Treatment

TREATMENT:

At the start, all we see is darkness, a deafening silence over powers the scene, until its eventually broken with a women’s breath.  She lights the scene with her cigarette, and inhales deeply and pauses for a moment. All we hear now is the sound of a car passing on the wet road and a black bird singing, it’s becoming dark, and it’s getting late.  The young girl stands alone, her silver hair tied into two cute tails, while the rest of her hair remains down and straight. She’s dressed in a scarf and buttoned coat, wearing placid heads and ripped jeans, she remains still, looking around her as if she’s waiting for something. Next, all we hear is her cigarette bud hitting the ground and her shoe bottom scraping the ground, for her then to walk off and we hear her heels heading into the distance. She heads to her house now, closing in, she opens the front door, but due to being small, with some struggle. Once into her home, she heads to her room, where she sits, all remains still. From here, we have cut shots between what the female character known as EVA and the two kidnappers. At points where one kidnapper ties up her hair, Eva will be taking her two pony tails down. This will create a sense of danger with in natural, due to the fact two such evil people will be casually getting ready as would a young woman, this will create a great establishment of our characters. After a few of these cut shots between the two locations and three characters, it will have a sudden cut after the kidnappers finally get hold of Eva. It’ll then cut straight into a shot of Eva in what seems like a shed, injured and afraid. We’ll conclude with a close up on her blood shot eyes, to create the fear into the shot and to have the audience connect with the character, to then cut into the end to the name title straight after a single tear falls down her bruised blushed cheek.

Taking to influence of films, our film is very like ‘Alice Creed’ which is also a film which a young girl is kidnapped by two men (but in our case, it’s also a women). Like Alice Creed, which is a thriller, of which we are also doing, we have a young girl named Eva, who is kidnapped due to the purpose of payment. Again, our film will be like Alice Creed due to the set pace between cuts and shots, they’ll be quick and fast paced throughout, always letting the audience understand what is happening. Again, the colour pallet of Alice Creed is very musky and cold looking, which ours will also be based upon, due to it being filmed in the dark and in a damp environment. Finally, we’re going to aim for the same idea of their intro by not having any dialect and having the characters and mise en scene establish the scene and feed forward any connotations.