PLANNING: PROP LIST

PLANNING: PROP LIST

Props I need to use:

- Blacked out Pistol.
- Police / detective badge.
- Shades
- Black car / moped.

Outfits / costumes:

-Black suits (grey acceptable)
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PLANNING: TREATMENT DRAFT

FINAL VERSION OF TREATMENT

- TITLE:  The HK Papers

- We reviewed our treatment as we wanted to make our subject matter more dramatic and topical. Newspapers are currently full of the unfolding Coronavirus drama which has offered us a rich source of material. 

- Our cast has now grown and will be bringing in footage taken overseas, but despite the more ambitious scope, we believe we have an achievable and much more visually rich text.

FIRST VERSION OF TREATMENT

• Title:  DIA (Death in Action)
• Logline:         A powerful one or two-sentence statement of the idea being proposed (about 25 words).
• Synopsis: The agent is a UK MI5 personnel who has died in action and the film opens with the last person standing near the graveyard paying last respects. A movement behind a tree  suggests that someone is watching him. As he peers closely, they disappear. back at the office, the death certificate and post mortem details don't add up.
  when he phones to ask about the autopsy, there are clearly discrepancies in the reports.
  The rookie has to investigate his death and in the process he discovers...?
  Cross cutting at the end to old times with him like laughing with his buddy and he asks whats on your mind for him to respond oh its just something at the office and flashes back so he puts the clues together.
• Characters:  
• Rookie Agent: Agent who is required to uncover secrets relative to an agents death.
• Autopsy Scientist: Scientist who explains that there is no longer access to the body. 
• MI5 Executive: Gives brief of mission to be completed.
• The Agent: On hiding throughout the whole movie. Using death as an escape from the role.

PLANNING: THE TOP LINE AND BIG QUESTION

RESEARCH:

I have watched a short BBC Documentary about how Frank Ash explained that with every production, a 'Top Line and Big Question'. Frank Ash is a creative consultant at the BBC Academy.  He explained that you should work out what your target audience is looking for when viewing. 

The Top Line definition is: Think about your favourite book or film or any 'good story' that you have recently watched, could you sum up its narrative into 'one elegant sentence' to provide its 'toppling'. For us the top line will be one sentence which sums up the narrative and main aims that it presents.
The Big Question definition is: What was its big story, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text. For us the big question will be what the main story/ aim is of our production.

OUR PRODUCTION

The Top Line:

A virus outbreak has killed dozens in Hong Kong. Many affected have been kept in quarantine to protect others. However, an exchange student from Hong Kong called Lee has brought the virus to the UK. It is the governments job to keep the outbreak a secret before it becomes a worldwide emergency. 

Big Question:

The virus has been swept under the rug but how long can the Chinese government keep it a secret for?