The document provides roles and a treatment for a short film involving a masked psychopath. The treatment involves: 1) Pictures of a woman being shown rapidly and ending with a camera flash revealing the pictures spread on a table and a brief shot of the psychopath's face. 2) A woman is shown strapped to a chair in a room as the camera zooms in and pans around her head. 3) A husband arrives home and finds his front door covered in words written in blood and a picture of his sleeping wife, dropping his keys in shock. 4) A slow motion shot of the panicking wife is shown with amplified heartbeat sound before cutting back to the husband running to his car.

1. Pitch- people attached
Roles:
Jordan Veness – Masked Psychopath
Luke French – Guy who gets his relative
taken
Connor Jeffery – Brother who gets taken

2. O
Treatment
The sequence opens with a picture of a woman standing outside her house.
This then matched cuts to another picture of the woman in a different location,
following this, more CU's of pictures are shown at a faster cutting rate. This
then ends with a crescendo and the flash of a camera. The flash then fades out
revealing the many pictures of the girl, spread across the table. A matched cut
is then used to show the 'psychos' face at an ECU for a brief moment.
A matched cut of a girl strapped to a chair in the middle of a room at MS. The
camera zooms into the girl whilst panning 180' around her head, showing the
dominant figure in the background.
This then cross-cuts to an establishing shot of the husband arriving home,
shallow focus is used to show blurred headlights. CU of his feet getting out the
car. Cross-cut to psycho standing behind door, Cross-cutting back to husband
walking door. The husband then goes to put keys in the lock, before realising
the door is covered in words written in blood and a picture of his wife asleep on
the door. The keys are then dropped in shock, a shot of the keys falling in ultra
slow motion is used to reinforce the husbands shock.
A motivated cut shows a slow motion shot of the woman panicking. soundtrack
goes silent and selective sound of a heart beat noise will be amplified. The shot
will then jump back to the husband, who turns around and runs to his car. On
the queue of the door closing, the screen will go blank and show the title of the
film in a suitable font.

3. Storyboard Ideas

4. Location Shots - Penshurst
Barbed wire – shows Rusty barbed wire, shows
horror and could be age and desolation
deathly
I visited the
Line of location and took
trees in a few shots of
an open where we are
field going to film. It is
shows in Penshurst, a
human village away from
activity a lot of urban life.
but no
sign of
habitatio
n
Light giving out
low source of
Shadow and night sky light
show darkness and a
sense of ‘nothing’

5. Do you think low key Do you think a colour
lighting will be effective? wash will be effective?
40
30
20 yes
10
no
0
yes no
Questionnaire Results
would slow motion help Rank the following ideas
the audience understand you think are best
the story line? associated with horror (how
18.2 many times it positioned
18
17.8
1st)
17.6 15
17.4 10
17.2
17 5
16.8 0
16.6
16.4
yes no

6. Suitable locations for a What props would you
horror movie? expect a psychopath to
use?
isolated 15
woods 10
house
5
gallows
outside 0
knife hammer axe mask gun
Do you think traditional
conventions or original ideas
are more effective?
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
original traditional

7. Which is most significant
relating to relationships?
30
According to our
25
20
results Intimacy is the
15 most related to
10 relationships
5
0
holding hands intimacy marriage
What do you think is the most
important?
People believe that
dialogue
the soundtrack is
most significant in soundtrack
film making, closely sound effects
followed by sound
effects

8. Mood Board

9. Sound
Dialogue; lack of dialogue Sound Effects; sound effects are
sometimes key in a film as it
generally used in order to gives the audience an idea of
create dramatic tension. what is happening, in order to
be effective, avoid any
Music unnecessary sounds.
Non- linear sound; distorted
sound waves which makes the Soundtrack; soundtrack in
atmosphere much more particularly a horror has a slow beat
to match with the lack of dialogue
whereas in a chase a more
Incidental Music; avoid any upbeat, fast paced music is used
incidental music in the leading with a crescendo building
background as it may detract up the tension
away from the main story line

10. O The Texas chainsaw massacre (2006) involves the use of a simple
font, making it easy for the audience to read. The font size is small and in the
corner, allowing the significant image to be the main feature. The font simply
dissolves in and out.
O
The opening sequence to Se7en (1995) shows a similar technique used but
poses a different style of font. The font has a paranormal look to it, symbolising
the genre. The two examples show a common trend of establishing close-
up’s, making the opening sequence more mysterious and interesting for the
audience.

11. Shot Ideas
An extreme close up to portray
the features and the emotions on
someones face but creating
suspense on what the character
actually looks like.
An extreme longshot
used to represent how
desolate an area is, as
seen left (The Strangers)
A mid shot allows the
audience to see the
upper body so that things
such as hand gestures
can be used

12. Difficulties
One of our main problems is the fact we are going to be filming in
low light conditions, maybe even in the dark. This means certain
aspects of the filming will be barely visible. We can over come
this by adding a light source to the scene which also enhances
the light available to the camera.
Another difficulty that we will experience is the fact the blood and
gore that we are intending to create may look unrealistic as it is
not the real thing. However the use of low key lighting will make
the visuals less visible.