The treatment is for a short film called "Enough" that will be 3-5 minutes long. It will tell the story of 17-year-old Damari, who is antisocial and isolated due to being physically abused by his father. In the film, Damari will be beaten by his father at home but eventually escapes and tells his teacher about the abuse the next day. The film aims to shed light on the issue of child abuse and empower those affected to speak up. It will require a camera operator, lighting crew, and permission to film on location at a house and college.

1. Treatment for short film
Working title: Enough
Genre: Short film
Duration: 3 minute long (maximum 5 minutes)

2. Target Audience: My core audience is between
the ages of 15 - 30. Male and female, it has
violent scenes therefore the beginning age is
15. The audience can be of any class and
status.

3. Outline: Damari, is in college, he is very antisocial,
isolated in his own corner and doesn’t really have many
friends because he pushed them away. He also has bruises on
his body and face (Beginning). He goes home and locks himself
in his room, however someone’s starts knocking really hard
and he opens the door and his dad comes in beats him up.
There is screaming going on he is begging for him to stop. He
then pushes his dad away and manages to runaway (middle).
Next day he goes into school and finally decides to speak to
his teacher and she helps him (end).

4. Character Breakdown:
Name: Damari
Age:17
Race: Black Caribbean
Gender: Male
Profession: He is in college
Personality: He is very antisocial and doesn't have many
friends. He isolates himself as he has a violent past s his
father beats him, so he doesn't trust easily.

5. Visual Elements:
Lighting - Low Key, because it is a sad storyline and therefore
it can create the mood of sadness.
Camera Movement - High angles (make him look vulnerable) Middle
shots, close ups (to show his emotion to the audience) tracking
shot.
Editing - Slow motion
Setting - School corridor, house
Actors - Damari (main character male) teacher (female)
Costume - normal casual clothing

6. Audio Elements:
Soundtrack - fast paced (ending) slow ‘sad’ (beginning)
Effects - Door knocking, door slamming, body hitting

7. Rationale: I chose this idea because children being
violently abused by their parents happens a lot, and it's a
problem that not everyone can speak up about, because the
individuals affected are scared and fear that it will only
get worse. So I chose to do this topic because whoever sees
it and might be going through the same problem might end up
having a voice and wanting to make a choice in their life.

8. Primary and Secondary Research: According to the NSPCC 1 in
14 children are physically abused.
NSPCC - over 6000 children were identified as needing
protection from physical abuse last year.

9. Requirements and resources:
I'm gonna need a camera person and also a lighting person.
I'm going to use the harrow college cameras and also two
scenes will be shot in harrow college. We are gonna need to
record a scene in a house, we will need permission to take
the camera home and keep for a few days etc.
Constraints and contingency:
The problems we might encounter is the lighting, especially
inside the college and inside the house, it might be to dark
so we might have to use extra lights.