Our Groups Thriller Treatment.

Today we were put into groups which included me, Millie and Rachel.

When we were put into our groups, we all had our separate ideas so we wanted to find a way to combine all the best aspects of each idea. All of our thriller ideas fitted into the genre of psychological thriller and we all really liked the idea of a visualisation of a mental breakdown. We all thought the protagonist should be female and a teenager, we wanted to play with the idea of portraying a decent into madness (simular to Black Swan) and we came up with ideas of how we can show this using different mediums.

Our final thriller treatment is as follows:

Final Thriller Treatment 

The scene begins with the girl experiencing disturbing flashbacks and past events that have previously been buried and are starting to be unearthed. The shots are filmed like a flicker between past and present; illusions in her mind which start to make her believe things that aren’t there suddenly are.

As the film progresses she continues to experience these memories that appear to come to life for her.  She talks to her family and they suggest she goes to see a therapist to discuss the possible root of her issues as it is starting to affect her daily life and mental state.

While visiting the therapist troubling realisations come to mind such as the fact that her parents, who she believed were her birth parents, are soon discovered to be her adopted guardians. She slowly starts to unpick her past which makes the flashbacks stronger in her mind; she starts to lose touch of what’s real and what’s not.

Finally the suppressed memories, with help of the therapist, start making more and more sense to both audience and protagonist and matching up with her visual flashbacks. She discovers her past with her birth mum and her sinister childhood, and ultimately why she ended up in an orphanage with adopted parents and was never told about it.

The tragic end to her mum, killing herself in the bath, and the young girl finding her lifeless body at a very young age becomes too much for the girl. She believes she is going insane, living a lie her whole life and having these highly disturbing ‘visions’ which won’t go away.

Driving the girl down a mental downwards spiral it becomes too much and she wishes to end her life, like her mother, by overdosing. As she lies down on her bed awaiting the end she has one last vision of her mum handing her a letter, as she reads the letter she begins to cry as it is the explanation she has been awaiting the whole time. She starts to panic as she no longer wants to end her life, but as she picks up the phone to call the ambulance she is taken over by crippling pains and convulsions. The drugs take control of her system and her life comes to a devastating end, mirroring her mother’s perverse suicide.