Documentary Treatment

Synopsis: the documentary will be surround ‘café racer’ in Beijing and London.

Story structure:

Past:

Ace café shop in the North West London. The owner of Ace café shop experienced social transformation. The café shop owner has great changes with the café racer. Ace café is not a café shop that is a pub actually.

The café shop is ‘café racer’ gathering place. It is a famous theme café shop in the UK. Nowadays, Ace café shop has opened six countries that include China.

Present:

China: Ace café shop, is a Chinese-English culture incubator. Most of people do not know the niche culture in China. However, people who love motorcycle and rock music must know Ace café. It is like a milestone in motorcycle culture. Many Chinese ride their vintage motorcycle gathering here. They can enjoy rock music and share refit experience. Many people like this niche culture.

Thus there are two storyline makes the film more complexity.

Main characters: an old man with his motorcycle and a young man with his motorcycle.

UK: An old man talk about what is café racer. He enjoy refit his small displacement motorcycle and he like mechanical, hate electronical. When he was young, he like riding on the street that he define café racer. But now he has redefined what is café racer. His life already connects with Ace café and café racer.

China: A young man who was an overseas student. When he studied in the London, Ace café left him a deep impression. He keens on study the motorcycle and he refits his motorcycle to style of ‘café racer’.

Sharing some interesting things about café racer when he was young. I.e.: How do you know the café racer?

The two characters share their competition experience. Their family whether support their career. They live through hard times because the culture still niche today. They insist to love café racer. Why?

Style: A men’s documentary makes men like to know ‘café racer’. Making the documentary storytelling. Café racer representative rebel and challenge a sense of top speed. The documentary avoids the dry documentary style of talking head interview.

Format and other production information: the topic of documentary is café racer historical movement.