Final Treatment

 Our Final idea that has been chosen is; “A schoolboy daydreams of being a superhero but becomes a secret agent.” This is due to various reasons, one of them being that my group and I felt that this idea explored both sides of the action/thriller genre equally. The storyline that my group and I had introduced was far more interesting as there was much more detail to the main character’s life story which would therefore enable us to keep the opening sequence itself quite simple. The conventions that this story depicts are the theme of a tragic event which occurs to the main protagonist such as his parent’s disappearance. It also shows the whole battle of good vs. evil which is common in most films of this certain genre. There’s also the whole concept of revenge residing within this storyline which generally is a convention as most action/thriller films usually portray this concept either through the antagonist or the protagonist. There is also the whole concept of a spark. A spark is generally what the main antagonist does such as murder the boy’s parents which sets off this whole trail of events .e.g. when in Kill Bill VOL.1; the wedding guests are massacred by Bill and a team of people. The opening sequence should attract a vast audience due to the suspenseful storyline which is generally what attracts people to these films. There is also a lot of sympathy for the main character due to his untimely situation.

Story

The story is of a young teenage boy, named Shamus. Shamus’ parents had disappeared when he was 12 leaving him in care for 6 years; all he remembers was the memories of watching action movies with his dad. Shamus lives his life fostered by people who are abusive and is trapped in his home, his only place of freedom is his dreams where he dreams about becoming like the action heroes he saw in the movies. At School shamus is also alone having no friends until he met a new student at his school, who directs him to find out about what had happened to his parents, where discovers a secret Journal which would change his life forever. He finds that he has a relative still alive and goes to him to seek information about his family, his relative tells him that there is a danger coming and tells him he has to train to find the truth about his parents. After he trains his relative abruptly dies without telling him about his parents, but gives him directions to a friend who works for the government and ultimately hires the child to become part of the CIA and to finally make his dream a reality. The Government hires this teen to become a secret agent attempting to solve the mysteries of his parents’ mystery only to find out that they were also working for the government and were killed by an evil organisation with a powerful boss who has ambushed them on a mission to save people from a terrorist attack, with revenge and anger on his eyes he sets out to find the man who is responsible of killing his family and end his reign of terror, His only way to avenge his parents is finally here.