Treatment

Our production company is called take on productions, the

task we have been set is to make a horror/thriller. The genre
we have decided to base our film on is a horror. We are going
to carry out different types of research to ensure that we
have made a film that also matches the conventions of a
stereotypical horror. The film consists of a boy who was in
detention and has just finished his time in detention, he
walks out of detention and he is constantly hearing noises and
when he turns around nobody is there. As he keeps hearing
noises he keeps hearing noises and again nobody is there,
there is then a build up of tension and a range of different
shots a long with sound effects that is gradually building up
to a climax. The boys facial expressions then portray an idea
of paranoia; he then turns around a third time and then he
gets hit with a weapon and he is then in apparent distress and
you hearing the noise of a gun sounding and it moves on to the
rest of the film and the initial sequence blanks out, and the
scene is set.
The target audience is predominantly people between the ages
of 15-35 We have also made the film so it appeals to both
genders. Although this genre and sub are usually more suiting
to males, females may also enjoy it, due to the sense of
mystery and tension within it. The film is also fitting for a
wide range of people, across all religions and beliefs, in
regards to interests people that are comedy or romance
enthusiast may not necessarily enjoy it. People that enjoy
watching thriller, horror and action adventure would enjoy
watching this as they are relatively similar in their
conventions. We want people to react positively to our
product; we want people to see how we have followed the
conventions of a horror but also seen that we have followed
them extensively and made it interesting. We also want them to
see how we made it unique in our own way rather than following
the guidelines of the horror/thriller. When receiving the
feedback from the audience we want to see that there has been
some sort of recognition in regards to what messages we have
incorporated in the text. We will ensure that the audience
likes the film as we are going to release information
strategically, release information slowly; keeping the
audience hooked and keep them asking questions as to what is
going to happen next, we also want to ensure that there is
always some sense of action, again keeping the audience hooked
and we figured that it would be amongst the audiences
preferences to see action within the film. We have made our
film suitable for the mass audiences, and we chose to do this
rather than niche as we wanted the audience to be larger to
ensure there were more people understanding the message we
were trying to portray throughout the film. We have carried
out pre production questionnaires to find out what the
audience will expect to see from our production and how they
want us to follow the conventional guidelines. We also used
the research to help us decide on our target audience and we
found out that people in the age region of 15-35 was.

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generally the audience that preferred to watch this, but we

also found out that generally the younger you were the more
popular this horror film would have been. Probably due to the
fact that the characters in this film were teenagers and the
younger audience felt that they could relate to them more than
the older audience could.
Context:
The product will be viewable on many different forms of media,
on the 31st October 2014 the film will be released in the
cinema, and then after a few months when its no longer
available to watch in cinemas it will be viewable on sky
movies sky movies being a channel that is popular with the
age group that we have aimed the product at. We will then be
able to air it on more main stream channels such as ITV1/ITV2
these two channels being again relatively popular with the age
group we have aimed our product at. We will try and make
people aware of our product through magazines and through the
internet; the film itself will be advertised on the internet
through social media, facebook, twitter etc and the movie
trailer will be viewable on YouTube, again making the people
aware of it and giving them a taster as to what its about.
Media language:
The film will be a horror, so to ensure it fits the generic
conventions we will use dark lighting. The effect of this will
be to create a constant feeling of suspense and danger
throughout. The dark lighting also makes it more realistic and
the setting will also give it that sense of realism as its in
a place thats isolated from other people. The cinematography
within the two minute will show that the protagonist is in
some degree of distress after reading the text message. There
will be many different shots put together such as close up to
show facial expressions and also mid and long shots to
highlight body language and to show how quickly shes walking
to give the audience an idea as to how shes feeling.

Within the two minute extract we make the large majority of

the sound will be non diegetic, meaning that the audience
will be able to hear it but the characters cant. The sound
used will be music over the film to build tension, it will
initially start slowly and gradually build in speed signaling
the fact the climax of this particular extract is soon coming
and somethings about to happen. The diegetic sounds that will
be used would be footsteps, doors/garages creaking and a gun
shot. Asynchronous sound will be used in the extract, an
example of it being used is when the protagonist hears that
she has a message from the ringtone, she then reads it and
instantly her mood changes and the mood of the extract changes
and tension starts to build.
Institution:

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Our production company is called take one productions; we will

make people aware of our production company through
magazines/newspaper and on the internet through social media,
to ensure that we can acquire the largest possible audience by
making them aware of our company.
Representation:
The representation of our characters will be represented as
countertypes in the sense that the protagonist will be a boy
and he will be presented as the vulnerable character and have
many inabilities to defend himself but generally a better
person. In comparison to the antagonist who is a female and
portrayed as physically able, but we see a dark and twisted
character when we see her.
Genre:
The genre we have chosen for our film is horror, most of the
aspects of the film fit the generic conventions of a horror,
for example when the protagonist has been abducted the setting
is dark, and adds a sense of mystery and danger to it. Also
the music used is slow and gradually speeds up to show theres
danger on the horizon. Its also conventional in the sense
that theres a state of equilibrium and then that is disrupted
and then theres disequilibrium, and theres a theme of binary
opposites where theres good vs. bad and boy vs. girl which is
a theme across a lot of horror movies.

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