Treatment

Our story is about a young girl who is aged 18 and is going though a lot in her life, with exams; keeping up with her school life and home life. Our story is based on real life situations which most young people are faced with. The name of our single camera production is Stepping into the Light. We thought that this title would suit the story because it indicates to the viewer that this story is about coming out of your shell and standing up for what you think is the right thing to do.

Characters: 

Aisha- she is the main character (who is very perky and has a very bad attitude when it comes to her parents)

 Sidra- she is Aisha’s Mother (who is very shy and her and her husband hakim have a marriage where he calls all the shots, so this means she is easily persuaded by her husband to do what he thinks is right for his daughter, he is very controlling as a husband 

The story is set in an African household, we thought our story would be more effective if we showed our audience a different side of a typical kind of environment that would be normal advertised to the general public and around globally. So this single camera production will be based on perceiving a different type of view on a stereotypical kind of story that our audience would expect, this will make them more eager to watch our short single camera production. Our single camera production has a bit of a twist to it, we tried to come up with a conclusion to our story and we thought the best way to do that would be to have a dramatic cliff hanger leaving the audience wanting to see more; so we decided as a group that we would convey a message that would really question the audience is understanding on life and how precious it is.

Our target audience is mainly aimed at teens, but anyone can watch it. We decided our main target audience would be teens because we think this type of drama would interest our target audience, which would mean that they would want to carry on watching our single camera production which would mean that we get more views and becomes more popular, the more popular our single camera production gets the more sponsors so our crew can carry on making 'Stepping Into The Light'

Overview

      A purpose or objective; to make people, and our target audience aware of the situations like the one we are illustrating, happen and need to be taken seriously

·      A target audience; our target audience would have to be girls, who are teenagers

·      Subjects; marriage, life is short, and decision-making

Our single drama called stepping into the light, the target audience of our single drama is teenagers but this storyline is mainly aimed at girls as they can relate to it.   We think that our audience will want to watch this single drama because they will relate to it; also their parents might think about the difficult situations they could put their children, this drama series was also built to make parents and careers aware of the difficult situations they could put their children in; in the near distant future.

There are 3 different types of subjects in our single drama one would be

·      Decision making

We came up with the idea with this being on of the subjects we could have used because in our storyline, the main character and the sub characters a faced with many decisions that they have to face in order to settle an agreement and for things to go back to normal.

·      Marriage

This subject links in with the main storyline, which is to do with a young girl getting forced into marriage at a very young age.

·      Life is too short

We came up with subject when we thought of having the idea of showing our intended audience how sort life can be and that we should make every second count.

Our story has todrov’s theory which tells us that in our story has an

·      Equilibrium

In our story our equilibrium would have to start off with a girl, named Aisha who lives as an only child and is living in a happy and loving environment with her family until it all goes wrong for her

·      Disruption of Equilibrium

One day she over hears her parents talking over the phone and they find out some information that could change their perspective on their daughter’s life, this leads them to make drastic measures; her parents come to the conclusion of her getting married off and staring a new life.  A letter was posted in their letterbox, which showed pictures of her; her father comes across these pictures

·      Recognition of the disruption

Then Aisha finds out that her family know about her being cyber bullied online by random people she doesn’t know, she feels ashamed, this then means that she has to figure out what she should do to convince them not to get her married off, she tries to explain to them that she wants to carry on studying and go into university and starting working.

·      Attempt to repair the damage

 She talks to her parents and then her parents decide that she has no choice when it comes to her getting married off, this leads to them getting angry and arguing and creating conflict between the family, this then leads to her running away

·      New Equilibrium

As she is running away, she tries to cross the street, then gets run over by a care. Her parents watch her get hit by the car. This leads to her dying, which creates a new equilibrium.

The conflict in our single drama would have to be the scene when she gets run over by the car, because she is not aware of her surroundings and is upset at the fact that she is being forced to do something she doesn’t want to do by her parents.

 The hook of our single drama would be the scene where the girl is arguing with her parents, which leads to them fight and create conflict between them and leads to the girl storming out of the house.

The new information the audience can take away from our single drama would have to be that

·      People should not jump to conclusions and instead to come up with different ways to look at the situation they are in.

·      Life is too short to stress over little things that bring us down, and we shouldn’t take things like family for granted.

·      Our single drama also alerts parents and other audience views that these situations do happen in real life, and we shouldn’t take theses situations lightly.

Events/locations

·      A street- where we will shoot the scene where Aisha’s body is found.

·      We will also use the same street again when the main character Aisha is about to get hit by a car

·      Our main location would be in a household which all the characters are living in

We will also be using different kinds of Props;

·      Fake blood- to emphasize the fact that the main character Aisha has been hit badly and is suffering.

In our single camera production we will also be using different kinds of camera shots, like 

• Mid-shots- of the environment the surroundings to show the targeted audience
• Long Shots- which show the characters walking, or running towards the camera or away from the camera; either way the audience knows whats happening in each shot
• Close Up's- of the characters faces, to show the expressions on their faces