Treatment - By Brett Cooper

Title – The Last Line

Audience – Male and female audience because it is showing the life style of a star, and the way the world media is these days from magazine dedicated to stars life’s to programs on their day to day life, both male and female will be interested in this film.

Certificate – 15

Because we want the younger audience to see what the press do to their idols and also what drugs do to a person.

Duration – 5mins

Summary – The film shows the viewer how a young Actors career is ruined by pressure from the media. After the pressure from allegations towards the young star he cracks and turns to something that will ruin his career for sure an after he becomes addicted to this type of substance to make all of his problems go away he greets the worlds press in this state. Connor then is approached by the press shouting comments about the allegations the star cracks and in an outburst of aggression he attacks one of the photographers however we all know that they have turned him to this state. This just makes matters worse and gives the media more fuel to print stories about him. This turns out to be the final straw in the young man’s life he decides that this is enough for him and he has a drug overdose and kills himself behind the doors of his home. The ending to the film is a black out and the sound of a ambulance and then a radio broadcast putting the news out to the world that Connor has died.

Story Line:

Title Sequence

Here we see lots of shots of newspapers being put on a door step about a young man’s rise to fame in the Film industry, but over time and the more and more news papers that are placed on the step the headlines turn from good to bad the young 18 year old has now been accused of Drug Dealing but because of this it now means he has more to face than a full cinema.

The second scene shows the young actor Connor arriving back at his mansion where the worlds press are waiting for him to question him over these allegations for yet another day. However shocked at the amount and way that the press form a mob around him Connor realises how this is getting bigger by the day, so fighting his way through the press to get to his door the actor is been shouted at by the press for just some sign for them to whether they can take this any further.

We now see the actor’s house while he is on the phone to his manager to see where all of this is going to stop. Connor pleads his manager to help after he cannot cope much longer with this type of criticism and doesn’t like this kind of media attention at such a young age. Over the phone we can tell that the manager is not buying any of his talk from the bluntness of the convocation and on the spots decides to walk away from Connor leaving him alone. Storming straight out of the door and into the car and being chased by the mob the young actor heads off to get something he believes can take all of this away.

Arriving in a quiet and dark alley Connor purchases some drugs from a unknown dealer who is keen to get away from the star as the press are hot on his tail and he does not want his ID revealing.

Again arriving home with slightly less photographers as most of them have gone home ready for tomorrow’s story. After getting into the house Connor starts to take the drugs and the last we see of him is sleeping over the top of the mess he has left from taking the drugs.

The next day he wakes up again to take more of what we expect to be crack cocaine. But this time makes matters really worse for him by going to get in his car in this sate with all the press back on shift to see how he looks this morning. But in a state of no control all the shouting and commotion gets too much and he hits out on one of the photographer adding petrol to the fire that is already lit. He stumbles back into the house leaving the door open and a shot inside we can see him taking mass amounts of the drug and also here the press talking about his outburst of aggression to the photographers. Then the young man drop to the floor unconscious with a loud bang. Outside the press here and run inside because instinct tells them that something isn’t quite right.

As they run into the house we see a blur image of a photographer over the top of us which we are clearly looking through Connors eyes and then a black out and just the sound of a ambulance and then a voice what we believe is a news reader reveals the news that Connor died this morning of a what is believed to be a drug overdose.

This marks the end of the film showing the ending titles.