Eventually, after discussing many different ideas, we came up with a plot for our film trailer.
The treatment of a film is otherwise known as the synopsis, which encapsulates the significant events in the plot, involving the characters and what they are trying to achieve through the story. It begins with a premise, which involves the location, the characters, the time period and the main storyline.
Premise: A recluse, beginning at a new school, develops overwhelming jealousy over a fellow students life, causing her to think dramatically and violently.
Treatment/synopsis
• Mindy Grey seems at first like an average 17 year old school girl. She is portrayed as shy when being first introduced to her new 6th form by the school head of year, Mrs Goodall.
• Mindy tries to adapt to her new school, but is finding it quite difficult. She makes a new friend, Riley, who is at first seen as quite an airhead but nevertheless friendly and ready to help Mindy cope with being the new girl.
• Riley introduces Mindy to her and Reuben's friends, who are outgoing and loud; the exact contrast of quiet and reserved Mindy. However, Reuben Thomas becomes friends with her. But it is not enough.
• Oblivious to her new found friends, Mindy begins to feel jealous of Reuben and the girls he hangs out with. She wants him to herself
• One day at school Mindy overhears Reuben arguing with one of Riley’s best friends, Stella. It becomes apparent that Reuben had been cheating on Riley the whole time.
• Mindy is caught eavesdropping and this escalates into a series of disappearances of Stella and other people from their friendship group.
• Riley and Mindy then try to discover who is behind the disappearances, until clues suggest Mindy could be behind the killings.
• The last girl to “survive”, Riley battles against time to uncover the mystery of the 6th form murders, while desperately trying not to get caught herself, fearing that she knows too much.
. Mindy hunts down Riley and is about to stab her from behind, when Reuben dives out to defend her, getting knifed himself. Suddenly, Mindy feels a sharp stabbing pain in her side. She turns round to see Riley on the other side of the room. There is no one else there. Mindy realises that she has been imagining Reuben because she is schizophrenic and to kill Reuben, she had to die as well. The proposed end shot is of Riley watching Mindy stab herself to death.
