Treatment 1:
In the film we intend to have a thrilling story line, filled with action and physiological goings on that will incise our audience and leave them hooked. We intend to do this by using different shots, props and music. Although we won't be having any explosions, we will have various other things that will make viewers excited and drawn in. We will have various props like the corpse of a cat, police cars at the end of the film with flashing sirens and lights, also we will have props like knives and gruesome scenes where blood and gore is involved, however only minimum as it is a thriller and not a horror film.
Title: Don't look behind you
Duration: Our target audience is both genders aged from 15-45 years old. We think the young cast will attract the teenage audience and the actual storyline and plot will attrcat the older generation, who enjoys physiological thrillers.
Summary of the film:
Beth Williams is a 17 year old popular college student.
She lives at home with her parents. Beth's parents have gone to London
for the week, for her mothers birthday, but Beth been a typical teenager
decided that she didn't want to go, and instead she would stay at home,
looking after the house and her cat Aurthur. It comes to the viewers
attention, that this popular college student has been stalked by a
strange boy that she has been through school with her called Liam
Ronson. His obsession has been growing and growing and due to his
illness of schizophrenia, Liam's mental state is worrying and Beth
could be in deep danger, by his fascination of her. When her parents go
to London, various things happen throughout the week. Beth has felt a
presence where ever she has been, whether this be shadows behind her
when she's walking to and from college. Strange noises outside her house
and weird prank calls. However things become a lot worst during the
final days of her parents stay at London. Two days before her parents
are due home, Beth starts to panic, when she goes downstairs after a
bath, to see the french doors she thought she had locked are wide open,
and the net curtains blowing out into the pitch black outdoors. She
hears a noise and shuts the doors quickly locking them behind her. She
then phones her parents, expressing her worries but after reassurance from
her father, she believes that she is been 'paranoid' and 'overacting'.
Convinced that there is nothing to worry about she goes upstairs to bed.
The following night Beth goes to bed early, excited and relived that
her parents would be home the following day. When she hears screaming
outside her heart sinks. Terrified, she doesn't move, thinking that its
in her mind over thinking things again when its not needed. Then, this
theory is dismissed when she sees a bright flash torch light shining
through her bedroom window. Bravely, she runs downstairs holding a
cricket bat that she found in her fathers wardrobe, she goes to the
french doors and see's that there isn't' anyone there. Feeling relief, she
goes back upstairs to her bedroom. Overwhelmed and exhausted she falls
asleep. Beth is awoken, by Liam hovering over her trying to suffocate
her with a plastic bag. She tries to fight him of. Beth remembers the
bat beside her and picks it up, hitting Liam around the head with it. He
falls to the ground and she runs downs stairs screaming. As she runs
downstairs, she hears a car reversing up the drive. Its her parents. She
runs to the doors crying hysterically, and as she runs outside she
see's her cat Aurthur dead on the patio. She screams and her parents run
up the drive. The police is phoned and Liam is taken to a mental
institution where he would be treated for his schizophernia. The family
are terrified by what happened but happy that Beth is alive and well.
* 12 months pass*
and
the family are happy and back to normal. They are sat at the breakfast
table when they all go silent. Liam is on the news, he has escaped
from the institution after injuring two nurses. Beths mum and dad re sure
her that she will be fine and after talking to the police, the family
are told that they are not at risk, as Liam health has deteriorated so
bad that he cannot even remember Beth. Or so they thought. Later that
night when Beth is laid in bed, and her parents sat downstairs, she
hears a cackle outside her bedroom followed by the familiar light of the
flash torch shining through her bedroom window. She screams...
Suggested elements: Our film 'Don't look behind you' is different to all the other stalking films about because it has a wider target audience than all of the other stalking based films. It has something for teens and middle age people of both genders, which will keep them both hooked. The thriller will be physiological and pacey, and very physiological yet simple enough to understand and follow. The fact that the film is a thriller and not a horror makes it more unusual to contain something like stalking. The storyline is the main thing which will stand out to the audience, the fact that it's not too gruesome means that people can enjoy the horror element it hs to it, with out witnessing too much blood and gore.
