Treatment

Treatment The beginning of the screenplay starts of with a wide angle shot of Michael’s mother, Jane, calling up the stairs with a megaphone. A subtitle tells us that this is ‘Chapter 1’ of the film. I got the idea to include a megaphone in my screenplay... More

Treatment The beginning of the screenplay starts of with a wide angle shot of Michael’s mother, Jane, calling up the stairs with a megaphone. A subtitle tells us that this is ‘Chapter 1’ of the film. I got the idea to include a megaphone in my screenplay from Wes Anderson’s film ‘Moonrise Kingdom’. The mother of Suzy, uses a megaphone to call her children down for dinner, and then finds out then that Suzy has run away. In my screenplay, Michael is being called down for dinner and by the the time her gets to the dinner table, his dinner is cold. The next shot shows Michael and his dinner. It is an overhead shot, which Wes Anderson uses a lot to get to know personal things about the character because it gives an insight into their perspective. The dinner will be a typical Sunday roast as this is quintessentially British. I got the idea to focus of the food from ‘Napoleon Dynamite’. The opening credits of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ include overhead views of food from the actors perspective. A coupl Less