Treatment
Working title of film: Stereotypes
Tagline of film: Do you conform?
Production name: Obscure productions
Medium: Audio - Visual
Duration of product: 5 mins
Certification: 12A
Target audience: 12-17 year olds – both female and male, religion: any, level of education –
secondary/ sixth form, social class: all, social grade: E, our audience psychographic are a mixture of
explorers and succeeders. Hobbies – watch psychological horror films.
Synopsis of film:
Start: Two of the friends along with Goth girl go to media class and learn about stereotypes of
people. Three girls tease and pick on Goth girl;
Middle: after school the three friends take a shortcut home and go through the cemetery. Suddenly
something happens to girl 1 she is found dead unexpectedly and they blame it on Goth girl as she is
found at the scene of the murder.
End:
Main characters: 4
1) Girl 1 – leader of the group – bossy and talkative, first one to die
2) Girl 2 - appears to be one of the friends
3) Girl 3 – annoying and also bossy
4) Girl 4 – Goth girl: mysterious character, doesn’t speak much, gets teased at school by the
first three girls
Key scenes:
Scene 1: Spilt screen of the four girls getting ready for school. An establishing panning shot of the
secondary school. Three girls tease Goth girl at school.
Scene 2:
LONG SHOT and TRACKING backwards of the three out the four girls are walking to school. Three of
them are chatting. Girl 2 turns her head back and looks at girl 4 and gives a slight awkward smile to
girl 4. Then through THE OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT we see Goth girl returning back the slight
awkward smile and looks away. An ESTABLISHING PANNING SHOT of the secondary school. Scene
cuts to classroom
Scene 3: Girl 2 and Goth girl in Media lesson learning about stereotypes. Teacher handing out a
sheet with a list of stereotypes. The class chatting amongst themselves. Girl 2 looking at the sheet
quietly. Scene cuts to playground
Scene 4: A LOW ANGLE and LONG SHOT from the bottom of the stairs. We see the three girls coming
down the stairs. They go next to the walls and there is a MID LONG SHOT where they are talking
about her Goth girl and start pointing at her and making fun out of her. Over the shoulder shot from
behind the Goth girl, she realises that they are making fun of her.
Scene 5: Three girls are walking home, shown through a LONG SHOT they decide to take a short cut
through the cemetery.
Scene 6: An ESTABLISING SHOT in the cemetery where we see the gothic girl listening to her
headsets. LONG SHOT of three girls walking and talking to each other. Girl 1 gets a phone call,
through the CLOSE UP SHOT of the phone and see it’s her mum calling. Girl 1 walks towards the
bushes to receive the call, shown through a MID-CLOSE UP SHOT. Girl 2 and Girl 3 waits for her for
three minutes. CLOSE UP SHOT of Girl 3 worried and waiting, we hear a loud scream from Girl 2.
TRACKING SHOT of Girl 3 running towards the bushes and sees the Girl 2 standing next to Girl 1’s
body. Girl 2 looks back and sees Goth girl and points at her. Goth girl looks shocked whilst listening
to her headsets.
Scene 7: LONG SHOT of corridor, rumours are going around that Goth girl has murdered girl 1. CLOSE
UP shot of random girl 1. CLOSE UP SHOT of random girl 2
Scene 8: CLOSE UP SHOT of a piece of paper with the list of names and stereotypes, we see Girl 1
name crossed out and the next name (Girl 3) on the list being circled.
Scene 9: WIDE SHOT of the house party. MID- CLOSE UP SHOT of Goth girl walking in the room.
Everyone looks at her and gives her stares and then they move on. Party goes on. We hear a loud
screaming coming from a room at the back of the house. MID-CLOSE UP SHOT of Random girl. Goth
girl is not present in the room, some run to see what happened.
Scene 10: In one of the bedrooms, Girl 3 is seen dead on the bed stabbed. Everyone was looking
around for Goth girl, as they suspected her again. MID CLOSE UP SHOT we see Goth girl coming out
of the bathroom. CLOSE UP SHOT of her looking shocked unaware of the situation
Scene 11: MID- CLOSE UP SHOT of Girl 2 dragging Goth girl into a dark room. BLANK SCREEN – hear a
chair being dragged. MID- CLOSE UP SHOT of Goth girl tied up to a chair in a dark room. LOW KEY
LIGHTING is used. Goth girl is struggling to get out of the chair
