Treatment

Influences

‘It Clown’ – Because it’s a film about a scary psychotic clown and it looks quite frightening and abnormal.

‘Scream 4’ – The slasher horror, same sub-genre and same settings for most of the locations.

‘Insidious’ – The use of intimidated children/ family in fear and the house playing a key factor and a prominant figure in the storyline.

Then when the clown arrives dark colours start to take over. In the room its virtually full dark, hardly any light to make it mysterious and scary.

High contrast, low saturation.

Structure/Scenes to include

Title/Production company

CCTV of criminal punching and dragging someone behind a dumpster/corner, with voice over from news reporter

Real clown man is attacked by killer, show on CCTV type footage.

New clown walk out of the van.

Shot of the parents opening the door to the clown

Straight to the back to start the party

Kids all crowd around the clown when he starts his “act”

She stays back away from clown while all other kids crowd around.

Little boy goes up stairs and finds a jack in the box

Starts to wind up the jack in the box

Cuts to the clown finding one of the kids and killing them

Back to the jack in the box kid

Finds the kids in sequence and kills them in the woods, park, walking to school and the party

Credits

Then final shot is the kid on the end of the bed with the jack in the box then the clown in the room comes into lighting and then takes a swipe for the kid

Credits/title/release date

Generic Conventions

Antagonist (clown)

Protagonist (Jennifer)

Final Girl (Jennifer)

Scream Queen (small female girl)

Knife as murder weapon

Characters/Stereotypes

Clown killer- vicious

Small girl- vulnerable

Parents- caring, oblivious

Friends at party

News reporter

Settings/Locations

In a fairly modern standard house as the main scene and location. Then within the house, the huge living room where all the children are and then the dark scary room in which it’s the child’s room with lots of toys etc.

Backgarden

News studio, park, van, party, woods, stalking location

Props/Costumes

Normal parents clothing, children in party gear and hats etc.

The whole clown’s costume, wigs, make-up.

Blood

Jack in a box

White Van

Suit for news reporter

Interactive whiteboard

Cinematography/Lighting

Use of Sound

Children noises, emphasised screaming.

Jack in a box theme tune playing over trailer starting at a certain point to add intensity and fear.

Editing and Effects

Fast cuts, Eerie colours, High contrast, Low saturation, Sound beds

Title screens/Typography

Creepy large fairground type font to relate to the clown. Fast title scenes.

Target Audience/Uses and Gratifications/Points of Identification

Teenagers and young adults because it’s like child hood memories having fun and then the impact of the clown, which many people are frightened of and it plays on their own fears. There is blood and violence which is will

be a 15 certificate. Mainly males because they like action packed horror films.