Whole Film Treatment

Treatment

Title of Film: 

Duration: 1 hour 30 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:

Teenage girl is hit by a car on the way back from a party where she has just had an argument with a group of friends and due the impact and drugs, she is sent into a coma where she dreams and hallucinates about the same man who run her over and he is trying to torture her. In each dream she is helped escape by a friend she has argued with, making up with them in the process.

Beginning

A teenage girl is at a party, arguing with her friends. She storms out in rage and starts to make her way home, when she is hit by a car. An ambulance arrives and the last thing she sees before blacking out is the friends from the party she was upset with.

Middle

The girl experiences dreams whilst unconscious where she is tormented by the man who run her over. In order to get away from him she must work with her friends to escape. In each dream she is in a different place that is significant to the relationship between the two characters where she manages to settle the differences between them.

End

The teenager wakes from her coma in a hospital to find all her friends sat by the side of her bed. She begins to tell them of the dreams she experienced and how they were all in it. In the end, they makeup.

Individuality: 

What makes our film different is the fact that it involves two worlds - real world and coma. As a result, the fact that comas do exist in real life, makes the film more realistic and therefore, scarier to the audience.
The settings we included in our film are also different to other horror films. For example, the fact that she is tortured in a garage, rather than an unrealistic setting makes the film individual and more scary. Another example of an individual setting is the authentic hospital room we filmed in, again, making the film more realistic.

What also makes our film individual is the fact that it is aimed at a mainly female audience, where as horror films are mainly associated with males, who watch them to prove their 'macho image'. Usually, girls are too scared to watch horror films and so out film is potentially risky to aim it at teenage females.
All in all, the main difference between our film and other horror movies is the physiological aspect of our storyline, which will leave the audience not knowing the difference between what is real and what is imaginary.