Treatment

Treatment

Title

Dark Room

Film Length

Up to five minutes (short Film)

Audience

Male and Female aged 16-30 (Niche) Predominantly Male.
The target audience will be this age range as there are dark underlying themes and horror-esque elements. Our audience will be interested in mystery films and many puzzles, they may also be interested in the niche storylines as well.

Certificate

12/15 Using the BBFC standards
Even though there are horror elements and darker themes, it features little, to no swearing. We believe that many of the actions are not realistic enough to warrant anything higher and thus cannot be very impressionable



Distributor

Warp films

Synopsis

 A college student finds a camera in an attic in his own house he is a student photographer. He takes a photo of a flower in the ground and walks away. The camera pans from him and zooms into the flower with a pull focus and it reveals that the flower is gone without the protagonist knowing that it isn't there. He carries on with his day taking more photos. He goes home and takes a picture of his cat for it to again like the flower disappear without the main antagonist knowing again. He begins to take pictures of people with each time him either looking down at the camera or walking away with him being oblivious to the fact that the objects and people that he is photographing have gone. He goes to a darkroom to develop the photos he has taken, and he notices something off about each of the photos but carries on developing them anyway. He hears subtle screams and looks towards the photograph to notice that the expressions have changed from last time he looked at them. This begins to make him anxious and begins to question the camera that he bought earlier in the day. He takes a self portrait and there is a deafening silence and flash from the camera. The camera falls and smashes onto the floor.

Suggested elements

Suggested elements tend to be the main selling points of a film in which provide a unique experience for its viewers.
In our film this will include:
The film including the film noir elements, such as having black and white colour schemes and cinematography closely relating to the film noir and mystery genre. This would lead to our audience consisting of more niche groups as our film could be classified as being more art nouveau rather than being  mainstream. Our narrative is mainly restricted however contains hints of omniscience as the audience gains subtle hints along side our main protagonist leading to them knowing certain story points that our characters are unknown of. The genre of the film also allows us to help gain visceral response from audiences.