A Treatment for a viral film

Foundation Degree Media (Moving Image)                                                             Chris B Bird

A Treatment for a viral film

“Special FX Leak”

“Ok who left the FX cupboard open? All the traps are empty; there’ll be mayhem in the College!”

Plot:

At the end of the media room there is a cupboard where all the special FX are stored, these are digital FX, but they have a physical presence, although not harmful the need to be kept in this secure environment.

On returning to the classroom after a break we find our students in a state of panic as they have discovered the cupboard open and some of the FX traps empty! The race is on to locate the missing FX and return them to the traps, then back into the cupboard.

As the students search the college they encounter the FX causing mayhem, not in a dangerous way though, but more of a slapstick comedic way; laser beams “buzzing” the heads of students in the hallways, or snowing in the radio studio.

After a while all the FX have been coaxed back into their traps, then locked securely away back in the cupboard, all is well again.

Some of the FX on the loose could be:

·         Laser beams

·         Fire balls

·         Lightning

·         Snow

·         Hail

Duration:

Two to four minutes long.

Platform:

.avi or .mov, to upload to YouTube/Facebook.

Equipment:

Filmed in full HD.

Edited with Final Cut Pro/Premier Pro.

Special FX achieved with Adobe After Effects.

3D modelling achieved with Cinema 4D.