Treatment (First Two Minutes)

The Remembering

Duration:

The duration of the clip is 2-3 minutes.

Audience:

The audience for ‘The Remembering’ is for anyone who is interested in and enjoys horror/supernatural films. The target is for the audience to be young teenagers/adults as it is full of tension and suspense and for the younger generation this should bring a sense of excitement, this doesn’t however eliminate the older generation from seeing the film.

Certificate:

The film is rated 12a. 

Distributor: 

Synopsis:

Opening shot is the camera panning across a wall in a room filming photos hung up. The camera then slowly pans downwards towards a photo frame with a pamphlet next to it revealing it to be from a funeral in remembrance of the girl in the picture. The camera then journeys through the house listing the actor's names in the film. The camera travels through the house and introduces a group of friends hosting a memorial party for their friend who they begin talking about in memory. The group of friends continue their conversation before deciding to take a group selfie to mark the anniversary of their friend’s death. The group stand and pose and take the picture. As the camera flashes the scene cuts to the flash of a police report and taking a photo of a dead body (Piper’s). A montage runs of the police report whilst an audio plays of the police officer's notes and denouncing of the body's death. As the police complete their report, a CSI officer prepares a white cover to mask the dead body, as the CSI officer wafts the cover, the film cuts back to the memorial and the group are laying out a white cloth for a party game. The group start to play spin the bottle, as they spin the empty bottle the camera captures a dark silhouette pass by the door frame of the room they're in. The group carrying on playing and growing excited over the game unaware of the creepy shadow that lurks. Whilst the game is being played an audio of eerie whispers ring through the camera. Creepy music plays as the camera slows down the spinning of the bottle and the group’s smiles and facial expressions are slowed, the film then speeds up and the bottle stops spinning and points out of the room and appears to point at the balcony. The friends look up and the silhouette of Piper’s ghost is stood staring back at them. The friends are shocked in fear and stare blankly, frozen, unable to physically move themselves. The lights then flicker off but turn back on to reveal Piper missing, the friends are shook and hold onto each other frightened at what's just happened. Then all of a sudden shot glasses fall off the table and shatter, amidst the shards of glass one of the friends pick up a note reading ‘My death was because of you’. As one friend reads the note another picks up a photo of Piper with the 4 of them, as she stares at it the sound of breaking glass echoes around the room, frightened they look at each other for comfort. The friend with the photo then looks back to see it cracked with a silhouette of Piper stood at the opposite end of the room. With a loud ringing of eerie music the title sequence rolls. THE REMEMBERING

Suggested elements:

Flashbacks:

The flashbacks within the two minutes are significant as it indicates to the audience what the film is going to be based around and suggests the genre of the film (supernatural horror). It allows the audience to guess what has happened and entice them making the jump scares more jumpy.