Treatment of our Psychological Thriller -Hanna Balinski !Scriptwriter/Director/Cameraman and editor !Aga, Alexie and James !

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Synopsis

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Our main plot is focused on a girl aged 18 (Hanna Balinski) who befriends a younger girl aged 16 (Carrie) and tries to control her life, influencing the way she acts, dresses and what she eats !After Carrie refuses to take part in cannibalistic activities Hanna turns on her and Carrie makes it her mission to escape before she too becomes main course of Hannas grand feast. !Our 2 minute opening sequence will consists of Hanna Balinskis morning routine and various shots, linking to canibalism. It will make the opening sequence enigmatic and make the audience want to watch our movie.

Costume

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!Hanna will wear provocative clothing which is either red or dark coloured. Red symbolises danger, sexuality, murder and her hunger for blood-drenched meats. !!!!!!Carrie wears dark clothing. She dresses quite modestly in jumpers and jeans. Her clothing style changes to become more sexual, similar to Bellas as she is influenced.

Technical elements !!Visual elements: !We will edit our opening sequence framing various objects to create a montage of images, such as a bloody knife, slicing meat, etc. Our camera movement will include transitions from slow zooms and quick shots between montages and angles add to make our film more thrilling. !!Sound:!Sound used in our film will be made up of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds with diegetic sounds being enhanced to make our opening sequence impacting and thrilling. This includes sounds such as slicing meat and sharpening knifes. We also want to have sounds playing in the background that are eerie and make the audience feel uncomfortable and scared, such as increasingly loud drums banging, a low/out of tune piano or violins. This technique will engage the senses and make the audience feel uncomfortable and tense which is my intended effect. !!Props: !Tool-box, cage, fake blood, meat, rope, books about cannibalism, red lipstick, toothpick.

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Recce

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Dagenham Park school !One possible location for our filming is Dagenham Park (below). The performing arts studio is painting black and has state of the art lighting and equipment that will make our film more disorientated and eerie. Before we can film here we have to gain permission to use the studio from the head of performing arts and also props, i.e. the bars shown in the picture. We also need the technician to work the lighting for us whilst we film. We only need a 1-2 hours to film a scene where Hanna Balinskis victim is trapped, as I am aware this room is often occupied by students during lessons and after school. !!!!!!!!!!

Recce

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Agas house !!Were also planning to film the morning routine at Agas house because it looks more realistic and we can use the kitchen to film the shots of slicing and frying meats. On the left is a copy of the timetable of busses that go towards Agas house from Barking station, which is where Ill be travelling from to get to Agas house. When filming at Agas house it is important that we decide what rooms were using to film and that they arent occupied by members of Agas family.There must also be enough natural lighting in the house, as the camera doesn't film well in badly lit environments.

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Intended Target audience We want our film to appeal to audiences within the age demographic of 14-20. This is because young people are at a stage of development where they want to learn and experience new things. Horror and thriller genres often provide cheap, safe thrills. Weve aimed our thriller at teens specifically because the characters in our film are teenagers and therefore, our teen audience can relate. !We are aiming our film at both females and males. The characters within our opening sequence are both females, therefore the heterosexual, male audience may be attracted to the characters. Combined with male hormonal desires with there love for blood, violence and gore; this will certainly appeal to the teen boys.!Stereotypically females are thought to be more sensitive and scared of themes that involve blood and gore. However, this isn't the case for all females. And by having female characters within our film; we can appeal to a larger female demographic through realistic portrayals of friendship and betrayal, which females can relate to and also thrilling twists that keeps them on the edge of their seats. !!

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Film rating !After reading through the guidelines set by the of BBFC; we have chosen to rate our film a 15. !There will be: !Adult themes!Some use of strong language!Scenes containing violent implications throughout the film that some viewers may find disturbing. !We didn't rate our film 18 because it doesn't contain nudity or scenes of a sexual nature.!!!!

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limitations

We may not be able to get the props we want such as, a human size cage. In this case we may use a chair as a prop instead.!Some of our team may not be available for filming and rehearsal days. In this case well starting filming the knives and meat, e.t.c for our montages and film shots that they aren't in. !!!!!!

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