Treatment

One of the most important stages of our creation was inevitably the treatment for our trailer, as our film was originally organised to be a horror, we had the idea of filming in Denbigh mental asylum, an abandoned hospital for the clinically insane in Wales.

This would have been perfect for a cliché horror film such as ours was planned to be.



The location prompts a thriller film or trailer as it is terrifying even to look at in a photo, I will go on to write my treatment out.
The scene begins with a panning shot on the door of the asylum; the camera pans out to show a truly fearsome skyscraper of a building, then a cut to three teenagers with copious amounts of alcohol in tow.
The teenagers have a genius idea to break into the asylum and drink copious amounts and start a fire and other such childish joys, but little do they know a rampaging psychopath has been locked in the asylum for around twenty years; the ghoulish figure is armed and dangerous and has been waiting for another opportunity to slaughter.
The trailer's plot though must be reasonably short, so the outline of the plot starts from the panning shots of the huge building with several establishing shots - then cuts to the inside; the teenagers are still drinking, playing music and being generally loud. when 30 seconds into the shot the camera cuts to a tall mangled man with a large bloodstained machete, the murderer strolls towards the morgue of the hospital where the children reside drinking profusely - the camera focuses on the children with a close up reaction shot which shows the terror in the children’s eyes, then it zooms to an extreme close up showing an eye gradually turning red with fear and finally the horribly disfigured murderer is shown.

The camera cuts to black, and a typically masculine American voice depicts the catchphrase of the film.
"They never could have foreseen such a terribly disfigured death" (for instance)

MW