Our Revised Final Treatment Idea

The opening scene starts in darkness. We hear a woman’s voice saying softly, “Is there no way out of the mind?”.
We then see an ECU of a man’s bloodshot, frenzied eyes.
Then we are shown a wider shot of the entire room, revealing that this man is sitting on a single chair in the middle of a tiny, white room. He is in a coma and this room is a metaphor - he is trapped in his mind. He then hallucinates various events from the past 6 months that appear in the room with him. One hallucination is a woman sitting on a bus seat next to him, reading a poetry book. Another is the same woman sitting opposite him at a café table, eating a sandwich. Throughout these visions, the man sits completely still and does not speak; only the woman speaks. The editing between shots will be very jumpy, and continuity rules will purposely be broken to reflect the confusion in his mind. The lighting will be very bright, giving the scene a sterile look.
A title will come up at the end of the sequence saying ‘6 months earlier’, then the clip will end. The rest of the film shows the events leading up to how he got into a coma. The scenes he hallucinated in his head at the beginning happen in real life, so the audience will recognise these scenes, for example the bus seat, then when he meets her on a bus in real life they will make the connection and feel satisfied.


[Please note that this planning is no longer relevant to our final idea, only our original idea, as we changed our concept: see our change of idea post]