Planning - Writing A Treatment For Your Chosen Opening

This is our treatment for our opening to the horror movie. 

• We are going to start off with an establishing shot of the forest.
• We are then going to have a tilt shot from the feet going up, the shot is of two school children walking home on a Friday afternoon. 
• There is then a tracking shot of them walking through the forest. Both of the students are listening to music through there headphones so there will be diagetic sound of the music they are listening to, however, both of their phones die, this will be use of a horror film convention. 
• There will then be diagetic sound of wood being chopped but the sound will increase as the students come closer to The Lumberjack. 
• The students then stop and look around to see where the sound is coming from. This will be a point of view shot and which pans around their location you will be able to see The Lumberjack in the distance. 
• The Lumberjack then begins to follow them, there is a close up/tracking shot of their feet as they run away, whilst running away there will also be a point of view shot of them running through the trees to try to get away from. 
• The male character stops because he is fatigued but as he turns The Lumberjack throws the the axe towards his head. This is when a reverse shot will be used to show that The Lumberjack is behind them, in the background you will see The Lumberjack preparing to throw his axe. The camera then follows the axe with a quick panning shot and then the male character ducks as the axe hits the tree. He then runs in a different direction abandoning the girl.
• The girl continues running away from the Lumberjack but then using a horror film convention the girl will trip and fall, this will be shown by a closeup of her feet as she falls. The Lumberjack appears above her and at the camera cuts to a point of view shot as The Lumberjack swings the axe towards her head. For effect we are going to hit a watermelon with the axe to create the sound effect of her head being hit by the axe.
• The camera then cuts back to the boy then spots an abandoned house and tries to escape to it, the shots used are point of view and tracking shots. When the character approaches the house he hides behind the entrance of the house. When stood in the doorway he looks around the house. He then turns and looks through the doorway to see if The Lumberjack is there, he sees him run past so he is relieved and the non-diabetic music loses tension. However, when he turns to look again the lumberjack is standing there and the non-diagetic sound will be a jumpscare sound which will be loud and quite high pitch to add to the effect of the jumpscare. The camera then cuts to a point of view shot of the axe being swung at his head, then the screen will cut to black.