Treatment

Title- Charcoal

Duration- 5 minutes

Distributor- Future Shorts

Audience- Teenagers, both male and female, 15+, we have stuck to the guidelines of the bbfc classification for a 15 film as we have strong language in the film and there is mild violence and threat while not being too graphic to make it an 18.

Synopsis/summary- two girls go into an art studio, they see something and get split up, one of them gets stuck in a room and the lights cut out, meaning she has to search for a key she uses a camera flash to see but ends up dropping the key but the door is unlocked anyway. She runs down a hallway sees her friend in a doorway, they run together outside but then she gets hit round the head. She wakes up back in the building on a chair she sees the person with a knife, knocks over the chair, runs out a door to some stairs the third girl with knife tries to grab her but girl one moves out of the way and third girl falls down the stairs.

Unique techniques in our film- we used a gopro so that we could get better close up shots as it is smaller than the Sony HD1000 camera's so while there were parts that we needed to use the camera for match on action on the doors and pans, using the gopro meant that we could make shots like the falling down the stairs look more believable as we could move it around more to zoom in on the feet as they fall.
We used low lighting when the character walks through the corridor with the camera so that it gave the shot an eerie feeling and we took inspiration from film noir with the way that the shadows are used to create more suspense in our film.