P6 - Treatment (Draft 1)

Treatment

Working Title of Film: Jack

Tagline of the film: Are you sure you want to wake him up?

Production Name: rheum

Medium: Audio – Visual

Duration: 5 minutes

Certification: 12A

Target Audience: Teens, young adults,

Synopsis:

·      Start – The film starts off with two people throwing a jack in the box off a bridge saying to never go near it again. It lands, and the next days a group of teenage boys goes near it and play with it not knowing the consequences.

·      Middle - The boy who turned the handle to make the jack in the box appear is on his way home when weird things starts to happen to him. In fear, he calls his sister to walk home with him but even whilst with her bad things happen to him. The ghost haunting him tries to kill him and then he realizes the box is still with him

·      End - He then throws the box as far as he can to stop all this happening to him. After he realizes it was the jack in the box that did this all to him, he hides it in a place nobody can find it. But the next week, two people go exploring in the woods and find it, not knowing the exact same thing will happen to them.

Main characters –

·      Main character: teenage boy, aged 17-18

·      Main character’s friends: teenagers, similar age

·      People in the beginning: teenagers: aged 16+

·      School girl (sister): Aged 14

·      Ghost: (in costume) aged ____

·      People picking up box at end: aged ____

Key scenes (explain through technical codes)

·      (Scene 1) The scene opens up to a handheld camera shot of two girls running towards a dead end. As they are running, the camera falls as one of the girl trips and lands on the ground. The camera stays stationary as she lay on the ground but the other girl tells her to quickly get up so when she stands she begins to run and the camera follows quickly after them. 

·      (Scene ¾) A bird eye view wide shot of the boys coming into the park all talking and playing with each other. Whilst talking to each other the camera angles and shots will move from different places. One mid shot may be seen from inside the bushes whereas other close up shots may be displaying some of the characters faces. When they spot the jack in the box there will be a deep focus, with the boys’ legs in the background. A non diegetic voice will be heard which says “look at that” and soon after one of the boys will come to pick it up. The zoom will then shift and focus on the boy as opposed to the jack in the box. When the boy picks it up, the mid shots and two shots used will mirror the way a person is ‘spying’ on you, giving the audience the ideology that someone is watching them.

·      (Scene 5) When the boy picks up his sister from school we see a long shot of them walking on a road. As they walk, he begins to see flashes of a black figure that follows him. We see close up images of this figure but not being able to tell what it is. He panics and starts to get worried. He isn’t aware of what is happening to him because he sees this figure that no one else sees. We see his emotions through a series of extreme close ups. However, his younger sister is walking ahead of him and when she turns back to him, she sees him freaking out so she questions him.