Treatment 1 – Full movie


Tomasz, James, Alex and Haydn

Title
 A Dream Comes True


Duration
 90 minutes

Target Audience

This film will be a 15 because the BBFC guidelines fit into what our film is going to show, as we do not show any sadistic or sexualised violence. Also, we do not show any discrimination, illegal drugs or nudity. However there is death shown in the 2 minutes of film, as the psycho kills 2 teenagers and violence is shown, making the film unsuitable to be rated a 12 or PG, therefore making our film suitable to be a 15 certificate.

we have made our target audience to be 15 – 30 year olds (Mixed gender) aimed at a national audience, of interest to people who are looking for a scare, appeals to those who like films such as Friday 13^th and Nightmare on Elm Street.

Synopsis/summary

Do you really want all your dreams to come true?

Tom has a nightmare of him running away from a psychotic masked killer (Conrad), his friends get killed by Conrad (he cuts one’s throat and stabs another to heart) while running. He wakes up when he sees Conrad’s face appearing in front of him. His friends wake him up shouting for him outside the window. They’re going to park to meet up with their other friends. They decide to go to camp out in a forest far away from home and Conrad hears about their plans and decides to follow them into the forest. In the forest they are having fun and party and getting drunk, then Conrad in a mask comes to them, starts to frighten them with a knife ( a big one drenched in blood), they run away (the sequence from dream). Tom stays alive as it was in his dream and is running away from Conrad with a mask on, he finds an abandoned house, accidentally smashing gas pipe as he runs away from Conrad. Tom finds out that the psycho in a mask is his ex friend Conrad, then Tom’s finds an old colt revolver, shoots Conrad and because of the gas leak, the house blows up. Everyone is dead and Conrad is not going to hurt anyone else.

Suggested Elements

Our film will start with being edited , so that the dream sequence looks kind of surreal with blurred edges of the shots, hinting to the audience that there is something unreal about the scene. As Tom wakes up, we will put in an audio track of a voice over of Tom, so that it's like we are hearing Tom's thoughts.

Near the end of the film in the real chase through the forest, we will edit in flash backs of Tom's dream, as he remembers the event from the beginning of the film. the shots will be edited in quick cuts reverting from the dream to Tom and back to the dream in a series of cross-cuts.