Treatment

The film opens with an establishing shot of Brisbane. This will be taken from a moderate height up a building looking out over central Brisbane incorporating a view of the river and buildings. The shot will pan across to the right and will involve minimal dense sound. Small levels of sound effects imitating the beautiful sounds of life will be included eg. Bird noises to contrast to the following scene of ugliness.

Shot 2 will show the family all seated in the lounge of their motel room. The shot will have a window in the background with low amounts of obtrusive unnecessary furniture consuming the rest of the field. This will make sure that attention is directed towards the characters and not the foreground. The mother will have an angry look on her face as this shot will be seen to have presumably have been taken relatively shortly after a fight between family members. The other characters will have looks of being totally over the trip altogether and basically just wanting to go home. This could be displayed through a sigh by the character sitting directly to the mothers left.
(3) The camera will zoom into a mid shot of the mother and will be greeted with a vile upwards stare and speech directed at the cameraman.
(Shot 4) will be the first of the scenes with an opinion 1-to-1 with the camera type deal as seen in The Office. This will show the mother as aggressive to make her seem completely unreasonable. She will lean forwards into the camera so that her whole look is aggressive, not just her words. This and any similar proceeding shots of this nature will be shot with the character sitting on a basic looking chair against a white wall with no other objects in shot. Again this is so full attention is paid to the characters movements and words.
(Shot 5) The purpose of this shot is to act as the counterweight to the style of holiday that the mother is trying to enforce and will probably be acted out by my brother. This is the same styled one-to-one audience directed shot as the former.
(Shots 6-..) Tentatively this will involve a brief clip of me walking along looking important talking which will then morph into a montage of various holiday clips with me narrating not what is happening in those montaged clips, but the basis of what the film is and why it is at all. The montage will include serious looking clips of an angry mother finger pointing towards the recipient of a complete ear full and a lighter clip of an ice-cream being licked on a hot winter's day. There shots along with the music accompaniment will climax and then the title will fade in.
-Blankness-
(Shot 13ish) Dark room, brother in bed. Mum throws the door open basically forcing it off its hinges. She as she appears to be in every shot less than impressed with anything or anyone. Time is short and nothing is properly organised. The character will roll around and make some groaning sounds in dissatisfaction at having to get up. This will be in POV with him facing the door to see his mother burst in. The scene will begin as dialogue only as he hears his mother before he opens his eyes. Some attempt at funky eye opening techniques and what is shown on screen from POV will be attempted, along with fuzzyness slowly coming down in harshness.
(Shot 14) Brother enters the kitchen with Mum finding the passports. This is the only time where we see the mother with a mildly happy look on her face. Dad is just sort of standing there trying to look helpful, in a daze from being thrown into everything so soon after having gotten up.
(Shot 15) 121 shot. Mother
(Shot 16) 121 shot. Father.