Exercise #6: Logline and Treatment of "Winter Alley"

Leonid Afremov is a Russian-Israeli painter that frequently paints with palette oils. His works are highly colorful and expressionist. For this exercise, I chose his painting "Winter Alley" because I felt that a lot could be done with the striking colors and singular figure. Here is the logline and treatment for a potential film idea of "Winter Alley". 

Logline: A depressed man tries to ease his suffering by creating a fictional world on the alley as he walks home. 

Treatment: A nameless man is walking home in the rain, obviously upset and depressed. The man is holding an umbrella, which prevents the rain from hitting his face; but, he is still getting wet because he is unintentionally splashing in the puddles with his sneakers. He sees a group of friends playing, which only makes him more visibly sad. Then, however, the man looks to a tree on his right. He looks at it curiously, as the leaves on the tree are changing colors. There are now purple, red, and yellow leaves. The man continues to look around curiously, because everything is now seeming to grow colorful. He smiles because this new "colorful" world is a lot more happy than the previous dark colors of before. Even though the rain is continuing, the man begins to run through the alley while laughing heavily. The man continues to run until he stops at looks around. He then begins to slowly walk again, smiling and walking into the distance, the world more colorful than ever before for him.