Production treatment for Main Task : 'The Boxer'

The Opening of a Short Film : Title - The Boxer
Genre - Sport/Drama

Duration : 2 minutes

Audience : The intended audience is mainly males aged between 15 - 30 with some appeal to females. We have aimed at this audience because it is a boxing film and many males around this age do alot of boxing and are into the sport and they will be able to relate to it and maybe learn a few things from it. As our film involves alot of running and boxing training this will attract alot of male audience and maybe some females as these days the boxing sport is growing with alot of female fighters.

Resume : Our film is about a guy who has a dream of becoming a professional boxer and battles through different obstacles that are in his way of making his dream come to reality. The first 2 minutes of our film consist of boxing training that includes press ups, sits ups, pull ups, pad work, shadow boxing and sparring that takes place in a sports hall. And from the boxing training the film will switch to running in the streets as this is a common place for boxers to do their training. We have used a variety of camera shots for the boxing training as we want to show the intesity of the boxing, we used alot of point of view shots and close ups for the sparring in which these shots get the viewer to feel part of the film. We also used high angles shots for the sparring as this shot shows how the trainer and the boxer fight with each other, the mid shot of the pull ups signify how the boxer trains with his manager. We used a long shot for the shadow boxing as we wanted to catch the shadow of the boxer which worked well and looked good.

Suggested Elements :

Performance - The Main Character (Male Boxer) running in the streets
- The Main Character (Male Boxer) training in the gym with another character (the trainer).
Costumes - Training - both character had T-shirt and track suits
Running - the main character wore hoodie and shorts, this is common among the
boxers as this is what they would wear when they do their running.
Props - Boxing Gloves, Boxing Pads, Boxing Bracket, Crash Mats
Key Locations - Sports Hall, Running Track and Streets

Recording Days :

Production - This part of the filming which includes the boxing training in the sports hall and the running in the streets would take around 14 days. In this time we need to be able to film all the common boxing excercises such as pad work and shadow boxing and then the running in the streets will take time as the camera will need to be stable as possible as we are using a car to follow the running.
Post-production - This will include all the editing and making music for the video, the editing part will take time as our film will consist of alot flashbacks and point of view shots as these are the main shots used in boxing films and we want to show the intestity of the boxing.

Budget Estimate : 15 million