band appear. (The band has been appearing throughout the whole video, this is just a particular shot change.)

The Friend and boyfriend are now in a street, looking round corners and we see that they are following the girl friend (who is also with her friend). The boyfriend grabs the girls attention. As soon as she realises it is him, she turns away, and her friend gestures more aggressively that the boyfriend is not wanted.

Shots of the boyfriend driving in the dark. He turns up to her work, where he is ignored by the girl, and the boss of the shop grabs him, and throws him out the shop.

Plot point 2

The boy is now angry and frustrated. He is kicking the walls, and throwing objects around his room. This could allow for some interesting special effects. (When the band plays at this part, the lighting should be very red and angry).

Resolution

After his anger, the boy is desperate and needs to make it up to the girl. He picks up/ buys a very expensive object (probably jewellery). Running through wind and rain the boy turns up to the girl’s house, soaking wet. She opens the door. When he reveals the jewellery, she lets him in, they embrace and everything seems fine. The boy happily sits on the girls Bed where there is a pile of pictures... one catches his eyes, the image comes to life (like the shot earlier) The girl friend is kissing another guy, at the party, then the shot moves back to reveal the boyfriend being harassed by the flirtatious girl, then the shot moves back to the picture. The boyfriend throws the pictures off of the bed and on to the floor, and starts shouting at the girl who had been unfaithful to him the whole time.

We are now back at the room from the very beginning where the boy slams shut the photo album, and the camera leaves him sulking on his bed as the shot zooms out and darkens.