PRE: Treatment

A Working Title - Woe is me.

Production team name - Planetary Production

Format - Film/Digital

Genre or Subgenre - Psychological Thriller

Length - 45s - 1minute

Synopsis - A man tortured by his past, and obsessed with peoples fears sets up a project to test the behaviour of those who have to face them. His main project being a young female who fears meat; her tortured past relates back to when her abusive father would force her to repeatedly slaughter animals on their farm. She was quickly transformed into a vegetarian and haunted by the thought, sight and stench of the gruesome flesh and monstrous father. She is under the impression that she needs to be interviewed for a documentary which he is planning and also unaware of is the fact that he is compulsive and psychotic through his over-analytical thought processes revolving around his Shakespeare English coursework, which results in her becoming his guinea pig. She is tormented and tortured by being locked in a room with a piece a meat beginning the psychotic events. Are there more to follow? 

Intended Audience - Ages 15 -35, psychological horror fans and those who prefer the sub-genre thriller to the sub-genre slasher

What do you intend to do?

We intend to use montage editing throughout our teaser trailer as there are shots which cross-reference and change the setting and plot. Our teaser trailer doesn't tell a story so continuity editing would be ineffective and would be hard to use, montage is much more practical and adds to the tension and mood of the genre.

How will you do it?

feasibility - We will ensure that all of our ideas are reasonable and practical. If any problems occur then we are able to adapt our ideas to make them suitable for filming, for example being able to access all of the necessary props such as a butchers knife which is not accessible, although finding an alternative such as a plastic butchers knife and including make-up to make it exactly what we are looking for or even alternative weapons. 

Why is it worth doing?

This project will help each member of our group gain experience in certain fields which they may not have been involved in before, and will enhance skills which could later be used in their careers. We will be working in a team and sharing ideas to eventually create a final project, if we want the final project to be good then we will have to work cooperatively as well as individually. We will have to get used to new equipment and we will also be able to achieve a good grade by working hard which means a better future within education.