Updated Treatment

Our theory is the equilibrium. The film will start of normal with the protagonist talking to his friend about what they will do when they retire. The equilibrium we decided is when the government asks the soldier to kill his friend because he has information which can cause harm to society. The hero refuses to kill his friend trying to plead to the government that his friend will stay quiet. The government kill the friend, and accuse the hero of friendly fire, while dragging his name through the dirt.

The setting is an abandoned room which is bare. This symbolises that his life is empty and that everyone has left him, and he has nothing to lose while being interrogated by the US Government. As they interogate him, they continously drop hints that they know who he is by such phrases as 'You traitor!'. The action will take place in a park, as it avoids unneccassary attention being brought on themselves as they are doing the trade. The protagonist is an MI5 agent who is ordered to murder his own friend, which the government will cover up as a 'freak accident' to save information being leaked which could harm the governments reputation. The hero says no, which results in the government turning on him and killing his friend themselves. They then pin the blame on him in order to cover their own tracks, ruining the British patriot’s reputation in the process. The adversary is the government, as they hire an assassin to execute the hero’s friend, and then detain the agent himself.


Our binary oppositions consist of good and evil, which the audience can relate to. Everyone has a problem with the government due to conspiracy theories and over the odds taxes, and throughout this film, the hero is trying to fight a conspiracy of high stakes, a person’s dignity is at stake. The audience will be on our side because subliminaly they understand the concept of what is going on. Our costumes will consist of black and white, White being good and black being evil. We have done this so that the audience can stereotype the characters while watching it and straight away decide which side they are on. Binary oppositions are important to films as there is always a conflict, they are used to distinguish characters and it is also a good structural mechanism.



The three act structure forms the setup of the film, the confrontation and the resolution. The setup of our film is Agent Raiden being told that he has to execute a person, who is unknown to himself. The confrontation within our film is when the government tell the hero (Agent Raiden) that the person he has to kill is his close friend and colleague, Agent Grey Fox This is where things take a turn for the worst in his life, but surely it can only get better. No, instead the government kill the Grey and then pin the blame on him. The government have him imprisoned and he has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Our resolution consists of Raiden proving his innocence and winning his families trust back, while avenging his friend by the real murderer being imprisoned for life.