Treatment Hannah Whittall
Product
Our product is a two minute opening sequence of our thriller movie/film. Our product will be showed in cinemas in between showings of thriller movies which have similarities to our own product. We will put our two minute sequence on youtube so we can get feedback from the public. We also thought about showing our product on television channels; movie/film channels especially like Sky Thriller, Sky Showcase or others such as the Syfy channel.
Target Audience
Our product has a film classification of 15. The age range is from 15-30. We chose this age because we think children below this age may find aspects of our piece disturbing and in other cases may not even relate enough to our main characters to enjoy watching it. People above the age of 30 wont suit our product because our actors are teenagers and they will be less able to relate to them. Essentially, anyone under this age would in a sense be too immature to fully understand our product in its entirety. Wed hope to aim our finished product to a range of people from late teenage years to middle aged adults.
Context
Our product will eventually be broadcasted on the website Youtube. This means that our sequence needs to be eye catching and memorable enough for people to want to watch it and go out to watch the whole film when its out. Then to leave feedback which we can use to review the good and bad points about our sequence.
Media Concepts
Media Languages
The style of our product will be the same as a conventional thriller film as we want the genre to be obvious and clear. Were going to use dim or maybe flickering lighting to create a tense, mysterious and dark atmosphere. Well use camera angles such as close-ups to show the fear and emotion on our characters faces, well show long shots to show the scene those same characters are in and to set the scene. Well use ghostly, intense sounds and music to intensify the atmosphere and to tribute the emotions of the character. Well change between different scenes and camera angles in order to keep the viewers tense and wanting to know whats going to happen next. This will also help us to create suspense throughout.
Institutions
Distributing We feel one of the best choice of distributor for our product will be Universal Pictures.
We believe Universal Pictures is a good choice to distribute our film because it is a well known, popular company who distributes a variety and wide range of films for different genres and difference audiences. Distributors who specialise in specific genres or specific types of film are usually not as popular or well known. Using a popular distributor would ensure that our product reaches out to as much of our target audience as possible. Our Production Company
We decided to call our production team HLS prodctions. We decided on this because we thought it was a simple and easily remembered name, which stands for the Haunted Living Soul. We tried to relate the genre and our sequence to the logo which was designed as follows:
I think the logo turned out clear, dark, simple and eye catching whilst having colours that relate to our genre (red- referring to blood) without being over the top or overcrowded. We wanted the logo to send out a clear message of what our thriller sequence will relate to.
Representations
Were having a stereotypical protagonist. She is female teenager who is naive and is shown to be unprotected and isolated in the movie. This is a common representation of a protagonist. Were also having an antagonist, whos not as stereotypical. Shes also female. Having a female, in a dominant, controlling role is unusual as in a lot of typical thriller films there is a male playing this part. We feel by also having this character as female our product will stand out from other films of the same genre, therefore making it more recognisable and a little different.
Genre
Thriller is a genre that typically uses tension, suspense and an adrenaline rush as its main elements. Not revealing essential information to the audience to make the audience in fear of what will happen next. Elements of sub genres like psychological
thrillers include elements such as captivity, stalking and obsession. We are only capturing the first two minutes of a thriller movie, but we will be using quite a few of these elements even though the time we have is limited. We have a ghost like figure who is following/stalking, our protagonist and because we dont find out the story behind the stalking she may well be obsessed with the main character. The protagonist is isolated in this deserted school and thats another feature we will be including in our sequence that is typical of the thriller genre. As the setting is in a deserted building it is also typical of the genre because the atmosphere is usually very silent and deserted, emphasizing noises such as her heart beat to create an adrenaline rush for the audience.
