Treatment

To create our treatment Wafa and I came together and put all our ideas together for or trailer and ancillary tasks. We then brought both our ideas together to decide for our final ideas for our products. 

Film Title

The Blind Eye

Synopsis:

Together we created the following synopsis for our trailer:

An Asian girl is sitting outside a dull and isolated building whilst on her laptop. She decided to go on a website that is rumoured to cause a supernatural creature to come and haunt but she does not believe it and thinks not much of it even when the website warns her. A few days later she is walking through an alleyway alone and feels the presence of a dark force behind her. After looking back and seeing nothing is there she carries on walking but then the supernatural creature hits her with an unknown object. She then gains conscience in a toilet and still feeling a little dizzy she walks toward the sink, which has a mirror on top and washes her face. When she looks at the mirror she sees the supernatural creature and runs away. After another Asian girl decides to go on the cursed website after hearing the rumours and is then chased by the villain who at the last scene is about to reveal its identity. 

My Poster Synopsis:

Can your eyes ignore what the mind sees?

 FORMAT:

For our horror/thriller magazine and poster will be using a 'jpeg' format. This is after we create the ancillary product on Photoshop. The reason why we will use Photoshop is because we can create our ancillary products to look professional and attractive through this software. The editing tools in Photoshop we can liquefy the actors and also make them look flawless. The text on the magazines and posters will be able to look professional through the use of the fonts and editing tools. The camera we will be using to take footage for our trailer as well as photographs for our posters and magazine will be Nikon D3100. The reason for this is because the Nikon D3100 takes high quality footage and photographs, which are vital, as this will make our trailer and ancillary tasks, look professional. Our trailer and ancillary tasks will be distributed on YouTube and Facebook as this ensure a wider audience will be able to access our products and even have a chance to leave comments.  

Estimated Duration:

1 minute, 21 seconds. 

We decided to create a teaser trailer as this will leave the audience with a lot of enigmas and also keep the trailer and supernatural creature a mystery.

Intended Audience:  

We are aiming at the audience within the age range of 16-24, so mid-teens and young adults. The reason for this is because our genre is horror/thriller and so not suitable for a younger audience. Also the character in our trailer are within that age range and so are more likely to attract an audience within the ages 16-24.  Our product is not specifically aimed at an audience within a certain class or status but from our secondary research we have found that the actors in horror/thriller movies are usually white middle-class and so by using Asian actors we may attract a wider and more multicultural audience.  Also due to all our actors being female we may attract more of the female audience.

 Style/Genre:

The genre of our trailer is a crossover of horror and thriller. This is because through our primary and secondary research we have found that our potential audience would rather watch a crossover of two genres rather than a product with one genre. The tone that we want to create within our trailer is of fear and isolation. This is conventional as most horror/thriller trailer tries to create this tone too. We have created a teaser trailer instead of a normal trailer so that not a lot of the story and narrative is given away and the audience are left with enough enigmas to want to watch the movie. This is also why we did not include scenes of the supernatural character actually killing anyone. However, to make sure that the audience think of or trailer as being scary we did add a few scary scenes that may make their hearts race. This is what all horror/thriller trailers do and so due to this our audience may be able to recognize the genres.

 RATIONALE:

Our product is relevant to our target audience, which are people within the age range of 16-24. Our target audience is slightly more directed towards females due to more female characters; however, both males and female within the age range of 16-24 are still targeted and relevant for the trailer. Our product will be relevant as due to the genre of horror/thriller it will not be suitable for a younger audience of people under 16. We have found from or research that the common group of people that will watch our trailer is 16-24 year old people.

FEASIBILITY:

The actors that we will use will need to be very flexible so that if we need to shoot a scene last minute they should be available. This is why we decided that Wafa should be the main character that is the supernatural creature. As she is in our group it means that I can rely on her to be available if we need to shoot last minute.  We will also be using locations that we are able to access easily that will not cost a lot to reach as we have a low budget.

BUDGET:

Due to our budget being low we will borrow equipment such as cameras and filming equipment instead of buying them. The actors we hire will also be voluntary and will work for free. This will ensure that we do not go over budget and spend a lot of money. So therefore we will be able to make high quality products whilst saving money. However, if we do need to spend a lot of money for example on the costumes then we will hold a fundraising in order to save up money. 

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:

• Nikon D3100  camera
• Computer- iMac
• Editing software- Final cut pro
• Photoshop