The Way (Treatment) - DAVID

The Way

The Way follows the story of a young 18 year old boy, growing up in a small village in south London named Sanderstead. The story begins in a graveyard where we see the boy standing, staring at a tombstone. We then find out this is his mother's tombstone and his mother died not so long ago. He then starts walking home. He enters his house, sits down and goes into a frenzy in his house. He starts smashing glasses and plates, punching through walls, breaks down in tears and finds out he is all alone. The next day, he starts going through his mother's belongings and comes across a purple/red folder. He finds a photo of him and his mother in a picture frame when he was a baby. He opens up the picture and finds out the picture is creased over. He opens the creased picture and finds a boy, similar to his age, sitting next to him. He then opens up the folder and finds different types of papers e.g. adoption papers and care-home papers, belonging to this baby. He assumes this is his brother and immediately goes out to find him. He finds out he, apparently lives very close to where he, and his mother lived. According to one of the papers in his folder, the house he lived on was Sanderstead Court Avenue. He finds the street and looks for number 63, where the boy apparently lived. He knocks on the door and comes across a distraught woman. He then starts to tell his story that he had a brother that went into care and was adopted and lived at this address. The woman then starts to cry and takes the boy inside. In the next shot, we see the same shot we had at the beginning, but instead he is looking at a different tombstone. This tombstone belonged to his adopted brother. He puts some flowers down, next to his tombstone and walks away. On the other side of this tombstone, we see his mother's tombstone.

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Title: The Way

Opening: My film starts with a young teenaged boy, aged 18 who stands at a tombstone. We see tis tombstone belonged to his mother. He puts some flowers down next to her tombstone and walks away. This scene quickly suggests that this is a drama-type film, as the film will have very dark lighting and I won't have any dialogue in my movie, which will add a sense of mystery. The only music that will playing in my film will be Zack Hemsey's 'The Way Instrumental'.

Ending: The film finishes off with the teenager looking at the same tombstone he looked at the beginning of the film then walks over to another tombstone, and finds his brother's tombstone and lies some flowers next to his grave, and walks away and looks at his mother's tombstone and lies another batch of flowers next to her tomb. He then gets up and walks away.

Single or multi-strand narrative: The story follows a young 18 year old boy who aims to find his 'supposedly' brother, similar to his age. This is a single strand narrative because it follows the story of just one boy, it doesn't follow any other characters in the movie.

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