Treatment:
Quick, fragmented establishing shots of Norwich at night, with overpowering sounds of city life (sirens, footsteps), artificial lighting from shop lights and lamp posts, along with obscured, tilted shots (with each shot not lasting longer than 0.5-1.0 seconds). We cut to a close up of a young woman talking on the phone in Polish. Cut back to a long shot to reveal she is leaving her house, as well as a close up of her feet. Quick, panning, long shots of the woman walking through Norwich, distracted by her on-going phone call. As the shots pan off the young women, a tall man is revealed lurking in the shadows. He is following her. The young woman reaches her destination of a dark alleyway where she is greeted by an acquittance. Cut to a close up of the man. Suddenly, the man jumps out of the shadows and holds a gun to the young woman. Cut to a close up of the terrified woman. Cut to a close up of the man, a confused look on his face. A series of quick, fragmented flashbacks are then shown of two holding hands. Notice the bracelet. Flash back close ups of the young woman, smiling. The man begins to lower the gun. Cuts to a low camera angle, looking up at a glamorous woman. She uses the imperative "just do it". Bang. The gun is fired. Cuts to a slow motion shot of the young woman's hand falling to the floor. Notice the bracelet.
Treatment Influence:
Influences
Influences for our thriller include White Chapel's opening of fragmented shots, L.A. confidential's femme fatale of Lynn Bracken, and the morally ambiguous character of James Bond in Casino Royale. Within the opening, we hope to establish the male protagonist and his similarities in moral ambguity to James Bond. The panning shots are very much like those in Layer Cake, except the smooth cuts and transitions (within Layer Cake) do not connote a glamorous and sophisticated tone; for our thriller, it is much more of a dark and gritty tone.
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