Friday, 5 December 2014

Treaments

Treatment and log line 

Logline

'A young, innocent girl, living at home with just her mother , becomes the centre of attention to a stalker. The stalker becomes more and more obsessed with the girl until he decides to kidnap. His thoughts become more twisted as he keeps diaries of her routines, in the quest to capture her'

 

Treatment

A young girl, vulnerable and naïve, encouraged by the mind of a psychopathic stalker. Watching her every move and following her paths as she unknowingly lives her daily life with her single parent mother. Little do they know that their lives were about to change when the stalking becomes obsessive and plans began to form.
His mentally disturbed life begins to revolve around her, he begins to keep photographs and diaries of her daily routines, craving her presence and becoming determined to capture her.
All begins to become more intense as the mother grows suspicious, seeing a man present as they play in the park and take walks to school. This suspicion becomes aware to the stalker, making him become uncomfortable and identified. This causes a change in action, which speeds up his plot to take the young girl.

Conversation is made between the mother and the stalker when his curiosity about the young girl becomes unbearable. He makes himself seem ordinary as he reveals himself to the mother and daughter, asking them if they have seen his dog. He uses this as a conversation starter, but soon mentions questions about the young girl, comparing her to his 'niece' to disguise any further suspicion. The answers he received were vague, but fills the stalker in with her interests and hobbies, which he dwells on as he they give him ideas of ways to lure her into his path.

Being the 1960's, paedophilia was not recognized as an issue, therefore making his plot very easy. The stalker proceeds with his kidnapping, following the young girl and her mother as they walk home from school through the woodland. This was a restricted area which allowed him to all too easily take the child.  Once the child runs ahead, he strikes, pulling the young girl backwards as he suffocates the mother. Hopelessly the young girl cries for help while watching her mother being beaten to the ground by a stranger. Unconscious, the mother lay on the floor, giving the stalker opportunity to escape with her daughter, while she lay unaware and helpless in the middle of the wood.

The stalker takes the young girl to a small shack, which he had been creating especially for her. They remain here for weeks, whilst the mother pleads for justice in hospital. The childs photographs were posted over newspapers and on milk cartons, but nothing was reported. Until a hole the young girl had been creating in the wall becomes big enough for her to escape. She takes the only opportunity she can find to run. With just one chance she sprints for her life and finds herself in a new town, in a place she doesn't recognize.

Her father who has only ever seen his daughter through the photographs in the newspaper, spots her as she scatters around alone, confused and gagging for help. He takes her to her mother in hospital who was suffering from severe injuries, and soon passes away, leaving the young girl with only a father she barley knew. Eventually she ends up living with her father, who cares and nurtures her as her mother once did. Protected and safe, she carries on her new life as though it was her old.
 
Above I have given an example of my treatment for my Opening title sequence at AS.
 
Song by Keane - Bedshaped
A young boy, vulnerable and naïve lives his school life being threatened and intimidated by his peers. He walks home, depressed and alone, everyday reflecting on the nasty comments and jokes made about him, because of his timid and shy nature we plan to have our first shot introducing and emphasising on this aspect of our main actor. We plan to have a point of view shot of the boy looking down at his scraggy shoes as he walks home from school. This will be followed a range of different shorter shots, such as close ups of his face in his bedroom showing his depression and anxiety to live any longer. We will also show medium and long shots as he sits on the edge of his bed and runs his hands over his face and through his hair demonstrating his stress and incapability to deal with the situation in which he is facing.
We plan to have the first verse of the victim walking around alone at school, we will use medium, 3 quarter and close up shots of him as he walks. We then plan to have him looking at the happiness of the other students in school, although he is aware that they consider him to be watching them in a freaky or weird way. We will present this by having point of view shots as he looks at the other students, then with continuity we will use a close up shot as he looks away in fear. This should set the lonely atmosphere and inevitable troubles which he faces everyday at school.
As the song comes to the Bridge, 'Don't laugh at me' are the lyrics sung which we want to emphasise on, we plan to do this by having the point of view shots of the students as they give him strange looks and laugh at him as he walks alone, envious of the friends and normal lives which the other students have.
For the start of the Chorus we plan have the young boy walking home and through his back door, where we see his mum in dirty clothes smoking, without acknowledging the fact her son is a bad state. We will then show extreme close up lip syncs of certain words such as 'what do I know' and 'I know' as it almost seems as though he is talking to himself, creating a more personal feel and linking the lyrics to the video. We will locate this part in his bedroom as though he was thinking back on his day at school, realising he cannot deal with his issue any longer.
For the instrumental we plan to speed up the pace and use close up shots of the boys face crying as he wipes his face roughly. Then we will shot back to his mum, using a close up of her mouth as she smokes, showing her unawareness and inability to care for her son, this will continue to go back and forth to the son as he debates his death and the mother as she smokes irresponsibly. Leading to the last chorus where we see a close up of a chair and the boys feet as he stands on it preparing to take his own life. Then will then have a shot of his mother sitting up. Cut back to him knocking away the chair as the music fades down, this will follow a fade to black as his mum looks up rapidly and shouts his name. There will then be a series of fade to black shots where the mother runs upstairs, (Fade to black) then opens the door (fade to black) clutches his legs crying, then fades to black at the ending of the song.
 
Above is an example of my treatment which I have written for my Pop promo at A2

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