This document provides details for a film treatment about a psychotic killer clown. It outlines influences from other horror films, descriptions of scenes and characters, conventions to follow, settings and locations, props, costumes, cinematography, use of sound and editing, target audience, and points of identification. Key elements include scenes showing the clown attacking and killing victims in various settings, with a focus on suspense and creating an unsettling atmosphere through lighting, music, and editing techniques.

1. Treatment

2. Influences
‘It Clown’ – Because it’s a film about a scary psychotic clown and it looks quite frightening and abnormal.
‘Scream 4’ – The slasher horror, same sub-genre and same settings for most of the locations.
‘Insidious’ – The use of intimidated children/ family in fear and the house playing a key factor and a prominant
figure in the storyline.
Then when the clown arrives dark colours start to take over. In the room its virtually full dark, hardly any light
to make it mysterious and scary.
High contrast, low saturation.

3. Structure/Scenes to include
Title/Production company
CCTV of criminal punching and dragging someone behind a dumpster/corner, with voice over from news
reporter
Real clown man is attacked by killer, show on CCTV type footage.
New clown walk out of the van.
Shot of the parents opening the door to the clown
Straight to the back to start the party
Kids all crowd around the clown when he starts his “act”
She stays back away from clown while all other kids crowd around.
Little boy goes up stairs and finds a jack in the box
Starts to wind up the jack in the box
Cuts to the clown finding one of the kids and killing them
Back to the jack in the box kid
Finds the kids in sequence and kills them in the woods, park, walking to school and the party

4. Credits
Then final shot is the kid on the end of the bed with the jack in the box then the clown in the room comes into
lighting and then takes a swipe for the kid
Credits/title/release date
Generic Conventions
Antagonist (clown)
Protagonist (Jennifer)
Final Girl (Jennifer)
Scream Queen (small female girl)
Knife as murder weapon
Characters/Stereotypes
Clown killer- vicious
Small girl- vulnerable
Parents- caring, oblivious
Friends at party
News reporter

5. Settings/Locations
In a fairly modern standard house as the main scene and location. Then within the house, the huge living room
where all the children are and then the dark scary room in which it’s the child’s room with lots of toys etc.
Backgarden
News studio, park, van, party, woods, stalking location
Props/Costumes
Normal parents clothing, children in party gear and hats etc.
The whole clown’s costume, wigs, make-up.
Blood
Jack in a box
White Van
Suit for news reporter
Interactive whiteboard
Cinematography/Lighting

6. Use of Sound
Children noises, emphasised screaming.
Jack in a box theme tune playing over trailer starting at a certain point to add intensity and fear.
Editing and Effects
Fast cuts, Eerie colours, High contrast, Low saturation, Sound beds
Title screens/Typography
Creepy large fairground type font to relate to the clown. Fast title scenes.
Target Audience/Uses and Gratifications/Points of Identification
Teenagers and young adults because it’s like child hood memories having fun and then the impact of the clown,
which many people are frightened of and it plays on their own fears. There is blood and violence which is will
be a 15 certificate. Mainly males because they like action packed horror films.