2. TREATMENT
• Working title - The title is going to be “the babysitter”
• Tagline - The tagline is going to be “be careful who you babysit for”
• Length – the length of my film will be less than 10 minutes.
• Key characters – Emily, Paul, Karen, jack and Kate.
• Target audience – The main audience for this film is teenagers.
• Form and style – Handheld camera.
• Marketplace – social media
3. SYNOPSIS
• Act One – the babysitter arrives at the house and the parents go out for dinner.
• Act two – weird things start happening in the house and the babysitter spots a clown
outside.
• Act Three – the babysitter calls the parents and goes to find the kids but gets
knocked out.
Working title - The title is going to be “the babysitter” this is because the main character is going to be the babysitter but the title still doesn’t give too much away. Also I think this will intrigue teenagers as many of them will be babysitters to get extra money so they might feel that it is targeted at them.
Tagline - The tagline is going to be “be careful who you babysit for” this is because it hints that something bad will happen to the babysitter. Also I think this tagline will appeal to the target audience as many of them will be teenagers who babysit to make a bit of money.
Length – the length of my film will be less than 10 minutes as it is going to be a short film. I think it will probably be about 7-8 minutes. I want to keep my film quite short so viewers don’t lose interest and stop watching. So I’ll keep it short and have a lot going on to keep them interested and on their feet.
Key characters – The main character is the babysitter. I picked Emily as her name as she is 18 so was born in 2000 and Emily was the most common baby name in 2000. I chose the most common baby name as she is just a common girl. The dad who is called Paul, the mother is called Karen and the son and daughter who is called jack and Kate. I picked these names as I feel like they are normal common names which makes the audience think they are normal people which will make the plot twist seem even more unexpected.
Target audience – I feel as though the main audience for this film is teenagers. This is because many teenagers like horror films and like being scared. I also feel as though because the film is called the babysitter they will be able to relate to it as most teenagers have babysitted to get pocket money. I am going to reach my target audience by posting the film on YouTube as most teenagers use YouTube to watch videos. I will also promote my film on social media sites such as Facebook and twitter as most teenagers use social media sites everyday so it would be easy to reach them.
Form and style – I am going to shoot this film in the winter time. I want it to be raining and really dark outside to add to the horror suspense. I am going to record on a hand held camera but I might use a tripod in some scenes just so the camera is steady. I am going to make sure that the pans and camera movement is slow to add to the suspense and I will have slow editing as well. I am going to add in suspenseful music so I can achieve the horror genre especially at the points where I want to create tension.
Marketplace – as this film is a horror it appeals to a broad audience so therefore I think that it will do better if it was posted on YouTube instead of getting premiered at the cinema as I think that because it would be free to watch it would get more views and people would share it round. I think that there is a chance of a prequel which would focus on the family after they have kidnapped the babysitter to be a slave and I think that’d make a good crime film.
Act One – the film starts off in the children’s bedroom with them playing with the toys. It then cuts to the mother who is in the hall who yells at the dad to hurry up. There is then a ring on the door bell. The mother opens the door and the new babysitter is there. The mother invites her in and yells at the children to come downstairs. The children run downstairs and the boy is still holding his toy. The mum introduces the babysitter to the children. She then yells at the dad again to tell him to hurry up and she says “what are you doing up there?” hinting something is going on. He then comes down stairs. The parents send the children up to bed, tell the babysitter to call them if something goes wrong and then leave to go out for their meal.
Act two – it is a little bit later in the night and it is dark outside. The babysitter is sat alone in the lounge watching TV and drinking her drink and the children are upstairs sleeping. The TV channel changes but she just puts it down to the signal. She then goes to grab her drink but it has disappeared. She goes to look for it in the kitchen and the little boy is just stood in the kitchen staring at her and her drink is on the side. She thinks that he is sleep walking so she walks him back to bed. The parents’ bedroom door is slightly open and she hears someone in there so she pushes the door open slowly but there is no one in there. The babysitter then goes downstairs to watch the TV and it is on a static screen. And there is a creepy looking clown stood outside just staring at her.
Act Three – the babysitter calls the parents saying there is a clown stood in the garden staring at her. The mum says to lock all the doors and get to the children and that the parents are just on their way home. The babysitter locks all the doors then run upstairs to get the children but they aren’t in their room. She calls them and walks around the house looking for them and she hears noises coming from the basement. She goes into the basement and the children are stood in the corner looking at the wall. The boy still has his toy. The babysitter says that they got to get somewhere safe because there’s a clown outside and then she gets smacked over the head with a spade and it was the clown. The next shot is the babysitter waking up in a locked room. They kidnapped the babysitter so they could keep her as a slave.
