The document provides details on a proposed short horror film called "The Babysitter". The main character is 18-year old Emily, who is babysitting one night. Strange events occur as lights flicker and the children mysteriously disappear. Emily discovers a creepy clown in the garden and later finds the children in the basement, only to be attacked from behind. The film aims to appeal to teenagers and will be distributed on YouTube to reach its target audience. It will be shot in a dark, rainy winter setting to build suspense and tension.

1. Treatment idea 1
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’tgive 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 carefulwho you babysitfor” 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 babysitto make a bit of money.
Length – the length of my film will be less than 10 minutes as it is going to be a
shortfilm. I think it will probably be about 7-8 minutes. I want to keep my film
quite shortso viewers don’tlose interest and stop watching. So I’ll keep it
shortand havea 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 sheis 18 so was born in 2000 and Emily was the mostcommon baby
name in 2000. I chosethemost common baby name as she is justa 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.
Act One – the film starts off in the children’s bedroomwith them playing with
the toys. Itthen 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. Thechildren 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 “whatareyou 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 shejust 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 juststood in the kitchen staring at her

2. and her drink is on the side. She thinks that he is sleep walking so she walks
him back to bed. The parents’ bedroomdoor is slightly open and shehears
someone in there so shepushes the door open slowly butthere 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 juststaring 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 juston their way home. The babysitter locks
all the doors then run upstairs to get the children but they aren’tin their room.
She calls them and walks around the house looking for them and shehears
noises coming fromthe basement. She goes into the basementand the
children are stood in the corner looking at the wall. The boy still has his toy.
The babysitter says thatthey got to get somewheresafe becausethere’s a
clown outside and then she gets smacked over the head with a spadeand it
was the clown. The next shotis the babysitter waking up in a locked room.
They kidnapped the babysitter so they could keep her as a slave.
Target audience – I feel as though the main audience for this film is teenagers.
This is becausemany teenagers like horror films and like being scared. I also
feel as though becausethe film is called the babysitter they will be able to
relate to it as most teenagers havebabysitted to get pocketmoney. 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 shootthis film in the winter time. I wantit 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 justso
the camera is steady. I am going to make surethat the pans and camera
movement is slow to add to the suspenseand 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 whereI 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 becauseit would be free to
watch it would get more views and people would shareit round. I think that
there is a chance of a prequel which would focus on the family after they have

3. kidnapped the babysitter to be a slaveand I think that’d make a good crime
film.