Director's Treatment

Working Title of Film: Dom Carson – Secret Agent

Genre: Spy Thriller Target Audience: 15+ (Teen to adult)

Outline of Ideas: what will happen?
It will be the opening of a spy thriller. In the opening the main protagonist will be chasing a ‘bad guy’ and retrieving an important CD from him – it will end with him killing him.The credit sequence will follow directly on and show him walking away.



What are the generic features: Could be mise en scene; camerawork; narrative; editing; sound.
After analysing thriller films (particularly those of an espionage variety) we have decided to use a number of generic features – the chase itself; the costume of the protagonist (sunglasses, suit) are typical of a ‘Bond style’ hero; use of deliberately shaky camera; use of shorter scenes/quick editing

Locations: Are they accessible? Is permission needed?
The location shall be a little used side road – it is public so permission is not needed. We are aware of the safety risk of this and so we will include an extra person on our filming team to watch warn of traffic (if any).


What resources are needed? Actors? Props? Costumes etc
We will use two main actors for the opening, plus one extra for the title sequence.The props we shall need are a CD (in case) and a fake weapon (provided by a friend).Costumes shall be a suit and sunglasses for the hero, and a shirt tie and jeans for the target.


5 Key Shots and any special features:
1. Establishing shot – extreme long shot with framing
2. Reverse tracking close up of target (using a shaky camera) - showing fear
3. Over the shoulder of hero looking at target
4. Low angle point of view – target looking up at hero
5. High angle of target - showing comparitive weakness