LO3: Treatment

Extremely Dangerous

Title: Extremely Dangerous

Genre:  Short Film, Mock-documentary 

Duration: 15 minutes, this gives us time to showcase the 4 main characters, Phil, Graham, Dan and Neil with there comedic individual title sequences to introduce there names. this will take approx 3 minutes. the remaining 12 minutes will be filled with comedic sketches, conflict, a resolution and a concluding outtro  

Target audience: Our film takes heavy inspiration from the mockumentary, 'Spinal tap'; due to sharing the same dry humour and comedy I would say or target audience was 18- 26 years of age.

Outline:

To shoot our short film it will be all hand held this is inspired by shows such as People Just Do Nothing and The office.

Character Breakdown:

• Neil- Priest by day rocker by night .  Middle ground  slightly oblivious however not on Phil's level of stupidity. Follows grahams lead but is aware that they aren't making it in the industry. A reality Graham has not yet excepted.
• Graham- is the lead of the band and takes it the most serious. believes they still have time to be the next best thing. His daughter Daniel is roped into the band however Graham likes the idea of having a son this is where Dan comes into the cast.
• Phil- Every mockumentary needs the mentally challenged comedic backbone, this is Phil. 
• Dan- Is Graham's daughter posed as a son. Questionably the most talented however has more interest in hip hop and not rock.

Camera Settings:

To shoot the film we will be using two 4k Sony cameras, cameras A and B. Both cameras on the day will have the same settings in terms of shutter speed and exposure. This will make for consistent quality between camera cuts and make it easier in post to colour grade. Camera 'A' will be on a hand held rig hooked up to the boom mic. This will allow for more mobile audio whilst camera 'B' is mounted to the tripod.  This camera will capture sections like the talking head interviews and establishing shots.  Framing the talking head interviews will be medium close ups and for the group shots they will be long shots since we want to represent the characters through there costume design.

Lighting:

For the group shots of the band 3 point lighting will be most effective.  Soft boxes and spot lighting will work best for this since there will be instruments like the drum kit we can hide the fill light behind this. The stage scene will have spot lights. So the backdrop does not have harsh shadows we can add a fill light also.