Ideas & Treatment - Outline to the Story of My Filming Coursework - The Dark

IDEAS

            - Adventure

                        - Good Story Line                                         - Could be achievable

                        - Interesting Location                                    - Hard to achieve

                        - Costume (Relation to Location)                  - Hard to achieve, expense

           

- Action

                        - Large Budget (Stunts & Chases)                        - Not achievable

                        - Fast Pace                                                            - Achievable, editing

                        - Good vs Bad                                                      - Achievable, easy storyline

           

- Crime/Gangster

                        - Costumes                                                       - Hard to achieve, expense

                        - Stunts & Fights                                              - Not achievable, expense & danger

                        - Mystery                                                         - Achievable, storyline

- Dark/Sinister (Film Noir)                              - Achievable, shooting & editing

           

- Comedy

                        - Light Hearted Plot                                  - Achievable, storyline

                        - Funny                                                     - Extremely hard to achieve, script           

           

- Horror

                        - Fright/Scare/Fear                                              - Achievable, storyline

                        - Mystery                                                            - Achievable, storyline

                        - Low Budget                                                     - Very achievable

- (Special effect may be expensive)                    - Not achievable, not necessary

           

- Drama

                        - Realistic Characters                                    - Hard to achieve, good actors

                        - Good Storyline                                           - Could be achievable, time

- Sci-Fi

            - Special Effects                                            - Not achievable, expense

            - Futuristic/Fantasy Location                        - Not achievable, expense

Due to achievability, availability and time consumption the genre we are going to go down the route of will be Horror. This is because of the low budget and easy ability to create a storyline that will scare or fright the audience as well as provoking questions that will leave the audience wanting more.

TREATMENT

I am working with Caledonia Quigley to produce our title sequence and opening scenes to the coursework filming project. our film is titled "The Dark" which we have vaguely based on the book entitled with the same name.

Our film is set around a babysitter who has strange thing happen to her and the audience is not quite sure why. our first scenes show her going to the house to babysit but it set in and eerie manner. After she has checked the baby and is then watching TV, these loud noises start to occur, she ignores them at first but then as they become louder she begins to panic. After ensuring her safety by locking the door she climbs the stairs again to check the baby. However this time the baby is not in the cot.

We have decided to make a brief plan as to what would happen later on in our film if we were to continue and produce the whole thing. After she does not see the baby where it was before she starts to panic but chooses to ignore it. Later when checking the third time the baby is replaced and all is fine. However strange unexplainable things happen throughout this girl’s life, similar to this, which end in twisted ending that will explain all.

We are hoping to film this soon, in one of our houses, as it is mainly set indoors. However this will all needed to be filmed at night, due the ‘dark’ theme and the fact it is a babysitting based film, which is usually performed in the evening/night. The darkness will also have a great effect on the genre, Thriller/Horror, as these are dark and eerie based themes.