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 Short film planning - Step by Step 1. Treatment The opening to the film will act as a crucial introduction to our main character and a set up to the rest of the film, whilst leaving the audience interested in what is to come next. Simply referred to as Agent 58 - a Hitman, we are given a close up of a man, wearing a suit, and looking somewhat mysterious. With the use of a sound bridge from the black title screen to our Hitman, we will hear the voice coming from the burner phone he is holding of what is his boss telling him, “This is it. One last mission. No mistakes. Do what you need to do. No matter what." Next, we flip to the Hitman looking at a crime board, linking up different images that bring to the centre a blurry CCTV image of someone with a drawn question mark on it. We then flip to him practicing whipping his revolver out and shooting blanks. We get multiple different angles of this scene – angles down the barrel that zoom inwards with every click of the gun, and an ext...

  I think what really fuels my love for Nolan's 2000 masterpiece, 'Memento', is the psychological battle that our main character, Leonard, is suffering from, and how this shapes the film both structurally and aesthetically. Of course, Leanord is an unreliable narrator; whilst we learn that he has anterograde amnesia, the most crucial revelation is that he actively chooses to forget his past and the truth. Moreover, making definite decisions about who he is as a character is slightly oversimplistic - rather, we can learn around him through gaps, contradictions, and other characters' accounts.  Leonard Shelby  Almost all of what we see of Leonard's life is focused on his determination to get revenge on what he believes is the murderer of his wife. However, certain aspects provide insight to his true character, such as his Jaguar - clearly a slick, expensive car. It doesn't seem to fit with his claim to being an insurance inspector, yet he doesn't question it h...