Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Section 5: Treatment

‘Playground’

Playground will be an unusual film – In which teenagers take a holiday and make some drunken mistakes.

Concept

A group of teenagers meet up on holiday and accidentally kills a child while they are drunk, as they start to remember they start to see the child stalking them which slowly drives them insane which leads to them all committing suicide only to find the child didn't really die at all.

Synopsis


Six teenagers are all brought together when holidaying abroad, the strangers become friends but unfortunately during a goodbye party a drunken accident causes them to kill an innocent child and hide the body in the local playground. Awaking the next morning none of the teenagers remember anything of the previous night and continue to leave for home. They all go their separate ways and carry on their lives. A year later the child that they killed starts to appear dead in the playgrounds where the teenagers live. The teenagers don’t know about this until an item links them to the crime (one of the girls drops her phone next to the roundabout the child is found on). Each teenager starts to be terrorised by the child until they start to have flashbacks of the drunken night. The teenagers all start to slowly loose their minds and one by one commit suicide in exactly the same way (without knowing) and then the child that they ‘killed’ turns out to have not died after all. The End.

Opening Scene

Gang of innocent looking teenagers leave the park only for one of the girls to realise she’s lost her phone. They ring the phone to try and find it (in her bag?) camera follows the ring back into the empty park to find the phone lit up on the floor. The swings are moving along with the roundabout turning as the camera zooms in on the roundabout. This goes into a birds eye view of the playground showing the dead child draped over the roundabout. This then goes to the titles and returns to the park which has police tape around it.

Target Audience

The film should have a strong appeal for a young appeal – 15-25 year-olds who enjoy jumpy physiological thrillers.

To make it authentic to the way real teenagers behave it will include strong language, references to sex and drug use, as well as some violence but no actual graphic scene’s – resulting in this film having a 15 certificate.

Other Details

There will no famous or known stars in the film making the characters more relatable and believable. It will be set in a real environment on an ordinary playground for authenticity.


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