Media Studies – Treatments
Plot of the Story
(Structure and Narrative)
The main storyline of our movie is that three to four teenagers plan
out a trip with each other, somewhere to stay away in a trip – however they
take a ‘turn for the worst’ and stumble across an old abandoned building filled
with traps and other nasty and malicious things shown throughout the rooms the
troop peruse around in. One-by-one, each person of the gang gets lost within
the house and is killed off in a unique but deadly way (such as the Saw movies,
but not forced into their demises) – Though with this being said it’ll end on a
cliff hanger after two minutes (the maximum time it can go on for). This means
we’ll end this on a cliff hanger as soon as they enter the building.
The Film Itself
Our aim is to produce a two minute opening of a horror
film. Our film will appeal to the family; but mainly teenagers and will be
completed by December the 4th ‘14. We want our film to be insightful
and enjoyable to watch for the audience. We want to create an in tensing film
too, so the audience is on the front of their seats wanting more incredible
events to happen during the movie. We strive for these things to happen
throughout the movie by using iconic sound effects to terrify our audience. We
also plan on using a lot of non-diegetic sounds; sounds that are man-made to
give of a real effect too. We will also be using regular diegetic music too for
the intro of the movie along with the rolling opening titles too. We also plan
on using a lot of Mise-en-Scene in the starting scenes too, once everyone
collects everyone/ knocks for the others too – trying to give off the effect
that they’ve just woken up, or ready to go. We also plan on using effective
camera shots and angles to fill the audience in on how the others are currently
feeling about this trip. We also will use Final Cut Pro/ Sony Vegas Pro to edit
our movie opening. Like said before, we will edit in our diegetic music to fill
in the backdrop (preferably once the people are riding to their ‘destination’).
We will try and edit the non-diegetic music to become louder on camera (by
using audacity or another sound-editing programmer). We want our audience to become
an active audience and get them engaged whilst make them enjoy the movie too.
Our film will show a message and a moral from what you learnt from the movie; you
can explore, but too much can lead to bad things or things you might not to
want have to uncover; i.e. death.
Summary: S/N and Film Depth/ Mechanics (How it’ll Work)
- Two minute opening of a horror movie.
- Deadline: Dec. 4th, ’14.
- Active audience: insightful and
enjoyable movie for them – get the engaged and question the film itself. We
have a tense structure and narrative too.
- Target market/ audience: for adults/
family; though mainly for teenagers.
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Sounds: non-diegetic gives off more
realism to the film and places them in ‘pure terror’.
- Sounds: diegetic for music being played
with opening movie titles.
- Mise-en-Scene: comes with acting; want
to show the audience how people feel through other objects around them.
- Editing: done with Final Cut Pro./ Sony
Vegas Pro. – will help with quality and editing (rough cut edit and final
edit).
Lillibrooke Manor: The house. The house is notorious for its
outstanding yet creepy atmosphere. This manor; the main section of the land.
The abundant house still lives within its Victorian-based era due to its olden
day ware around the inside of the house.