Treatment

Our opening sequence is a titled sequence. There is are a couple of friends gathered in Poringland woods. This socialising time is a picnic in the frosty and -4 degree woods! It will be a picnic of unusual food. There will be few titles in this sequence and it will last for approximately two minutes. There will also be a voice over at the beginning accompanied by panning shots. The two characters are sitting on a log, chatting about their day.


The first shot is of the 2 characters talking. Their dialogue will be diegetic and included in the frame but will be quite quiet. The second shot is a pan of the two running away after they hear the gunfire, around the edge. Both of the characters will be in the frame. Non-diegetic music will be playing.

Our inspirational film is ‘The Blair Witch Project’ which shows young teenagers on an adventure and camping out in a wood. We have changed the camping for a gathering and thought this would be a good way to perceive things; the cameras at times being the characters’ eyes. The soundtrack for the film is 'XI'.

Our film starts with a gathering and then a gun shot is sounded. Both characters are screaming and running around frantically because they are panicking. The camera follows the two specific characters as they run into a deserted field. The characters pick up on the sound of heavy breathing and, as most thriller films do, there is someone following them. He is dressed in his gamekeeper coat. The guys hurry to run as far away as possible to the nearest safety.

The rest of the film would be the two characters still being friends about five years later. The guy who followed them is still stalking them and has their pictures pinned up on his wall. He strategically kills them off one by one until they are both dead, sends them notes and such through their letter boxes. And finally, at the end of the film, the guy returns to the wood.

Voice Over

This is my woods.
They’ve been mine for many years and my father’s and grandfather’s long before that.
They belong to nobody but ME.
There ain’t no one gonna set a foot in here and get away with it.
>PICNIC<
Just you watch,
I’ll make sure of it.
>BANG<

Just a rough voiceover idea.

Changes

We may change our thriller film opening shots to something different as it is freezing weather conditions and rave clothes aren't warm enough. Therefore to keep changing would take up too much time and, therefore, we would have to film over more days than usual.

We are going to have the four characters in a circle, they are smoking and playing with a dog. And one character is drawing a man hiding suspiciously in a bush. As the gunshot sounds and the characters run away, Emily throws her drawing onto the floor. The man who pulled the trigger will hide in the bush later on in the opening. He walks up to the sketch book, the camera is low down as we watch his feet as he stops at the book (worm's eye or low angle). He picks it up and we cut to the picture. He drops it onto the floor and we fade to the characters running away.