The Treatment

Overview of final idea:
We have thought through a lot of ideas about our initial film opening, and we have had many ideas. We thought through a few themes, such as psychological horror, thriller, slasher, then eventually decided on filming the opening for a psychological horror. We decided on this because we wanted to film both a chase scene and have some creepy characters, but we didn't want gore. This ruled out the idea of slasher horror because to fit the conventions of this genre we would need gore, which we weren't prepared to include in our opening for various reasons.

The narrative structure for our opening we decided would include three creepy people with long hair dressed up as dolls, chasing after a victim at dusk in the woods. The victim would be a stereotypically young girl being chased, and there will be a dual narrative because there would be lots of flashbacks, of the victims life, to almost show their life is flashing in front of their eyes. We would film this in a variety of angles and would try and capture a tense atmosphere.

The characters will consist of three people with long hair dressed up as dolls, someone who could wear stereotypically normal clothes and look like a normal female teenager. We would give her clothes that would portray her gender as being female. We would need a couple of extra actresses and actors to act as the victims' family, so we will shoot that at someones house and just have some 'flashbacks' of someone in their happiest moments with their family. In total we will need six actors.

The settings would be in a woods somewhere- this could be in the woods near my house or the ones in new bottle, then we would have to get permission from people in order to film there. We would also need to bear in mind that some people would need to walk there as it is a place in public, and we would need to bear in mind we may need to let someone walk past and that would involve stopping filming.

The mise en scene in this opening would include the hair and makeup, and then the props used would be things such as trees so people could sit down on them, and things in the environment would be used as mise en scene. Other props used as mise en scene would be things such as a weapon that one of the intimidating characrers should use. This would help to create tension and make the main characters scarier.

The editing would be split equally between me and hannah, along with the filming. We would take it in tuns editing and filming, and we could fit it all in the couple of saturdays we are filming, and we will edit in our frees and media lessons when allowed.