Treatment

Opening credits follow Sid as he walks through Barnsley with his guitar over his shoulder until they stop and he turns towards Greggs out of hunger and the Camera shows a view form the inside of Greggs focusing on his face then focusing on Sid and pans to the right to show Joseph also staring into the window.
The camera goes to the other side of the street and shows them turning out their pockets searching in desperation for money for the last sausage roll. They notice each other doing the same thing and realise its a competition for the sausage roll. They begin busking with their guitars begging for money on the streets to see who can get the sausage roll first. Whilst they are busking Sid and Joseph start playing the same song and both get money from the same people. Another person goes into the shop after walking past both of them and buys the sausage roll he then leaves and gives them both money as he walks past. They both stop playing and turn towards him as he walks past. Then look at each other and Sid says "I dont like sausage rolls anyway"

Character - Joseph

Joseph: - Played by Joseph Tomkins
Joseph is a college dropout, having failed his AS level projects his parents have given up on him and stopped his flow of income from them. He left the house with some of his main possessions such as clothing and his guitar to try and find some income.


Costume
Ginger Hair
Military Jacket
Black Jeans
Boots
Jewellery

Personality
Competitive
Short tempered
Pessimistic

Character - Sid

Sid: - played by Thomas Whitehead
Sid is a musician on the failing end of the music industry, he has just been kicked out of his band for stealing ideas for his solo project. Since he has been kicked out of his band he has lost his main source of income. In order to gain enough money to eat and survive he has been reduced to having to busk on the streets.

Costume
Brown hair
Leather Jacket
Skinny Jeans
Boots
Jewellery

Personality
Competitive
Sore Looser
Happy-go-Lucky

Group short film analysis

Mise en scene:
Because of the costumes and the location the short animation seems to be based Italy. We estimate that the film is based in the 15th century due to the costumes and the style of the instruments. The main props in this film are the instruments and the penny.

Sound:
the sound is all diegetic and there is no dialogue in the film.

Narrative:
The narrative is simple and is a competition between the two musicians for the child's penny, the plot changes when the child looses her money and begins to put on a show herself where, in an ironic twist, she earns more money than the other two musicians combined.

Cinematography:
The film uses close ups and tracking shots on the penny as well as shot reverse shot between the musicians and the little girl. It opens with a wide angle long shot of the first musician opening his act.

Titles/credits:
The titles follow the theme of the short film, they use instruments in the text and the ending titles are the only source of non-diegetic sound.

Idea 3

A man with dark hair, dark jacket, dark jeans and boots wakes up face down on the floor, the film starts with a extreme close up on the man's eye. As he slowly awakes, his eye twitches and is brought to life. He looks around and we are then shown a wide angle shot to establish the setting. It is a small dark room with one small table lamp in the centre of the room which is desperately failing at illuminating the room. The man is shown to hold his head as he stumbles and stands up. As he walks away from the light his headache begins to clear. He stares at the light, which then begins to burn on his eyes, he looks away and shields his eyes. He turns away completely and is able to compose himself after stumbling on a stool. He sits on the stool only to find he tumbles. He quickly stands and frantically looks around. The stool has gone. As he calms down slightly his attention returns to the light. It has become brighter. Whilst shielding his eyes he examines the light from his position. As he wants to see it closer he begins to walk towards it only to find the headache returns. Even worse this time. He makes it half way towards the light before he is reduced to the state of being on his knees, clutching his head. He crawls on his knees backwards and kicks the stool over which has appeared behind him. As he around and notices the stool a scrap piece of paper falls from above him and drifts in front of him. He picks it up from the floor and unravels it. It has a single line of writing on it. It says "Mnid oevr matetr"He stares at this for a second and then looks away, the camera cuts to a close up of him rubbing his eyes. The camera then cuts back as he looks at the paper again. This time it says "Mind over matter" As we are shown the paper, it brightens as the light behind him turns brighter once more. He drops the paper and stands staring straight at the light. He slowly begins walking towards the light. With determination he grimaces as he falls to his knees about halfway to the light. He makes it another quarter of the way until he is reduced to a crawl. He is shaking as he desperately makes his way towards the light. He reaches out to it as he gets close enough. He touches the light and it turns off. The shot is all in darkness. He then wakes up in his room, leant against a wall with his arm resting on a stool. (The one from the room) He stands and looks around, stretches and then is stopped dead when he sees his light turned on in the corner of the room. He rubs his eyes once more and looks back. The light is turned off. He sighs and walks out of the room. Turning the main light of the room off as he leaves. The shot is darkness and a quote is faded into the picture. Something related to the saying "Mind over matter"

Idea 2

Sid and Joseph are rival musicians in Barnsley busking for money, next to Greggs. Sid hasn't been well nourished for days and is staring with his mouth watering at a sausage roll. He turns and sees Joseph doing the same. It's the last sausage roll and neither has the money, but they both have guitars and start busking for peoples money, when they reach 30p each they begin fighting for the rest of the money through busking on both sides of a street. Sid's string snaps and Joseph starts laughing at him, neither of them have realised that another busker has appeared outside Greggs and is busking and is going into buy their sausage roll. He walks out with it and gets halfway down the street before giving them both money and walking away.

Idea 1

We follow a detective as he wakes up, we see him taking medication and complaining about a headache before is phone rings and he leaves to investigate a crime scene, saying that he knows the address. He knows the person who has died and he investigates around the house, notices there's alcohol on the table and has a flashback, remembering his hangover is because he was at the party and left early for the very reason that he had to work the next morning. The scene flashes to the night before and then comes back to real time. He starts to look at the body and establishes there was a struggle. There's blood under her nails and her hair has been pulled. He rolls back his sleeve and we see scratches on his arm from her nails and then we see the party again where he had stopped a fight between the deceased and a friend. He begins to think the friend may be guilty. She's standing outside of the house asking to be allowed in to see her friend. He interviews her and she gives a contradicting story, that she stopped him when he was fighting her. He considers the scratches on his face and considers the possibility he was wrong. He goes back to the body and then flashes back to the party, we see the scene in total with the fight where he had argued with the deceased and she had scratched him, leaving behind evidence that could insinuate him in the murder, though he believes himself to be innocent. He begins to slowly remove the rest of the skin and blood to the sample pot for his disposal when he sees himself standing over the body. asking himself what he thinks happened, does he really think he's innocent? He shouts at the illusion and it disappears to the other side of the room, is sat in a chair with a bottle of wine examining the label whilst he talks himself through what really happened. We find out his medication is to control his unstable mind and he shouldn't have been drinking as it affects his medication leading to it having the effect of amplifying his split personality disorder to the point of having entirely separate personas and memories. His personalities are leaking into each other and he is seeing what happened from his own point of view as he approaches her with a spiked glass of wine and a knife hidden under his shirt. she drinks the wine and notices something wrong with it and asks him. he then pulls the knife on her and begins to threaten her, shouting at her and we see blood splatter across the curtains to the location it is in the current scene and he knows what happened, we then see the detective being escorted away.