Final Treatment

We were not able to complete a final treatment with our final idea because the member of our group who was supposed to complete this missed a lot of lessons so was very behind in our group.

Actors and Costume

We tried to wear outfits that would look like normal jogging clothes, but this was obviously hard as we had to look exactly the same for each of our filming days. We both wore comfortable leggings with long casual tops and jumpers. We also both wore trainers as jogging could not be done in any other footwear.



We chose to use myself and Tailah as our actresses. This made everything much easier as we did not have to plan our filming around someone else outside of our group, we could just film when we were free or during our media lessons. Our film is also rated 15 so using Young teenage girls fits well with our audience. This is because they would be more interested in watching a film about people around their own age rather than something irrelevant to them.

Filming Lacation

This is a map of our location ^



Photos of our chosen location











We did all of our filming at Tooting Bec common. We chose this as it is a place where you would normally find lots of joggers and fits well with our story. We used one of the main pathways through the middle of the common to film the girls jogging. This simple location shows that the idea of the first two minutes of our film is simple and a normal ever day thing to do and place to be.

New Script

Two girls jogging through a local park on the main pathway.

Scene opens with a close up on their feet to show their jogging attire.

The camera pans upwards so that the audience can see the full clothing and faces of the main characters.

The camera does a close up shot on a mobile phone calling a number.

A medium shot on one of the jogging characters and she pulls her phone out of her pocket and the audience see a close up shot on her mobile phone where the screen reads “Witheld Number Calling”.

The camera alternates back to the phone of the unknown caller and the screen reads “Call Ended”.

The audience then see an over the shoulder shot of the unknown caller from behind the trees and it focuses in on the jogging girls.

Girl 1: Argh

Girl 2 begins to stretch

Girl 2: What’s wrong?

Girl 1 also begins to stretch

Girl 1: Someone keeps on calling me and just breathing down the phone.

Girl 2: Oh don’t worry about it, it’s probably just some kids.

Girl 1 looks very distressed and speaks hesitantly.

Girl 1: You’re probably right.

Girl 2: As always…..

Girl 2 smiles sarcastically.

Girl 2: Anyway, let’s keep going, we have two miles left.

Girl 1: Oh really? Argh!

The girls jog off together.

There is a full body shot of the girls jogging off from behind the shoulder of the person behind the trees.

Script (OLD)

Film Credits - Director and main two actors are shown.

Camera pans over a dirty apartment, the bedroom. It is darkly lit with the only light coming from the static of the television, high angle shot. The camera focuses on dirty plates and a "Springfield Mental Hospital" uniform overall.

Voiceover

Springfield Mental Hospital patient 52961 Kieran Spooner has escaped from his cell and is suspected still to be in the surrounding South London Area. He is a caucasian male of medium build with short blonde hair and is expected to be dangerous to those he meets due to his lack of mental stability and obsessive tendencies, please call Springfield on 020 8682 6000

Kieran gets into the bath and stares at the images on the wall against him. The camera focuses on images of four girls, printed from 'Facebook' . Three of the girls have had their faces crossed out with a red marker. Kieran begins to bathe himself.

The camera focuses on the image of a girl in the centre of the wall, she is with her boyfriend in the picture, the boyfriend has his face crossed out with a red marker.

The scene cuts to the title of the film. The remaining credits are shown

Official BBFC Film Certifications

Our Rating

We decided to rate our film a 15. This is because our genre of a Physiological Horror that we chose is very popular with this age group. Also ths story of the film can also effect them and interest them more than other ages. It would also not be suitable for younger viewers as there will be footage of killing and there may be some stong language. This is why we felt rating it a 15 would be most appropriate.

Treatment (OLD)

Our scene opens in a man's apartment. The camera pans along the surroundings of the apartment using a medium bird's eye shot. The panning shot allows the audience to see used plates and dishes in addition to an overall suit which is labelled "Springfield Hospital", this suggests to the audience that he does not have mental stability and also fits in with the conventions of other psychological horror films by setting it in a city such as London. This has been shown in films such as "The Sixth Sense" and "Rosemary's Baby" which have urban city settings.

The camera then pans into the bathroom of the apartment where we see the main character, _______ bathing. He is staring across the room at a white wall across from him plastered with images of the same girl, printed off her facebook account. The white background has been used to symbolise madness and a lack of sanity to be represented through the main character. The faces of the other people in the tagged photos of the desire of his affections have been scribbled out with a biro.

Whilst the audience become familiar with the main character the soundtrack played in the background is a remix of the song "Going in for the kill" by contemporary artist La Roux. We have chosen this track because it will attract our target audience which is teenagers, due to her being a success in that field, and the remix also uses very high pitched and extended sounds which can be used to build the tension which we have seen being used in our research of Psychological horrors.

The character from the opening scene is in fact an escaped patient from London mental hospital "Springfield" and has developed an obsession with the woman in the photos he has plastered on his bathroom wall. She lives locally to him, and once gave him some spare change for his oyster card, he mistook this common act of courtesy for affection and has convinced himself that she is in love with him, when she does not in fact know who he is. He begins to stalk those close to her, such as her boyfriend, and close family members, and steals a possession of theirs to target his hatred towards them as he believes that they are the obstacles stopping him being with her.

He eventually creates a shrine, his whole bathroom dedicated to her, and those close to her, until he tries to kill her and in fact ends up killing himself in the process. This is typical of psychological horrors because it ends in one death which is built up to instead of many pointless deaths throughout the film.

WHY WE CHANGED OUR IDEA
We chose to change the idea for our open sequence that we originally came up with. This is because we found it did not have enough connotations of a typical physiological horror film. We found our first idea told the audience too much about the killer in the first two minute, whereas a physiological horror normally tries to leave the audience with more questions. We therefore felt the need to change and adapt to our initial ideas making it fit our chosen genre more closely.

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