Treatment

Film Title: "Rewind"
Production Company: Blank Page Productions
Length of Film: 5 Minutes
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Audience: 12 Certificate under BBFC regulations;
- Moderate language is allowed. The use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’) must be infrequent.
- Sex references should not go beyond what is suitable for young teenagers.
- Mature themes are acceptable, but their treatment must be suitable for young teenagers.
Related films: "Click", "Date Night", "50 First Dates", "Groundhog Day".
Basic Synopsis: Based on the simple idea of having a remote control which can control the world around you. At the start we meet our leading male character. A voiceover explains this is his first date with our leading female character, but that they have had the first date several times. It then explains how he got the remote. Then jump cuts back to Jack who appears very nervous as Emma opens the door and invites him in. The gives her a useless gift and after her disapproval, he rewinds and discards the gift.The film continues and Jack makes several mistakes that our audience should relate to as classic first date cliches.  Each time he uses the remote to turn back time and recover himself, the entire time the female seeming none the wiser. He drops a glass of red wine onto the carpet, and rewinds it. He also mades a sick joke about illness, and she is very offended, he rewinds. On a trip to the bathroom he spills water on himself. He reveals an embarrassing secret and in panic reaches for him remote, but it has stopped working and the battery has run out. To his surprise Emma finds him charming and relatable and the date runs smoothly. It finally appears Jack is going to spend the night with Emma. They enter the bedroom, and the door closes behind them. Then all of a sudden, the music cuts off, as it would on a vinyl player, and Jack storms out of the room buttoning up his shirt. Emma chases after him apologising. The reason he is leaving isn't explained but is implied to the audience. He says sorry and leaves. Emma looks sad, but then gets out a remote of her own and it is reveal they have both been using a remote on each other.
Suggested Elements: Non-Linear Narrative, domino effect, Symbolic code and the Levi-Strauss theory of polar opposites (Man V.s. Woman, Man V.s Technology), rewinding footage, altered speed, Syd Field's theory (3 Act Plot structure).