Today in our groups we wrote the synopsis and treatment for our thriller. Once completed this will prove useful, as this contains a detailed description of the opening sequences.
Video Production Paperwork: Synopsis/Treatment
Production Group: Kane Wright, Tisya Khairuddin, Elizabeth Wood, James Lock
Production Name (Working Title): Flashback
FILM CLASSIFICATION
Our film will be certificate 15 because our selves are not 18, therefore it would not be suitable for us to watch or make it, also we believe that certificate 15’s have a wider range of audience as they can be watched by any age from 15 where as certificate18 cuts out 3 years of potential audience.
SYNOPSIS
Imagine waking up one morning experiencing flash backs of a chilling murder with no clue why. An un-familiar face from the past begins to haunt shelly, leading her further to investigate into an illicit death. Will she unravel the mystery of the cursed fatality?
TREATMENT
BEGINNING
At start of the film there will be a short dark shot of the upper half of a teenage girl covered in blood, the shot will be edited so that it looks slightly cloudy, the next shot is of Shelly waking up in her bed, and will be a close up on her face so the audience see’s her eye’s open and establishes that she plays a key role. It will now become apparent that the previous shot was a dream. This will be aided by the change in editing, making a clear and visible divide between Shelly’s imagination and real time footage, Shelly lays there for a moment sits up in bed. There will be an over shoulder shot. It will change to a long shot from across the room, Shelly puts on her dressing gown, walks to the bathroom and gets in the shower, the camera will watch her leave the bedroom and meet her in the bathroom before she has actually arrived, the shot will be from a low angle and will only capture her legs, there will be high angled point of view shot of Shelly’s legs in the shower, where the water will suddenly turn blood red and she has another flash back of the girl, this startles Shelly as it becomes apparent that yet again it is another figure of her imagination. She jumps out of the shower quickly and puts her dressing gown back on, her distress will be communicated further through rapid movement and cantered angles in camera work. Shelly sits down on a chair looking out of a window as she dry’s her face and hair, the shot will be bright and mid angled, filming her from behind, The next shot will be low angled pointing up the stairs as Shelly comes down them and walks to the kitchen, there will be a tracking shot of Shelly as she walks, this shot will be interrupted as the camera carry’s on moving and the same pace but acts as if it were distracted by pictures on the wall, the camera will quickly move back to its original tracking shot of Shelly until she arrives at the kitchen, the camera once at the kitchen will circle slowly 360 degrees at eye level, while it does this the audience will hear a number of sounds, Shelly making a drink and the sound of the radio, there will be an extreme close up on a rack of knifes where on the voice on the radio will report the murder of a young girl where Shelly drops a cup on the floor, as is it smashes, this will be edited into slow motion, then the credits will role.
MIDDLE
She investigates further in to the murder of the girl, after researching she finds out that that the girl murdered was an ex-patient of her husband who filed a restraining order against him after she accused him of rape and attempted murder, her husband has been hypnotising her in her sleep to kill his victims.
END
Shelly goes to confront her husband about what she has found and he is waiting for her with a knife.
