"THE RUNNER" Cast

There are only two characters in our film. the first character who is playing Jessica Barnes is called Tailah Red Hudson.

"THE RUNNER" TREATMENT

Unfortunately the person in our group that was allocated the task of writing the treatment did not upload it onto their blog so i could not upload it onto my own.

"THE RUNNER" Script

New Script
Two girls jogging through a local park on the main pathway.
Scene opens with a close up on their feet to show their jogging attire.
The camera pans upwards so that the audience can see the full clothing and faces of the main characters.
The camera does a close up shot on a mobile phone calling a number.
A medium shot on one of the jogging characters and she pulls her phone out of her pocket and the audience see a close up shot on her mobile phone where the screen reads “Witheld Number Calling”.
The camera alternates back to the phone of the unknown caller and the screen reads “Call Ended”.
The audience then see an over the shoulder shot of the unknown caller from behind the trees and it focuses in on the jogging girls.
Girl 1: Argh
Girl 2 begins to stretch
Girl 2: What’s wrong?
Girl 1 also begins to stretch
Girl 1: Someone keeps on calling me and just breathing down the phone.
Girl 2: Oh don’t worry about it, it’s probably just some kids.
Girl 1 looks very distressed and speaks hesitantly.
Girl 1: You’re probably right.
Girl 2: As always…..
Girl 2 smiles sarcastically.
Girl 2: Anyway, let’s keep going, we have two miles left.
Girl 1: Oh really? Argh!
The girls jog off together.
There is a full body shot of the girls jogging off from behind the shoulder of the person behind the trees.

AGE CERTIFICATE

we decided to make our film a a certificate 15. ths is based on the bbfc's certification criteria. as it is a psychological horro they may be some violence but the film will not dwell to much on the violent act but more how it relates to the story. this makes the violence less imitable for the younger audiences. there is also no glamourised violence in our film, it is more a thing to be feared of for the victim and the audience. as there is some violence in our film and maybe some strong language there is a need to make it higher than a 12 as young people may still feel some fear from the violence. we feel that 15 year olds we be mature enough for the violent content of the film.

filming schedule

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script breakdown

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WARDROBE

we thought that it would be a good idea for both the girls to wear hoodies as they are running in the park and it is quite cold. these hoodies are often associated with excercise as the person wearing the hoodie sweats alot therefore loses weight. we chose leggings as they often give the person wearing them alot of freedom when they do excercise and often associated with women doing excercise. the trainers in the video are also associated with people doing exercise. also as it is in a park it is very durable. the clothes are also commonly associated with females doing excercise.

you can see from this woman running in a park she is wering a similar attire to that of what we have chosen in our film. she is wearing a hoodie, trainers, and spandex trousers which bare resmeblence to leggings.

pictures of location

we chose this location as we felt that this location reflected the type of opening we were going for. in the films i have analysed some of them wer shot in public settings i.e hide and seek which was set in a park, the strangers followed a family on a public road, the hills have eyes is set in a desert, 1408 follows a man as he goes from the derelict area outside to inside a hotel. we also chose to set it in the daytime as many of our films were set in daytime i.e the hills have eyes, the strangers, hide and seek, drag me to hell and funny games. another reason why we chose this park is because of the trees as we can get a the message across that we are in public setting were anyone can be the killer and also the trees are good enough to film behind to get a point of view shot which makes it look more sinister.


the fact that she is in a park in the day time also suggests to the audience that she is more vulnerable as someone is watching her run on her daily not only in the daytime but also in a public setting. this brings a closer relationship to the audience as many of our audience may also go for morning jogs.

although the park may be in a public setting it also contains bushes a trees for people to hide behind which also makes it more vulnerable for an unsuspecting victim. this can be seen in the long shot.

target audience

As a group we have decided to give our film a 15 certificate. Most of the films reviewed hold a 15 certificate.

• Drag me to hell has a 15 uk film certificate.
• The hills have eyes has an 18 uk film certificate.
• The stangers had a uk crtificate of 15.
• Identity had a uk film certificate of 15.
• Identity had a uk certificate of 15.
• Funny games had a 18 uk film certificate.

typically the reason why films are given the 15 certificate by the bbfc is because they may have made crtiereia seen in the films i have reviwed. there is often a strong or menacing threat in psychological horrors these are deemede acceptable to be 15 unless they are sadistic or sexualised. also in many psychological horrors when there is dangerous behaviour it is not dwelled upon in enough detail to be copied. also weapons are not easily glamourised. funny games is a film that goes against the conventions as the violence is highly sadistic which is shown in its certificate. our target audience is males between 18 and 25 as it has been seen that they are the highest number of people that watch horror films. this can be seen in our film as the protagonist uses his computer to research his victim, as he is using a computer it suggests to the viewer that he is young as he is on a social networking website.

Script

Film Credits - Director and main two actors are shown.

Camera pans over a dirty apartment, the bedroom. It is darkly lit with the only light coming from the static of the television, high angle shot. The camera focuses on dirty plates and a "Springfield Mental Hospital" uniform overall.

Voiceover
Springfield Mental Hospital patient 52961 Kieran Spooner has escaped from his cell and is suspected still to be in the surrounding South London Area. He is a caucasian male of medium build with short blonde hair and is expected to be dangerous to those he meets due to his lack of mental stability and obsessive tendencies, please call Springfield on 020 8682 6000

Kieran gets into the bath and stares at the images on the wall against him. The camera focuses on images of four girls, printed from 'Facebook' . Three of the girls have had their faces crossed out with a red marker. Kieran begins to bathe himself.

The camera focuses on the image of a girl in the centre of the wall, she is with her boyfriend in the picture, the boyfriend has his face crossed out with a red marker.

The scene cuts to the title of the film. The remaining credits are shown

TREATMENT

Treatment

Our scene opens in a man's apartment. The camera pans along the surroundings of the apartment using a medium bird's eye shot. The panning shot allows the audience to see used plates and dishes in addition to an overall suit which is labelled "Springfield Hospital", this suggests to the audience that he does not have mental stability and also fits in with the conventions of other psychological horror films by setting it in a city such as London. This has been shown in films such as "The Sixth Sense" and "Rosemary's Baby" which have urban city settings.

The camera then pans into the bathroom of the apartment where we see the main character, _______ bathing. He is staring across the room at a white wall across from him plastered with images of the same girl, printed off her facebook account. The white background has been used to symbolise madness and a lack of sanity to be represented through the main character. The faces of the other people in the tagged photos of the desire of his affections have been scribbled out with a biro.

Whilst the audience become familiar with the main character the soundtrack played in the background is a remix of the song "Going in for the kill" by contemporary artist La Roux. We have chosen this track because it will attract our target audience which is teenagers, due to her being a success in that field, and the remix also uses very high pitched and extended sounds which can be used to build the tension which we have seen being used in our research of Psychological horrors.

The character from the opening scene is in fact an escaped patient from London mental hospital "Springfield" and has developed an obsession with the woman in the photos he has plastered on his bathroom wall. She lives locally to him, and once gave him some spare change for his oyster card, he mistook this common act of courtesy for affection and has convinced himself that she is in love with him, when she does not in fact know who he is. He begins to stalk those close to her, such as her boyfriend, and close family members, and steals a possession of theirs to target his hatred towards them as he believes that they are the obstacles stopping him being with her.

He eventually creates a shrine, his whole bathroom dedicated to her, and those close to her, until he tries to kill her and in fact ends up killing himself in the process. This is typical of psychological horrors because it ends in one death which is built upto instead of many pointless deaths throughout the film.

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