Film Trailer: Treatment

Treatment

Beth Graham

Film Trailer- Deranged

Plot/Genre:

Deranged is a typical movie from the horror genre that intends to leave the audience afraid like any other great horror movie would do. The thing that makes it striking to the audience is that a child is the main character and the storyline revolves around him although other films of the horror genre have done this previously, it has been an effective way to unnerve people as quite often I have read that that one of the scariest characters in horror movies are children as they are not naturally portrayed as dark mysterious characters they are more often than not seen as being sweet and innocent.  

The story is based around this child, Adam who has lost his parents when he was a baby this will be shown in the trailer by a series of flashbacks shown in black and white to show the difference in time. Later in this boys lifetime he is now living with his grandparents. He leaves his home unnoticed and goes to visit the graveyard where his parents are buried late in the evening he then hears voices in the graveyard, thinks there not real and runs away from the graveyard and ends up getting lost on the way back. He ends up in a forest and hears the voices repeatedly; he is confused and frightened the voices stop  eventually, Adam is tormented but chooses to ignore them and he is found by his grandparents and brought home. Over the next few months the voices come back and adam decides to tell his grandparents what is happening to him but they don’t believe him. The voices start to control him and his actions reflect this, as he has changed and is no longer himself, he turns on his family as he is transfixed with these voices that he can here but no one else does, as his actions change people are beginning to believe him and try to help him but he is already changed and as a result of this goes on to commit crimes of different scales. We have put this plot together based on elements of other horror/Thriller movies such as “the others” and “Orphan” these are our main influences. Although some of the issues with using a child actor for the making of this may prove to be controversial but we thought if other films like this have been successful then it might not be too much of a problem. The audience for this film would be between 12 and 25 year olds as this is the audience that mostly watches the horror genre, the film would be given a 12 or 15 certificate so that the film is opened up to lower age ranges this is because the content will not be that graphic and is suitable for this age range.

How The Trailer Will be Put Together:

The trailer will feature a series of fast paced shots with fade to blacks separating the shots, this is to give the trailer length as well as darken the mood, These fade to blacks may have small bits of writing to help the audience understand what is going on in terms of the plot. There will be quite a few close ups of the child to accentuate that he is the main character. We have also seen on other trailers that right at the end after the main title of the film comes up there is a suprising shot afterwards that the audience will not expect and will jump at. I was thinking of including into this in our trailer as I think it would be effective in creating the tone of the film as well as making the genre audience.