Our Film Treatment

This is a treatment of our group’s film. The plot to our story starts 50 years ago when a group of children are rehearsing a play at school and one of the girls gets killed by an unfortunate accident. The film then carries on to the present, where a new student attends the school and the ‘ghost’ comes back for revenge.

Note: The film begins with the name of the production companies and distributors’ etc fading up onto a black screen.

The film starts with a fade in to show some student’s rehearsing a school play. We also see the date fade in and out again over the action. A teacher who is watching the play asks to see the next scene, all of the students leave the stage apart from a girl as she is performing her solo piece. She starts to do so but part of the way through we hear a creak and the camera zooms in very fast to see the girl look up and the expression of horror on her face. The scene then turns black but we still hear the ‘bang’ of the object landing on and killing the girl. The title then scrolls up the black screen and turns red, the title then scrolls back down off the page like blood.

The next scene starts with the camera already zoomed in on the theatre lights and it zooms out and pans out to reveal some students rehearsing a play. The words ’50 years later’ appear at the bottom of the screen over the action. A teacher then enters the room (Mr Gibb) to see how the play is progressing. The camera then goes to a point of view shot to see his reaction. The camera then goes back to the students who are in a dance part of their play. As this is the last part of the play when the dance ends, the teacher stays to watch. The camera goes back to the teacher where we can see him applauding the students. He tells them to go home and come back to rehearse again the next day. 3 girls stay on the stage and begin to talk. They try to scare one of the new girls by telling her about the incident from 50 years ago when a ‘ghost’ kills a girl and the theatre has been haunted ever since. The girl then immediately doubts whether to do the play or not but the other girls laugh and tell her that it’s only a rumour making the new girl feel reassured. The lights all go off and we hear a door slam.

The next scene fades in to show a typical school day in a corridor. Hustle and bustle all around and groups of friends stood together. We see the two girls (Alice and Amy) with the new girl (Jane) still winding her up about the ‘ghost’ trying to scare her. Jane tries to seem as if it doesn’t bother but we can tell that it is. Jane then tries to keep away from them for the rest of the day.

The next scene is of the students rehearsing again. At the end of the play Alice and Amy both talk again about the ‘ghost’ to Jane but this time how they have been hearing things from the back room. The camera zooms in to show the expression on Jane’s face. More cast is introduced as the teacher has asked for more people in the play. These are 3 boys (Liam, James and Dan) who are introduced to Jane and join in with the rumour of the ghost. When the play has been rehearsed with the new characters, All the students leave the theatre apart from James, he stays to finish off tidying up. He goes to draw the curtains but finds that the rope is broke. As he tries to fix it he wraps some around his body. We see the curtains move slightly before being quickly pulled shut. The rope moves up around his neck and kills him instantly; the camera zooms out to show a long shot of the theatre. The scene then slowly fades out into darkness.

The next day all of the cast join the rest of the school in an assembly. The head teacher stands at the front and explains that the death of James was an accident and there is nothing to worry about. Rumours go around the school that the ghost is back to get revenge but the students don’t think it’s anything to worry about so organize to rehearsing their play that night. Before the end of the day we see Dan in a science lab doing an experiment using a bunsen burner. The camera shows a long shot of the lab to show that he is alone. We hear a creak and Dan goes to investigate, finding nothing he comes back to carry on. He takes of the lid of a flammable substance but someone had tampered with it to make it cover all over him. The camera then zooms in to show Dan catch on fire from the bunsen burner and die.

The next scene is cut in to show the rest of the group ready to rehearse, they wait for a short period to see if Dan would come but he didn’t so they decided he had gone home. The scene fades out and back in again to show all the students tired. The audience can tell from the fade in/out that they have just finished rehearsing. Amy leaves the rest of the group to finish off and walks back through the corridor towards her locker. When she arrives at her locker we hear another creak, the camera zooms in to a close up of Amy’s face. Amy goes looking for what happened, leaving her locker open, but couldn’t find anything so came back to her locker. She puts her head in to find a book she was looking for. We hear another bang but Amy just ignores it. Next we see the locker door slam beheading Amy. As her body falls to the floor we see a pool of blood on the floor. The other students hear the bang so go to see what it was. They find Amy dead on the floor with her head still in the locker. Alice sees a foot print in the blood so they all think the killer must have forgot. In a mad rush they decided to go and tell a teacher.

The next day Alice tries to get over her trauma by going to the salon to go on the sun bed and do her nails. She hears a creak just like all the others but because she had her music on she thought nothing of it. When she finishes the lights flicker on and off but she reassures herself that nothing can happen in her favourite place. She closes her eyes to hope that everything is ok. When she opens them again she sees a hooded figure stood in front of her she screams and tries to get away but the killer grabs her and throws her to the floor. The camera then shows the killers face but you can only see his mouth and it is smiling. The killer looks down at her and pauses for a moment. He then cuts her throat.

Meanwhile Jane and Liam are on their way down to see how Alice is; when they arrive they are greeted by the killer who is cleaning up his mess. They both run aimlessly away but end up in the theatre trapped with the killer behind them. The killer makes a quick slash and knifes Liam, he drops to the floor. The killer then turns to Jane who is pushed back against the wall. The lights are flickering and there is silence. The hooded figure pulls down his hood and takes off his hat to show his face. It is Mr Gibb. Jane and Mr Gibb have a discussion on why he did it. He told her that his play had been ruined by the students and the ghost was a good cover up. He then lifts his knife and puts it too her throat but Liam hadn’t been killed and had picked up the fire extinguisher. He put 3 heavy blows to Mr Gibbs head killing him.

The film ends with Liam and Jane walking down a dimly lit corridor we have a long shot of them walking down, when they reach the end they disappear and the screen goes black and the credits come up again just the same as the beginning.