2 Minutes Treatment

Treatment

Title of Film: 

Duration: 2 Minutes

Audience: 
15-30 
Mainly female
Those who enjoy horror films based around real life, (such as Paranormal Activity and Insidious).
Those who enjoy films which messes with their mind.

This is because the characters in our film are around this age and therefore the audience can relate to their lives, for example, attending parties and arguing with friends. This link between the audiences lives and those of the characters means the film becomes more realistic and so the horror part of it is more scary for them to watch.

Distributors:

Our film could be distributed by an independent film company, such as Maxim Films or Brain Damage Films, as these two companies focus on producing low budget horror films.

However, mainstream companies, like Momentum Pictures, have produced films in the same genre with similar story lines. One example is Insidious, which was a very popular horror film when it was released.

Storyline: The first two minutes we will film will contain the following action:

Firstly, there is a scene of the girl walking home from the party, still annoyed and distracted from the argument. A screech is heard and the audience sees her reaction before the screen goes black.
The action flashes back to the start of the argument. The tension gradually builds up between the group of girls until someone reaches the end of their tether and screams at her as she walks out of the party.
The sound of their argument is asynchronous as the girls scream in the last scene is replaced by the screech and crash of the car as it transitions into the next scene. All sound stops and the screen goes to black.
A siren can be heard as all the friends crowd around her body on the floor in a point of view shot, shouting her name. The shot cuts out and back in as if she is blinking until it totally cuts out as if she is unconscious, but the shouting of her name continuos .
The girl wakes up strapped to a chair in a dark room. She tries to pull against the restraints as she can still hear people shouting her name. The volume increases as footsteps begin to be heard. The girls thinks it is her friends coming to find her but instead a creepy looking man comes in the door holding a needle to torture her with.
As he goes to inject the shot cuts to her in the hospital, as it matches on action of the needle as a nurse just pulls away from taking some blood. As the shot pans out, all her friends are crowded around their friend who is still unconscious.
The doctor walks through the door and he is the same man as in her dream and asks her friends to leave whilst he does some checks. He draws the blind so they cannot see in and the darkness matches on action to the next scene.
The girl begins to scream due to what he injected into her and the mans facial expression is shown as the action matches back to the hospital where her body begins to shake and machines beep causing all her friends to panic.

Individuality: 
Within the first 2 minutes, the main individual themes are introduced tot he audience, such as the inclusion of a real world and coma. This is the main reason our film is different, as it emphasises the reality of our storyline in comparison to other horror films.
Also within the opening scenes, we included an authentic hospital and torture in an everyday setting. This individuality in our film,  makes it even more realistic to the audience.

The fact that our film is aimed at women makes our film different, as it is often assumed that the horror genre is mainly for males, as women are 'too scared'. This is shown in the audience by the introduction of the 3 main, female characters.

Taking editing into consideration, the fast rhythm of the scene when the car accident happens will also make our film stand out from the rest, as car accidents are something that should be feared and can lead to comas, where as ghost that are included in normal horror films are not centered around real life events.