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.