Treatment 1

Treatment 1

Title: Chain Mail

Brief synopsis of production:

Produce marketing material for a new thriller film. Posters and DVD front, back and margin.

Genre:

Thriller hybrid:

• Comedy- horror: so including spoof ideas, mockery of deaths (black comedy/slapstick) films such as lesbian vampire killers, Shaun of the dead and the scary movie saga.
• Thriller: so including thrilling and gripping storylines, uses suspense, tension, excitement, terror and anxiety. With the use of the slapstick theme, use these to also create jokes and entertain the audience.

Target Demographic:

• 15+
• Working class
• Students
• For people who will understand and be entertained by the slapstick comedy
• Mainly males, but females also.

Brief overview of the narrative:

·        Events:

-typical teenagers using the internet within a set and stereotypical social group.

-ignore what seems to be a chain mail about a dead girl, and they do not forward.

-as the clock strikes 12, the girl comes back to life, to kill all those who received a chain mail.

-becomes a race against time to defeat the girl and send on the chainmail before it’s too late.

-the emotional setting is disrupted by a play on the theme.

-the equilibrium is restored.

-ends with the image of the girl going after the rest of the people who the new people forwarded the chain mail onto (ends with a similar scene to the beginning of the movie setting up the new equilibrium)

·        Characters

-group of teenagers: jock

                         Class clown

                         Popular girl

                         Boy in love with popular girl

                         Outsider

                         Other members of the school