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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 girl who is walking home relatively undisrupted, she
then receives a text message saying I know what you did,
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 girls facial
expressions then portray an idea of paranoia; she then
gets hit with a weapon and taken to a remote place. She
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
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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
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 31
st
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.



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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:

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
stereotypical in the sense that the protagonist will be a
girl and she will be presented as vulnerable and have
many inabilities to defend herself but generally a better
person. In comparison to the antagonist hes a male and
portrayed as physically able, but we see a dark and
twisted character when we see him.

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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