Initial Treatment

In my film opening you will see a young man walking down a busy street with his hands in his pockets, he is alone and wearing black jogging bottoms and a brown jacket with a high collar he starts walking far away so we used a long shot as he walked toward the camera. Next shot we see this man from across the street while cars are going past the titles are shown on the black tarmac of the road. At one point while the camera is panning in the second shot shot a van goes past blocking the entireity of the screen, we chose to use this as a wipe and changed the name upon the bottom titles. After the panning shot we come to a still shot of a house from across the road, our character enters from the left and walks across the drive , and glances in , at a second glance he notices something different.

Then we change the shot to behind the character as he walks up the drive. The next shot is from behind the glass on a close up on our mysterious character as he peers in , we then zoomed out to reaveal he spies sets of keys on a ledge jsut above a radiator , he glares at the keys. The next shot is from behind the man, he now picks up a bamboo cane and thrusts it through the letter box. Next there is a close up on the inside of the house of the bamboo stick coming through the letterbox. Next shot is a futher zoomed out shot and we see the stick edging closer to the keys placed upon the ledge. Next is a shot of the key ring with keys on, being hooked and slowly being pulled back towards the letter box. Then there is a fading transition where we see only the bottom half of a character from inside the house coming down stairs in a grey dressing gown. It then cuts to the man with the keys out side trying to unlock the door and get in. It zooms to a close up of the key ring and the key being inserted and attemted to being turned. Next it cuts to a view from inside the door of the man attempting to open the door and failing. We then see the man in the dressing gown's hand opening the door, this shot is zoomed in on the hand and the doorknob. It then cuts to the outside of the door with a shot from behind the man who was trying to brake in. The camera pans up from the man in the dressing gown's feet to his puzzled face. We then have a shot of the man who was trying to brake in, on his face where it then pans across to the wall and zooms in, focusing on a brick where the titles then appear.

The entire sequence is about a opportunist theif trying to brake into a house by stealing keys through the letterbox, this noise from the letter box then alerts the home owner who comes downstairs as the man trying to break in is struggling to unlock the door with the wrong key. The home owner the opens the door and looks quizically at the man trying to break in. While the would be theif is startled and surprised, it then pans away to the title of the film on a blank background of a wall, signifying a dead end.