The short film will be between 5-10 minutes long and feature two male characters in their late teens who find themselves lost in a seemingly endless forest. In Act 1, the characters awake separately in the forest and begin exploring while hearing strange noises. In Act 2, they discover signs of others and have flashbacks while being tortured by their surroundings. In Act 3, the characters find each other but then hear a stalking creature, and must escape the forest before it's too late. The film will have a dystopian and thriller genre using POV cameras to involve the audience in the characters' feelings of suspense and uncertainty within the limited setting of the forest. The target audience is people of the filmmakers' age to avoid

1. Treatment 1
Tagline: You may be lost but you’re never alone.
The length of the film is going to be between 5-10 minutes long.
Characters
Character 1:
The first of the two characters in my short film is a male in their late teenage years who
medium height with brown hair, they are quite a reserved character who isn’t that open and
we don’t learn a lot about then throughout the film.
Character 2: The second character in my short film is another male character who is similarly
aged to the other male in the short film, they are a bit more of an outgoing character and
aren't as reserved as the other male character, however ultimately like the other character
we don’t find a lot out about them before the climax of the short film.
Act 1
Act 1 consists of meeting our two characters who find themselves ‘Lost’ In a never-ending
forest, the scene for the opening act has our two characters set in separate locations in a
forest with no recognition of why they are there. They awake and rise from the ground and
the two characters start to explore the forest and try and start to piece together why they
are there and how they got there. As the act progresses the characters start to hear rustling
and rattling of trees and bushes around them and become self-conscious that they are not
alone.
Act 2
Our characters start to discover signs of other life being out there and start to question
what is out there, the characters unknowingly are moving closer towards each other and
closer to answers, however the two characters are still trying to question who they are and
why they are in there position, after hearing what sounds like screaming our characters start
to shout out trying to hear someone or something reply to them. And throughout the
middle section of the film the two characters start getting flashbacks and glimpses of a life
that they maybe use to have while being tortured by the enclosing environment of the
forest.
Act 3
The final act consists of our characters discovering each other and ask them the questions
they’ve being asking there selves, however after a period of relief for the two characters
who are now not alone they start to question the chances of someone else being out there
or something else…
The two characters try to make their way out of this seemingly never-ending forest but
cannot find a way out of the cascades of trees and start to become hopeless with the noises
around them increasing and amplifying, and after a while they start to hear a creature

2. Treatment 1
stalking them like a predator, our two characters discover a way to escape the forest but is it
too late?
Storyboardfrom main scene
Script from opening scene
Character 1: Why am I here? (Muffled voice) Character rises from the ground
Character 2: Hello? (Shouts)
Character 1: Where am I?
Character 2: What is this place?
Character 1: Anyone out there? (Shouts)

3. Treatment 1
Form and style
The genres that I am aiming for with this short filmis dystopian and thriller because my
short filmwill in cooperate futuristic elements such as creatures that we haven’t seen or
heard of before, it will also be blended with the thriller genre as the short filmwill be quite
suspenseful with the level of suspense rising throughout the short filmand will leave the
audience anticipating what will happen next. In order to film this I would need GoPro
cameras or cameras that my characters can wear in a point of view scenario as I want the
audience to be in the same situation as the characters and to share the feelings that they
feel. Other cameras required for this would include Cannon cameras capable of establishing
shots and over the shoulder shots.
The mise en scene for this film is quite limited with a very limited amount of props that the
characters have, and the main location for this being a forest with nothing but the trees and
bushes that are in the forest.
Target audience
The target audience for this short film would be people of our age as they would be the
people most likely to want to watch a short filmlike this, however the target audience for
my short film would be quite large as it would have conventions from more than one genre.
I believe that my film is appropriate for my target audience because there isn’t a lot of
violence involved and if I included violence then I could be unable to have my film for this
target audience because if there was thing such as violence, gore, or offensive material I
could be made to make the film only available for an older audience as if It was open to
everyone then I could receive complaints from people who think that this film is
inappropriate for my target audience and I could then be made to take it down so by having
it not contain violence or offensive material then there would be little chance for complaints
and I could keep a good reputation with everyone watching my short film.