Treatment 2 - Marnia

Treatment 2 - Marnia:

It’s the end of a busy week at college for three girls called Lola, Elizabeth and Harriet. The three seventeen year olds are deciding what to do over the weekend during school on a Friday afternoon. They are all in mixed minds on what or where they should go until Elizabeth suggests a manner house down in Sunbury where her parents stayed one year. Harriet is happy to go along with idea however Lola is not too sure whether it’s worth the long journey. A little while later Ingrid (A FRIEND OF LOLAS BUT DOES NOT GET ON TOO WELL WITH HARRIET AND ELIZABTETH) comes over and sits with the three girls “what are you girls up to?”  She says politely. A quick shot reverse shot between Ingrid and Elizabeth who are bickering which normally happens. The next clip is Lola suggesting that Ingrid joins them on their weekend retreat.

The girls all decided to be ready and head down to Sunbury for around 6ish on that Friday night where Harriet will be driving them down there. This is all a bit of a rushed decision however Elizabeth in convinced that it’s a great idea to “spontaneous”. This is revealed over an establishing shot of Harriet’s house where they will meet. The next few clips are of the girls laughing, singing and dancing on the car journey down to Sunbury. (At this point everyone is jolly and will are still set in the Equilibrium stages.)

The Girls arrive at the retreat around half 9. It’s very dark out and the lamppost light are very dim and fields and greenery surround them so it’s pretty secluded. A establishing of the manner house is added as this where the girls will be staying for the next two days and where events will change the friendship between them all.

The four girls are taken to their rooms, which they had booked very last minute. All the staff seem very polite and friendly to the girls. Ingrid offered to grab the bags from the car. The next few scenes are the three girls in their hotel rooms mucking about while listening to music. Elizabeth secretly brought a few bottles of different spirits so that the girls could have a good time and it also is a distraction from a stressful time at school with exams. Harriet is not too sure on the whole drinking idea, there is then a close up shot where Ingrid is staring at the spirits. – This is the moment of disequilibrium as she can used it at her advantage.

IT around eleven o’clock now and the girls have all done there fair share of shots, this has taken its tall on them – a long shot of the girls pouncing around the hotel room with relatively loud music. At this point Ingrid and Elizabeth have has a little tiff about the sleeping arrangement for the next few days which developed in to them falling out – this heightens the emotions and turns in to a bitter atmosphere.Ingrid is upset with what has happened, as she knows it will effect the next two days, she decided to go for a walk. Harriet tells Elizabeth to go after her, which is portrayed as long shot of both girls.

 After this, the next few clips are very fast and jumpy with cuts and tone cards between the actions. Includes tracking shots to make it look realistic, high angle shots for vulnerability, hand held camera shot and point of view. These camera angles are all used in the killing of the two girls Elizabeth and Lola. (The audience see some lead ups to murders which involves only one weapon which is a hammer however the murders are not revealed in the trailer) Nothing is revealed about Harriet, as there has to be some sort of surprising element to the blot, the audience also do not know what happens to Ingrid (The main protagonist).

The trailer ends with a lot of editing techniques involved, including jumpy cuts of blackouts or fade in to blackout and with tone cards. This will all hopefully go to the beat of some music or some sort of non-diegetic sound. Including a clip at the end of the trailer after trailer credits will leave suspense for the audience; this could be a clip of one of the murders or even a quick shot of Ingrid that has not been shown in the trailer already.