Treatment [follow these scenes when creating the film]

Context Paragraph

Film treatment is a document describing a detailed synopsis of the film, of which contains all the key elements of the film such as; important scenes, main characters, and crucial plot points and its written as a story not as a scripts.

It gives the audience a possible insider to the film and could pull them in further as it may intrigue them even more.

FILM TREATMENT 

Overall

Film Title  

It Follows 

Logline

The film is based on a young teenager who is getting followed by a unknown figure that is continuously following him, it gets closer and closer until...

Plot Summary - Summarize Concept

Act 1 - Car scene; main character driving during dark hours, radio crackles out plays disturbing music, trying to fix radio then looks up to see a figure in the road, swerves out of way, turns back to look back at the figure, however its vanished.

An intense feeling overcomes his body and then looks in mirror and the antagonist is there sat in the middle back seat - after this happens the protagonist is then driving home in their car - in a worried and confused state of mind (camera shot of car driving away) then Title Screen plays out - after title screen the screen fades into black. 

Act 2 - Protagonist then gets home from the drive and runs out. He hurriedly goes to front door and locks all doors in house in a frantic manor and continues to close all the curtains.

Camera shot of outside the house (back garden) whilst the protagonist is closing curtains, then cuts to the protagonist running upstairs and goes then to sleep, camera is following closely behind the character but when protagonist goes to bed the camera rewinds it's movements going backwards from bed down the stairs then through the conservatory doors and then goes to the closing shot of antagonist standing outside of the house in the back garden - the camera can only see a figure standing up against wall with hood up and head down but then near to the end of the shot the antagonist slowly looks upwards towards the camera with the mask on - antagonizing music plays.

Act 3 - Protagonist then goes to sleep - dreams about the figure following them through the woods as they're running away, camera stays still as it had been dropped, flicks on and off as antagonist gets closer and closer till they go up to the screen and shows their mask but not true identity, main character wakes up scared.

Act 4 - Protagonist goes for a midnight run all seems to be flowing, he puts airpods in his ears and then goes for a run in the dark with lamp posts shining (camera placed on walls as protagonist goes past/ or held in hand as focused on the protagonist running but then slowly pans whilst following them), at the start of the run all is normal, however near to the end of the run the antagonist is shown within the background of each shot, he starts from far away and ends up closer and closer, however the protagonist never sees him.

Act 5 - Ending Scene - Wakes up from night before haunted by the figure, goes into bathroom and intense music continues, opens up mirror, audience is expecting something to be there however nothing occurs and intense music dies out. But main character reaches into cupboard and camera is placed within cupboard and killer is stood in bath staring at main character from behind however as soon as main character close the cupboard nothing there and then goes back to bedroom and puts on tv, however the camera pans out slowly and the antagonist is underneath the bed, intense music dies out into complete silence, as camera pans to the stairs and slowly walks down them as muffled screams can be heard.

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Key Characters 

Main character - Thomas Ballington - Scared Character 

Killer - Alfie Hill - Mysterious 

Explanation paragraph -

The final paragraph of the treatment wraps up the narrative, it states what the ending is and how the premise concludes, what happens to all the characters and what they learn (if anything) here is where you tie up any loose ends and give the reader a sense of what will now happen to this film world.