Task Five: Synopsis, Section 5: Treatment

Synopsis
Our thriller’s narrative follows two individuals who find comfort and support in each other’s company. One is a confused, neglected adolescent lad who is finding growing up harder than he thought it would be and the other is a middle aged psychotic living in the house next door. The lad has no real father figure in his life, excluding his mother’s drunken mess of a boyfriend who often would rather hand out a beating than some fatherly advice. The boy’s murderous new neighbour finds that there may be alternatives to killing people for his kicks through the friendship with the boy, which is the first non killing fun he’s experienced in his highly troubled life.The mid section of the film shows how both characters learn from one another, the lad learns some life lessons about only being able to trust himself in the world while the films killer struggles with his inner demons in an attempt to form a relationship with a female character rather than killing her. The tension in the film is created because the audience understands the neighbour is a murderer from early on, and is therefore on edge waiting to see if a major character will be killed will be killed when in his company. After a few false scares, the kill will come at an unexpected moment to the audience.




Treatment

Killer house: Killer cleans his house to cover murder tracesChanging room: Football coach shouts at football team for playing badly. Jack Forde defends his team but ends up being kicked off the team.Estate: Jack walks through his estate, bumps into his mate. He walks past his killer neighbours and sees the ‘for sale’ sign in his bin.Jack’s house: Jack gets verbal abuse off his mother and her lousy boyfriend Carl. He then goes to sulk in his room. He spots killer leaving the house next door in his car.Killer’s car: Killer drives around until its dark and eventually pulls up to a sandwich restaurant. A cut shows that time passes and he spies on a girl who’s sat across the restaurant. Killer makes notes which indicate he wants to kill her.Girl’s apartment: Girl from restaurant is going up stairs of her apartment block whilst being stalked by the killer, but he ends up handing her the keys she didn’t know she dropped at the restaurant. They have a conversation but he does not kill her. He kills someone in an opposite apartment instead.Jack’s back garden: Jack is kicking a ball in his garden but it goes over the killer’s fence. Jack gets mad but is relieved to see the killer throw the ball back. After a conversation the scene cuts to the killer’s front room swiftly.Killer’s front room: Killer and kid some drugs and have a conversation which gets deep into Jack’s personal troubles, the killer obviously does not reveal his troubles. The killer should say intimidating with a cold stare that he wants to show Jack something, but the scene cuts to them playing a computer game which they both enjoy.Jack’s home: Jack goes home and lies on bed, editing will show night turn to morning without Jack sleeping and he swiftly gets ready for school. On the way out he drops his school bag and the killer helps him put the books back in it, after a brief chat the scene cuts to the killer’s front room.Killer’s front room: The two share drugs again. Killer offers advice to Jack to never trust anyone, and to never say aloud that he hates things, he tells him to keep things inside and to use bad feelings as comforting things. The seriousness of the killers tone at first makes Jack look scared, but we understand that he appreciates the killer’s time. The killer leaves abruptly saying he has to get some work done.Girl’s workplace: The killer visits the girl he’d stalked at her workplace, like she previously had invited him to do so. The killer witnesses that the girl’s boss is mistreating her verbally but she cannot fight back because of her lack of self esteem and strength. After she leaves to finish work, the killer gives the boss a very cold look, to the point where his face is almost red. We understand that the killer wants to kill the boss there and then.Killer’s home: Killer and girl talk back at his house; he makes meal and provides booze. He looks genuinely touched by the fact that she’s a nice girl who’s mistreated in society because she’s quiet and appears to be weak for her age. The two find that they understand each other, and the audience presume that the two have sex.Woods: The killer and Jack are in the woods; the killer hands Jack a rifle and tells him to shoot it saying that it’s a great way of dealing with issues. Jack implies at what he’s shooting is his mother’s boyfriend, and later says he’s pretending he’s shooting at his mum too. When it comes to the killers turn to shoot, he hesitates, but however goes on to shoot eventually.Jack’s home: After Jack returns, a huge fight breaks out between his mum and her boyfriend, leading him to step in, only to receive a beating from Carl. This quick scene then cuts to the morning after with Carl walking out of the back with a bag of clothes and being closely watched by the killer from next door. Jack comes out soon after and looks over to the killer who sees his bruises. Jack sees his neighbours upset by the sight and he decides to turn back in.Outside pub: The killer stands keeping himself warm outside a pub which we understand is where Carl will be. After providing some random person from the pub with a cigarette when he is asked to, the killer spots Carl leaving and decides to let the random man keep the entire pack. Killer trails Carl throughout the estate in secret. This scene then cuts to Jack’s room.Jack’s room: Jack and his mate are chilling out, but the mate says something which Jack would normally let slip but instead gives his mate a mouthful about how insensitive the comment was. In the end, the mate decides to get up and go because he’s a little scared.Estate: The killer is still following Carl and starts to taunt him from behind. When Carl stands up for himself, the killer murders him in a fit of rage and then drags the body down an alley. The editing will show that it’s later in the night and Jack’s mate is wandering the streets. We feel that he will be attacked but he isn’t.Girl’s workplace: As the killer’s girlfriend’s boss is locking up the place, killer surprises boss, intimidates him by speaking some rather comical gibberish and then the editing skips to a shot of the killer sat down smoking in the workplace staff room, there is blood on his hands and we presume that he’s killed the boss off screen.Football training grounds/changing room: Jack, whilst hooded smashes up the football training grounds late that night and ends up running back home after doing so. Once far away he takes the hood down and he appears to look troubled, and also disappointed in himself.Killer’s house: The morning after, Jack knocks on the killer’s house and requests to smoke with the killer again. The killer is uncomfortable around Jack now as he is constantly feeling the urge to kill, when in the kitchen he says for the second time in the film he has something to show Jack, and then opens up a cupboard which has his Carl’s body in it, but because Jack’s in the other room he obviously doesn’t know what the killers talking about, killer asks Jack to leave for his own safety.Girl’s apartment: The killer looks distressed when at his girlfriend’s but he clearly still likes her. He puts a video on of him killing her boss in a state of a nervous breakdown, he tells her to run out of the apartment for her own safety, which she does, but unfortunately he catches up with her and chokes her on the stairway. Once she’s dead the distressed look on his face goes away and he looks normal again.Jack’s room: Jack apologises to his mate on the phone and realises that his methods of dealing with his stress have just made him a worse person. When seeing that the killer is not home he decides to get his game back from his house.Killer’s house: Jack gets in through killers window and walks through house to find his game. He stumbles across Carl’s body, the boss’ body and the apartment man’s body. To the audience’s surprise the killer’s girlfriend’s body is also there, showing that the killer has returned home and is in the house. After a tense walk through the house, a chase between the two begins which leads outsides.Woods: Jack runs through the woods where he was taught how to shoot, whilst being chased by the killer. After tripping over, Jack gives up trying to escape. The killer asks if Jack could turn around so that he does not have to look at him while he aims the rifle. Jack does so, but the killer shoots himself.