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.