Treatment

Production: The darkness

Genre: the genre of our production is supernatural horror as we preferred this
genre to a typical horror. This is a sub-genre and incorporates all the themes
within our ideas for our production.We preferred this genre as we thought it would
be visible for us to shot a successful thriller film instead of a horror. We thought it
would be more visible due to the generic codes and conventions and also pulling
of a successful horror film.
Duration: The duration of our film is two minutes as we are only filming the
opening sequence, this means that we need to have an impact from the start to
get the viewer to watch the rest of this film.
Target Audience: The target audience of our production are the ages 15-35.
This allows us to get different responses about our production as the older ages
would give us a different review than the younger ages. The reason why the
minimum age was 15 is because our sequence may contain material that could
upset a younger audience.
Outline:The main protagonist is getting ready for bed. It is a normal routine, one
she does every night. Once she finishes her bedtime routine she heads for bed.
Before she gets into bed, she turns the hallway light off. Once she does it, she
sees a silhouette of a weird figure. She is shocked but she doesnt fully believe
what she is seeing. So she turns her light switch on and off and carries seeing
the weird figure. this makes her put something on the switch e.g sellotape to hold
the switch in place. She then goes into bed and she hears something taking the
sellotape off. She then witnesses the light turn off so she goes under her blanket
because of fright. Then her bedside lamp starts flickering so she checks and
sees a ghostly face and the figure turns the light off.
Character breakdown:
Protagonist: Female, age 26 and white. At first she is portrayed as normal
person. However, once the events start to unfold, she becomes vulnerable.
Antagonist: Female, age 16 and any race. She is portrayed as weird and straight
from the onset, the audience is supposed to be scared of her.
Visual elements:
Lighting The lighting of our production should be dark as it should make the
audience feel more worried. We can achieve low key lighting as the location we
are filming at has adjustable lights.

Camera movement- The movement of the camera should be slow in the

beginning in order to show that something may be following or watching the main
protagonist. However, before the climax, the movement should be sharp as it
could show the audience that something is going to happen.
Editing same with the editing quick sharp cuts between each shot to create
tension within the scenes. Layering scenes of the top of each other and
dissolving between the two to get a flickering effect, We are able to do this by
using Final cut pro and editing software with all the latest updated software.
Setting- the setting for our production will be set in a house that the protagonist is
alone as it can easily show vulnerability.
Costume- The costume for the main protagonist is just everyday pyjamas.
However, for the antagonist, she should wear an all white big t shirt that gives her
a weird vibe.
Audio elements:
Music - we are going to have score music in the background of our production to
enhance tension and fear as its a supernatural horror film.
Rationale: The reason why we chose this concept was because the idea of a
supernatural being always scares people. The fear of the unknown is always the
main part of peoples fear and us as a group believed we could create a good
sequence based on this fear.
Constraints and contingency: Some of the problems we may encounter is that
the location we were supposed to film at did not work with the setting of the
sequence. Therefore, we will have to re-schedule for another date which means
we will have less time to film. Also people not turning up or being late could be a
big problem as it will limit us on the amount of footage we could get filmed and
also the lighting in the day as it gets dark quite quickly now the later we film the
more it could jeopardize our production with continuity errors .