Treatment

Title: "Sea Dreams"
Duration: 4-5 minutes.

Synopsis:
Imagine going through life and arriving at a bridge, and not knowing which path to take. What do you do? How do you say goodbye to the people you love the most? Do you follow your dreams or let your dreams guide you?
Main Character(s):
• Tara is an 18 year old girl who has an ambition to travel the world and is now about to fulfil that dream. She is very close to her two friends Emma and Victoria and has been in love with her boyfriend Nathan. What she doesn’t know is that Emma and Nathan have been plotting to make their affair public after she leaves. This story tests her friendships, relationships, dreams and trust.
• Victoria: She has been Tara’s friend since they were kids and Victoria has always been there to help Tara through her hard life, surviving alone with no parents to guide her. She knows about the affair and does not approve in the slightest. She is more of a background character who surveys the events. Her simple life contradicts to those of the other characters. Her journey tests the ability to move on.
• Nathan: male, early 20s, the Antagonist. He is the boyfriend of Tara and they have had a relationship with has ran its course, he is looking forward to making his affair public but at the same time has some emotional attachment to Tara and feels more of a loss than shows.
• Emma: female, early 20s, the complication. She is also a friend of Tara’s however; she has been having an affair with Nathan. Her enigma causes problems between her and Emma as well. Her journey is one of realisation.


One of the influences behind this short film was a quote by playwright Edward Bond :
“I am a pessimist by experience, but an optimist by nature, and i have no doubt that i shall go on being true to my nature. Experience is depressing, and it would be a mistake to be willing to learn from it."
Sea Dreams is about an 18 year old girl called Tara who opens the film in a soliloquy explaining her desires to travel the world. This raises several enigmas. Who is this girl? What has happened in her past? Why is she leaving? She begins reminiscing about the life she must leave behind, now that she has decided to leave her hometown with the promise of travel in her future. The film's ending will leave the audience with an optimistic view on the future, rather than the play's previous tone of pessimism.

Soundtrack/Score: Piano instrumental, cinematic book, waves crashing against cliffs and seagulls by the sea. Solemn music -but heavily paced edging upon upbeat towards the end to accompany the climax.


SFX: use of washed out colour
Inter-cutting between main characters
Fade in and fade out so scenes over-lap especially between flashbacks, presnt and when time elapses.