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A treatment is a break down of your movie story It is a foundation for a screenplay It reveals the full story and its structure, and shows

the main and secondary character For example personalities, relationships and how

they change and develop.

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SETUP A normal family living in a suburban house.

PLOT POINT I-The daughter is kidnapped due to herfather being unable to repay the debt he is in.

DEVELOPMENT-The father tries looking for hisdaughter, however he receives body part of herthrough his letterbox

PLOT POINT II The daughter is revealed to be eviland part of the plan the whole time to torment herfather and make him suffer.

RESOUTION

The daughter replaces her father bykilling her biological one and putting another man inhis place.

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FIRST ACT SET UP SECOND ACT

CONFRONTATION

THIRD ACT RESOLUTION

Charlotte. A normal teenage girl who leads a

typical life in a home with her loving family,

which consists of her younger Sister, her

Mother and Father.

After having a distressful day, Charlotte

rushes home and goes straight up to herroom. She bursts into tears and remains in a

state of despair, see feels as though she is

ignored by her father.

Her father, a loving man, however very pre-

occupied by work, because of the amount of

debt he is in.

he enters her room, and attempts to comfort

her by asking her what is wrong and as she

goes to reply, he receives a phone call from

work. Concerned about what it is about, he

answers the call.

Charlotte feels hurt as she wants attention

from him yet never given any, especially at

the times she needs it the most.

To make matters worse, her Father mentions

he needs to go to work immediately as it is an

emergency. After he exits the room, Charlotte

hits the wall in pure anger.

The mother Carol, asks Whats wrong withher? Is she ok?, to which the Father responds

with Shes fine. I need to go to work sorry

and leaves.

Later that evening Carol expresses her

concerns about Charlotte and how she has

not been herself recently. But in response, the

Father says that they have bigger worries tofocus on. He explains how they are in

extreme amounts of debt due to him

borrowing He has no way of paying any of themoney back.

Charlotte is alone in the house, she planning

to go out with her friends, she sits there doing

her makeup after it was ruined by her upset,

while Music is playing out loudly.

The door bell rings, she turns the music off.

charlotte assumes its her family cominghome, as she opens the door no one is there,

she finds it very odd and makes her slightly

nervous, but ignores it.

she goes to the kitchen to calm her nerves

and pours herself a drink. Suddenly she hears

rattling coming from the garden, she stares in

despair, wondering what that was. Again the

rattling was much louder, in shock she drops

her drink, smashing all over the floor.

In desperation she grabs a sharp knife.

Breathing heavily, she slowly walks towards

the window, as she draws the curtains, a man

appears and slams his hands against the

glass. She stubbles back and screams

knocking things on her way. While the

masked man continues slamming the widows.

The music begins to play on its own. charlotte

stands frightened towards the door, it

suddenly creaks open, and the masked manappears.

He grabs her and he struggles to break free

from him and get to safety, however his

strength overpowers hers, and he takes her.

When the parents return home the notice a

trail of blood across the matt, they try and find

charlotte but she is gone. the mother screamswith upset but the father suggest its the

people he owes money to and orders theycant go to the police or they will kill her.

The father attempt to find his daughter, Carol

goes in a state of depression as she believes

her daughter is dead.

After no success in finding charlotte, he

begins to receive body parts of what he

believes is his daughter in the post and deadthings on his doorstep. He starting to get

desperate, she is either seriously hurt or is

dead. He believes that the only way to get her

back is to raise the money, which there is no

way he can do. He considers phoning the

police.After feeling as if its too late and he

has no chance in saving her. he finds a trace

(a letter) to where his daughter might be held

and so he goes searching for her in that

direction, but still fails to find her.

Eventually Charlotte returns home with the

masked man who has supposedly kidnapped

her. Although her family are incredibly

thankful to see her, they are full with anger

and hatred to see the man behind it all. They

are also incredibly confused as to why their

daughter has no injuries whatsoever, when

they had received body parts of her such as a

finger, or so they thought. The father goes tohit the masked man however Charlotte

screams for him to stop. She settles their

confusion by announcing that she has been

part of the plan the whole time, and has been

working with the masked man. The parents

become aware of her psychological disorder,

and realise she is incapable of changing,even with help, Charlotte murders her father

in the most violent way, and reveals to the

rest of her family that the masked man, will be

the new father of the house.