Final Ideas Treatment and Recce for JENNA

Jenna
(synopsis)
Jenna is basically about a girl who is constantly being bullied it follows her over a week; she ends up committing suicide because her bullies won’t leave her alone and the school haven’t done anything.
Our target audience are teenagers, a lot of teenagers get build in the uk and I think covering something like bullying will show people the effects it has on people, even leading someone to commit suicide.

Plot summary
Locations
The main location will be a school. Inside the schools corridor’s and gates etc. Some of the filming will take place outside the school, near a local shop etc. The suicide will happen in a bedroom with a school tie.
Characters
The main character is Jenna she is clearly the protagonist, Jenna is being bullied by two people they are other character but you don’t know much as them as Jenna.
Costume needs
We will probably need a few school uniforms and just some other everyday clothes; I don’t think there is anything that we would specifically need. We will dress Jenna in plain clothes where she doesn’t stand out. Showing that even if you fit in with what your wearing bullies could still pick on you.

Style notes
Camera angles
There are a few medium shots throughout the short film. We will also have a few over the headshots we will probably have to use a ladder to be higher than the main character. We will probably be using close ups of the bullies to show how mean and deviant they are. We will use low angle shots of the bullies to make them look more powerful.
Mise-en-scene
It will be set in a school so we will need typical school objects like desks, chairs, uniforms and school bags etc. I would want the school to look quite empty emphasising the loneliness Jenna is going through.
Framing
I think we should just frame it by having a black line at the top and bottom you can create this using I movie.
Sound
We will play chasing cars by snow patrol at the end, as she is committing suicide. That song will be effective as it will really set the scene and will bring the mood down. Throughout we will have depressing music. We still need to decide them.

Recce
See Separate sheet for health and safety notes.

Scripting considerations
12. Courier commercial format we be used when we write our screenplay.

Storyboard considerations
The planning for our short film has taken place from the 5th September – 5th October.
For storyboarding we will use the standard storyboard boxing.