Three Act Structure...

Act One:

It starts off blurred and focuses properly as it zooms into young David’s (Thomas Knight) face whilst he is working on his science project. He is struggling to work as he keeps having thoughts of weird & terrible events in his life, these will be shown as flashbacks. These flashbacks will represent the abuse that David suffered as a child, and will show his parents arguing, fighting, crying and the slamming of doors will give the audience an insight into David’s mind. It will also give the audience a bit of knowledge into what he had been through. He will then leaves the room for some air and time to think- this will be a medium shot.

Act Two:

The second scene will show a series of clips which build up a montage to signify David growing through time. The trailer goes from black and white to colour which will indicate change in time. The next shot is where David is sat on an empty bus, and see's himself walking past, this will be a point of view shot-reverse-shot of David on the bus and himself walking past the bus- the two personalities collide, and come together in a clever transaction. The next shot will be a medium shot of David walking to the park which will follow a shot-reverse-shot of him walking towards isolated bench. The sense of being alone and vulnerability needs to be indicated, so the shot of the park late at night will give of a lonely vibe. A long shot will then show a girl walking a dog in the park which will be followed by a close up shot showing them both talking.

Act Three:

In this section, we will show the effect of what David went through as a child, as his anger and frustration begins to show through his strange behaviour. This act is going to be very upbeat with a fast tempo of shots, aswell as music to set the scene, ensuring suspence fpr the audience. There will be flashing images to show confusion and the mental aspect of the film. The final shot of this act will be a shot of david looking into the mirror, he see's his younger self in the mirror as he turns to leave the reflection stays the same, it fades into a black out, with end credits. We will do this to show David's state of mind and split personality as well as insuring interest from the audience. 

Audience Analysis

Age:

• The age range for our film is 15-25 the reason for this being the characters in the film are of a similar age so therefore it can possibly be relatable the issues show in the film and allow them to grow feelings towards the characters and understand there emotions.
• While trying to decide the age range for our film, we watched a few film trailers on YouTube to see what films were similar to ours, we found Orphan.

Ethnicity:

• Our trailer includes Caucasian cast but it will appeal to to a wide range of ethnic groups as many mainstream productions continue to sideline mainstream talent but dont seem to suffer comercially for this.

Gender:

• The lead role is a male named David. He eventually turns into a killer and is quite violent so he would appeal to males rather than females. Some viewers wouldnt find a female killer as frightening as a male one.

Nationality/Religon:

• Our characters are from the West Midlands, Birmingham, the location isnt a hugely important factor for our film. The fact that the film is produced by english students, may suggest that the
• film would only be popular with a younger english audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_thriller  This helped me look at target audience and age ratings from films of a similar genre.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22176569/Target-Audience-and-Genre-Research

http://www.slideshare.net/CharlotteEmmaVicki/target-audience-of-thrillers

Treatment Draft

David is 11 he’s never been very popular and likes to keep himself to himself other kids at school would tease him for the simple fact that he is different, they would also tease him about the past of parents he wouldn’t speak to anyone and wouldn’t leave his bedroom except for when he had to go to school. His parents would shout at him and ask him why he couldn’t be normal like the other kids they would often beat him whilst under the heavy influence of alcohol and wouldn’t sometimes leave him on his own to fend for himself. He lived in a world were violence, drinking, abuse, shouting and the slamming of doors was a regular occurrence- he had nobody but himself. Davids parents passed away when he was 13 years old in a traffic accident, it is believed that they were both highly under the influence of drugs and alcohol. David didn’t have any family that he knew of therefore he was sent to an orphanage where his life took a drastic turn.

It started on a cold winter night, David was sitting in his room working on a science project, but how could he concentrate- with everything happening? All he could hear was screaming and shouting coming from downstairs so he decided to go for a walk to clear his head and get some space. As he was walked over to a isolated bench he wondered if anyone would ever befriend him or even take a little time to ask him if he was alright, suddenly he hears footsteps coming towards him, a middle aged man was walking his dog and the dog wondered towards David, conversation struck between the man and David which was regretted shortly after by the man