Thursday, 12 November 2009

Final Piece Treatment

Title - Dear Auntie Babs

In our final piece, my Playhouse Productions group have decided to use this story line as we mainly aimed for the British RomCom idea:
We begin with a woman who runs a popular website called "Dear Auntie Babs". Its like an agony aunt website where people write in to get advice on love, for example how to get a partner; relationship tips; or anything about romance etc. She is a well known woman who give incredible advice to her clients that email her daily, however she cannot find love herself even though she tells her fans about a life of love and happiness with her 'husband' and huge house. Except she really lives in a flat whilst working in a cramped office. She spends all her time helping her clients find love, but has no courage or confidence to find love herself. She tries all different ways to seduce a man but always seems to fail.
Our opening piece begins with the woman called 'Jen' in her office recieving an email from one of her clients. Whilst reading then replying, her boss enters and asks about her working next week. She immediately gets into a state and imagines what she wishes she could do, for example flirt a little or even ask him out. But when back in reality she snaps out of it, panics, and gives a straight answer without no seduction. Looking back over at the advice she was going to reply to the email, she realises she needs to sort herself out, and get her love life on track as it's making her feel depressed. This will hopefully cause the audience to feel sorry for the character and make them want her to find love.
Through the film she tries various ways to get a man such as blind dates, speed dating etc but still nothing seems to work but slowly progresses when coming to the end of the film:
She starts the pack up her things from her office as her website has become very popular, so moving to her new bigger life could be a big step for Jen, even without a lover. However, before she leaves the boss from the opening scene asks her how she is feeling about going and whilst in deep conversation she picks up the courage to ask him out. This shows that she has developed throughout the film and has become a different character from the opening.

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