Title: Myth vs. Legend
Tagline: "What will you see?"
Logline: A mysterious menace has been terrorizing South Bend for quite some time. Is it an urban myth or are there more to the stories? And is it escalating…?
Treatment: This short narrative will be told in the form of a news story/mockumentary. It is the story of a phantom creature/thing that is causing little bits of chaos all around South Bend. People have only seen glimpses, there are grainy photographs and security camera feeds that provide good, but not conclusive, evidence. We will have off-camera interviews with people that have seen it. Just imagine a “I saw bigfoot” vibe. The interviews will be done to feel “unstaged” - just an interviewer catching people out in their neighborhood. One interview will focus on the urban legend surrounding the creature. This interview will include a “re-enactment” - which will be shown as the interviewee describes the theory. There will be a shots of the filmmaker traveling to an interview location. (The cliche “camera in the backseat filming the front seat person talking about the investigation” shot. If cliches are wrong I don’t want to be right.) And of course there will be a chance to see some of the problems around town. (A destroyed flowerbed, yard decor in disarray, etc.- think Loki. Often in a spiral pattern...) This will all escalate into a heated interaction between the camera crew and a "person of interest." Some, but not all, questions will be answered.
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