Do-Gooder Treatment

Pitch:  

1)logline: A teenaged boy seeks revelation by saving a kid from the wrath of a brutal gang. In turn, He relives the stress of a gang members family, saves a kid from torment, underhandedly brings his family back together, and erases a huge burden that he once carried.

2)genre= drama; Tone=solemn; Time period=present; Setting= An American suburb/neighborhood

3) The protagonist is a young American boy who recently lost his brother. He is compelling because his intentions are to help the people around him and falls victim to harsh things.

4)narrative: A boy sees a kid get beaten up and thinks of his past and feels sorry for the boy. Meanwhile, a family is in deep distress as a result of having one of the gang members as a part of their family. The boy develops a sense of obligation to put a stop to the gang for a burden keeps his family as well as the gang member's family in turmoil. The boy once again encounters the gang hurting a kid and saves him, but takes a bullet consequently, ending his life. Hearing this, the mother of the boy commits suicide and the gang member is arrested. The gang member's family feels the need for each other more than ever and is closely united, as the boy's family is ince again united, in a better place.

Treatment:

3. A Do-Gooder that gets rewarded for their sacrafice.

       A quiet, conservative teenaged boy is walking home from school. He encounters a commotion on the other side of the street. A gang of kids are pummeling the kid to the ground until he is no longer conscious. While this is going on the boy remembers his past in little glimpses. Then the gang disperses and runs around the corner. The boy takes a pause. He keeps walking.

      In the kitchen, the boy washes dishes while his mom is putting the condiments away. They have a very blunt and harsh conversation. She speaks of the boy’s brother and his recent death. The boy glances at a frame of his brother, smiling in a glorious background. He retires the dishes and sorrowfully leaves the room.

      We look into the life of one of the gang members. The member just departs from his gang and walks into his house. He carelessly throws his backpack on the ground and storms through the house and his mother starts yelling at him. His sister is in her bedroom doing homework, but is disrupted by the commotion of her brother. The member walks in the room and yells across the room to her mom and cussing at her under his breath. The sister shows a very depressed face.

       A couple days later, the boy and his friends are playing basketball when the boy sees the gang conversing and doing illegal things. Once again, he remembers his past, a little more clearly. He walks away from the court frustrated.

       The boy walks home and when he heads towards his room, he stops and sees his mom crying, looking at the picture of his brother. He continues to walk towards his room.

       Meanwhile, the member’s sister hears her mother on the phone with the member (her son), yelling, telling him to come home. The sister picks up the other house phone and hears her brother screaming back at her mother, calling her “worthless” among others names. She begins to cry.

       A week passes, the boy is sent to go get some milk by his mother. On his way there, he finds the gang once again. He sees them creep up on another kid. The gang starts pushing the kid around. This time, the boy walks towards the gang. The gang starts beating the kid, when all of a sudden the boy intervenes and starts defending the kid. He allows the boy to escape but himself is still victim to the gang. The member (the one we have personally met) pulls out a gun. The boy remembers fully of his past *- He once was in a gang and one day his gang approaches his brother’s friend. They punk him around and then the boys brother steps in. One of the boy’s gang members pulls out a gone and executes the two. The boy kneels over his brother’s dead body and cries-*   He pulls the trigger. The boy dies. And the gang runs away.

       The boy’s mother gets a call from the police reporting her son’s death. She puts a gun to her head and pulls the trigger. She lays on the ground, dead.

       The member’s mom gets a call from the police reporting that her son has gone to jail. She cries. The sister walks in and hugs her mother over some touching words. The mother sneaks in a smile.

      They turn on the TV and see news on the death of the boy and his mother. The reporter refers back to the boy’s brother’s death years ago. He ends his report telling the audience that the family is once again all together, in a better place

Amelie blog post

Amelie is a French production about how a girl who aims to satisfies others as opposed to herself, and in the process of doing so, she finds compassionate love. In this particular image, Amelie is an adolescent who is smiling, portraying a sense of good will; on the other hand, the use of a strong, directional light for the background light, leaving lack of illumination to expose an underlying deviousness within her character. The cinematographer chooses to abuse the use of directional lighting to create an attached shadow with fast fall-off to hint the audience of a partial cynicism in this character which is shown when Amelie sabotages the grocier with the toothpaste and the slippers. The cherries on Amelie's ear exemplifies her unorthodox vision in the world which she continuously demonstrates as she grows up in the adult world. The style of text enhances the director's development of Amelie's character which, in turn, establishes the beginning of the plot.

In this scene, Amelie gets a knock on the door from the person that she loves, but she doesn't answer it. After she gets back to what she was previously occupied with. As she does this, she thinks about the guy and possible scenarios if she let him enter. The audience see's her thoughts through the use of a PIP(Picture in picture); A visual representation of her thoughts because it is strong and clear. At the end of the PIP the man caresses the beads on the veil, making them move, and when she snaps back into reality the veil matches the movement of the veil when he touches them, showing a direct parallel action. Considering that this draws to to the climax of the plot, this expresses Amelie's overbearing love for the man, enriching the plot with overwhelming love.

    In this scene, Amelie wants to see the man she has been looking for, so she goes to the haunted house, for she hears that this was the man's job. The motive of this scene matches the cinematography. The lighting design and the actions resemble eeriness which parallels the tone of this scene as the man is somewhat obscure to the idea that his love is in front of him. The dull lighting combines with the smoke to suggest a sense of weariness in the situation between the two, clarify his confusion. Amelie is not subject to be a victim in this haunted house for her curiosity is predominant in the situation. This scene stands out from others for it's setting is quite curious for a movie revolving around the complications of love, but in turn, its unusual staging depicts the in and outs of love.