TREATMENT SHEET

By Michael Rumble, Paul Scott, Jake McLeod and Aiden Bell

STORY

Enter 2012 Hartlepool, a bustling city filled with commerce and

culture, a city filled with glitz and glamour but no city is without crime

but this city is home to James White a detective working for

Hartlepool Homicide who’s business is keeping serial killers off the

streets and business is booming.

Now more than ever…

OPENING

Start-A jogger runs along a beach but notices something and then screams.

A close up of a horrible scared body laying on a beach at dawn with a low

angle showing two men's legs as they discuss how they need to get detective

James White to help them.

Middle-The opening title’s of our film show the detective James White getting

ready to go to the crime scene with the title’s of the other characters involved

in the film. Elliptical editing will be used here to cut down the process and it

would also show that the character has expertise.

OPENING 2

End-The end of our sequence would feature a tracking shot following the

main character as he walks towards the body however in the foreground there

is two other detectives interviewing a jogger who is revealed to have been the

one to find the body, the camera then moves to the main character talking to

other detectives and a shot reverse shot is used as well as an eyeline match to a

lighter with a tally chart on it which the main character will see and will allow

them to make some progress in the case.

SYNOPSIS

James White is a 32 year old veteran of the Hartlepool Homicide, he lives in a

one-room apartment after being divorced from his wife Linda who lives with his

two kids.

During his career as a forensic investigator James has seen some horrific murders,

witnessing some of the worst criminals in the history of the city but he’s also

put a large number of those criminals behind bars.

The film starts with a jogger running along a beach and then it cuts to two police

officers looking at the body and talking about phoning the police chief.

SYNOPSIS 2

After James White receives the phone call from the police chief, he then rolls

over to the other side of the bed and looks at a picture of him with a woman

and two kids he then pushes the picture down and we then see him getting out

of bed and getting changed while he is getting ready to go to work.

We then see him getting out of a car and walking towards the crime scene with

2 police officers interviewing the jogger and other police officers looking at

evidence around the crime scene. James White then walks over to another

police officer named Richard Pascal.

SYNOPSIS 3

James and Richard then discuss the crime scene and Richard then tells James

that this body has been the 4th one like this in a month but James then notices

a lighter among the sand/grass and after picking it up he then turns to Richard

and asks him if it is the fourth and then shows him the lighter which has 7

notches tallied onto the face.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Setting-2012

Location-Aidan’s house, Headland beach OR Clavering field. (Beach is

preferred but if we are unable to film due to wind then the field will suffice)

Rating-18

Run time-2:00 minutes

PROPS NEEDED

Zippo lighter

Smart shirts

Car

Photo

Casual dress

Jogger

COSTUMES

For costumes we are using smart shirts for our characters as it makes them

look professional when they are at work.

LOCATION

We are filming in a house for the scene that we need a bedroom for but the

rest of our film we are either going to use a beach or a field if the beach is too

windy and we are unable to get good sound quality.