treatment

Premise

The Main character wakes up into a dark and sinister world. He tries to escape using drugs, but he keeps getting pulled back into reality until it consumes his very being.

Synopsis

A man takes drugs to escape from reality, but never manages to detach himself completely.

Treatment

This short film is about how people try to escape from the often harsh reality surrounding them and how hard it can be to face that reality. In the story we follow an African man walking through the aftermath of a civil war. He takes drugs to get away from the situation, but he cannot fully escape.

The movie will be around 90-120 seconds long and contains both real life characters as well as animated ones. The real world will be filmed using real actors and sets, while the world shown during hallucination will be animated using 3D and 2D animation and models. The target audience is a more mature and/or film festival audience.

The main character is a guerrilla soldier who is tired and alone, he only shows happiness when he is high. He tries to stay separated from the often cruel and horrifying things happening around him, but he keeps getting dragged back into reality.

The story starts (with real life filming) with the main character waking up in a small hut made out of scrap metal and wood. He picks up his stuff and lights up a cigarette, then walks to the door. There will be a transition to an animated environment as he steps outside. The outside world is rendered in 3D with 2D elements. It will have a more radiant colorpalett to create an unreal vision of the world. We see the events of war through the eyes of the main character, flickering between hallucination and reality. In the end he is confronted by the grim reality, and is consumed by it.

The 3D animation and modelling will be done in 3D Studio Max, texturing in Autodesk Mudbox and Adobe Photoshop, Composition and effects in Adobe Premier and Adobe After Effects.

Treatment AGP1 Teeside

I am currently working on a treatment for a short movie here at teeside. I am going to put out two versions, need some feedback.

Original:

An african man gets out of bed. He lights up a spliff and inhales deeply. He walks outside of his ruined shelter. The outside world is ultra vibrant, and a soothing melody is playing in the bacground. Further up the road there are soldiers shooting people with guns fireing flowers, and on the ground lies the body of a man with a twisted smile, bleading rainbows. The man walks past these scenes, but stops as he reaches a great chasm. His lazy smile turns to a grimace as he spits out the spliff. He turns around to see the world as it truly is. a singel tear runs down his cheek before he falls into the great chasm at his back.

Revised version:

Synopsis: A man gets high to hide from the problems around him, but reality catches up with him.

Story: An African man wakes up from what sounds like raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof. He gets up and lights a splif, takes a deep breath then walk outside.

Outside the world seems vibrant and colourful. A soothing melody is playing in the background. Further up the road there is a gang of soldiers shooting people with guns firing flowers. The man walks up to the body of another man lying on the ground, a twisted smile wrapped around his face. The man continues on, but is stopped at a great chasm. His lazy smile turns to a grimace and he spits out the splif. He turns around and sees the world as it truly is, before he is plunged into the great chasm at his back.

mer animasjon

some animation

Showrell

The showreel for the teeside interview

character renders

Previs take two

Hopefully new and improved version.