Section 5: Treatment

Treatment

Suite 16 will be an unusual thriller. One female will be confined to a hotel room, surrounded by images of her in unusual situations.

Synopsis

Jenny is confined to a hotel room, because she is being blackmailed. All around this dull room are pictures of Jenny lining the wall. There is one of her in an alley way walking to work, many of her in shops and one in a phone box panicking. Throughout the film she gets more crazed and weird, calling herself Jen-Jen, a comfort whilst she’s going through her own stressful train. Small noises build up in her mind to huge bangs and voices calling her name. There is a camera placed in her room, so she knows if she leaves, someone is always watching out for her. Jenny walks out of her room to wash her face and calm herself down, although when she comes back there are more pictures of her covering the walls.

Later on in the film Jenny develops the courage to leave the room she has been confined to for several months. This is evident to the audience as there is rubbish covering the floor and her appearance is becoming steadily more ‘scatty’. She decides she wants to try and catch the blackmailers John Doe and Joe Bloggs. These two men try and run around after her. There are many close encounters when they cross paths, near a downtown area and a police station, but Jenny just about manages to escape their capture.

Although Jenny is running away and being chased, we, as an audience, are never told what happens. The audience are left to put the pieces together, and find the hidden clues. Jenny eventually finds out herself that she is being blackmailed for a number of reasons; one of them being that she witnessed the murder of a 10 year old child several months ago. Another being her easygoing nature leading her to act as a target – she is easily manipulated and is vital for Joe and John’s plans.

The end of the film is a chase scene – we see Jenny checking into another hotel with the same distressed tone as we heard in the first few seconds of the film. This leaves the film open to discussion for the audience – no obvious ending means that she could be forever escaping on her quest to live.

Opening scene

Firstly, the screen is blank and all we can hear is diegetic sound from the room Jenny is in. She is panicking because she’s just found out that people are after her. She then quickly books a hotel room, but each room she goes to has got several pictures of her. Finally she chooses a room and sits down to calm her self. Jenny goes to wash her face then when she comes back there are more pictures of her around the room. She then picks an image off the wall and slides down and starts to cry. After this she decides to add cameras to the room so she can try and capture anyone that leaves and enters the room.

Target Audience

The film will have a target audience of 16-25 year olds. Most people at these ages enjoy watching psychological thrillers so having it this age will relate to our ages group more. Although the story is a serious one, 16-25 year old will be able to understand it more than a lower age group.

Therefore our certificate will be 15, to relate to the younger generation of today. Although it’s not everyday someone gets blackmailed the reasons why will link to teenage life.

Other details

The film won’t have any recognised people because this wont be possible which will make it more realistic. Our locations will be very strange as were choosing a hotel room to shoot our whole film in which is unusual for many thrillers.