Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Initial Treatment

For the opening sequence, I want the storyline to be about a young girl who is being tortured by a man with mental health problems. She is being held hostage in his house and has no way to escape. I want there to be flashbacks containing scenes of him cutting her hair whilst she is tied up, him torturing her with hot metal (brand), beating here, but all the while only showing his hands.


The story will be about a girl who has been brutally tortured at the hands of a psychopath , and is now hiding in a room at the end of the corridor. The camera will be from the mans point of view, where he can hear her breathing heavily and sobbing slightly in one of the rooms around him. The sequence will end with a flash a door slamming, and him abruptly turning around. The rest of the film will be about him trying to find her, and when he does, she ends up killing him. The girl grows into a woman and ends up in a mental asylum where the memory of him still chasing her is so real that even the audience can't tell if he's still really there or not. The film would end in her committing suicide in the same way as he would have killed her, hair cut off, scarred, terrified. 


Shadows of the man walking across the corridor can be used to create an eery effect, and as he walks, his blood stained clothes and possibly a concealed weapon could be shown, starting from his shoulders, rolling down to his shoes in front of the door. The flashbacks will be in black and white to show what is present and what is past tense, and the titles will be flashed on screen along with the flashbacks. Slow motion can be used when he is turning around using an arc shot.

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