Week 2 Written Treatments

Beauty emotion attachment

Forbidden opportunity success

Kindness compassion happiness

Generosity assistance guidance

Curiosity adventure thrill

A pair of socks, an odd match, hopelessly in love. Forever separate, until given to someone else to be paired together.

Two characters, matched separately, find their way home to each other.

I feel that the Short Treatments carefully convey the overall message whilst allowing the audience to have some interpretation over it so that it can be more relatable to them. In my opinion, the strongest one is "Kindness, compassion, happiness" as this promotes a positive and a strong contribution towards a younger audience. The message would carry out subconsciously about doing a small act of kindness which can greatly affect someone else in a positive and "happy" way.
The weakest Short Treatment I feel is "Beauty, emotion, attachment" as this just focuses entirely on love without having much of an impact on society, it has no meaning or greater influence. It just relies on a happy "feel-good" story.
As for the Abstract Treatments, I feel the strongest one is "Two characters, matched separately, find their way home to each other" because it works hand in hand with the strongest Short Treatment as they act as two parallel lines; one carrying a message to the viewer and one carrying the story as a whole. It is generic, widely applicable and easy to elaborate upon in any scenario. For example, "Two socks, put with other socks, want to be together but they can't because they don't match, are eventually given away to a homeless person where they can finally be together even though they don't match." This idea would work perfectly as a subliminal message with a strong love story. The subliminal message being to give something makes a big difference to some people. A message would be put at the end of the film saying "Socks are the most needed but least donated article of clothing in homeless shelters" as this creates a big impact on society to get them to make a change.