Final Idea and Treatment

Three Pitch Ideas:

1)      Combination of the ‘The Ring’ and ‘Dark Water’ meets ‘the Neglected’ in the playground.

Supernatural, mystery, haunts innocent people for revenge.

Common paradigms which are consisted in our scenario are -Death, creepy child and neglect/revenge.

Setting of a playground which is normally seen as a safe environment however will be displayed in an isolated surrounding. This idea follows Todrov’s theory it is structuralised as it follows Todorov’s approach to narrate the film as it moves from equilibrium to disturbance and then back to a new equilibrium.

2)      Combination of ‘The Wrong Turn’ and ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ meets ‘Trapped.’

Slasher, suspense, revenge, blood, knifes final girl and male gaze.

A group of friends go off on a road trip when they get stranded on an isolated grounds in the woods, soon the group of friends experience weird things taking place around them and shortly one by one start to go missing. This pitch follows the Barthes Enigma coding, as the plot creates an element of mystery to the entire audience therefore intriguing them and leaving them wanting more.

3)                  Final pitch idea, a combination of ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Attack the Block’ meets ‘The Infected Zone’  Zombies, blood and gore, humour/comedy, house and a group of friends.

A group of teenage boys at home soon realise all is not what is seems, as they realise that their neighbourhood is overtaken by ‘infected zombies’ in addition more pressure is put on them when they realise they’re the only ones who are not infected and is up to them to save the rest of mankind. This pitch is a postmodern as it is a mixture of horror and comedy.

Scenario:

Chosen idea is the neglected:

 “A 6 year old girl is neglected by her mother and over shadowed by her younger sister who is more loved. She dies in an accident and her spirit comes back for revenge.” This

‘Haunted child’ being the main paradigm.

“The Little creepy girl” being the main paradigm for a character also the trailers antagonist. ‘Teenager’ as the victim – protagonist of the trailer.

‘Playground’, ‘isolated house’ and ‘attic’ as the as the setting.

Treatment- 

The opening starts with moment of equilibrium, as the first scene is set in a playground creating a peaceful and playful atmosphere. A young girl is sitting on the swings being pushed by her parents, this moment is soon executed when her baby sister start crying this therefore enforces her parents attention to be drawn to the baby rather than her this therefore leaves her feeling ‘neglected’ and ‘alone’. Right before the close up shot is shown of the girl, a tone card is presented on the screen stating ‘The neglected’, therefore close up shot is shown of the girl swinging on the swings alone, clearly showing she is being neglected. The next scene is when a family picture is being taken but the girl is forced into tacking the picture as she is upset and overshadowed by her baby sister. Through a fade we are taken to the next scene where the baby is peacefully sleeping and her sister is beside her drawing a resentful picture of her, another tone card is presented ‘innocence is deadly’ clarifying for the audience that the girl is evil and bitter.  The next scene is the girl spying on her mum and baby sister through the door this helps the audience get a better understanding of the girls character as its in her point of view, further to this scene a low angle, long shot is shown of the girl this makes the girl look superior and intimidating in addition the music in the background gets more tensed and amplified pushing the idea of jealousy and suspicion. The next scene play a dominant role in the trailer as we witness the girl feeling neglected which formulates her to run out of the house this is when a blackout is created with additional sound effects such as a car crash, scream, ambulance, a heart monitor and flat line making it clear for the audience she has been run over by a car and died. 

Another tone card is shown, stating a time change this is where the girl comes back to haunt her younger sister who is no longer little anymore, the next scene takes placed in the bedroom when the ‘younger sister’ is sleeping peacefully gets attacked by her ‘dead older sister.’ The next seen shows the family picture which was taken at the beginning which also shows the girl no longer in the picture, furthermore more scene are shown of the ‘younger sister’ being haunted by her dead sister which therefore leads her to check the attic this is when the younger sister witnesses her dead older sister.  Soon after another tone card is present ‘playtime isn’t over’ this leads to the playground where the dead girl is swinging and spinning on the roundabout with weird things taking place, lastly another tone card is presented stating ‘It’s only just begun’ when the  dead girl is shown laughing.

Tone cards:

 Title – ‘The Neglected’, names of crew.  ‘Play time isn’t over yet..’ ‘Innocence Is Deadly’ and ‘It’s only just begun’

Key Scenes: 

Happy family scene

Neglected scene

Girl getting jealous

Blackout – screams heard, Accident heard.

Younger sister getting haunted.

Swing scene

Little girls face. – shocks the audience.

(Changes may be made) 

Location:

Playground

House

Attic