Treatment

 Treatment

Synopsis:

The expression of ‘two- faced’ has just got a more extreme. A normal working day woman finds herself battling with her inner demons as she is faced at a crossroads between good and evil.

Treatment:

Beginning:  Close up of Veronica preparing a glass of water before a long shot of her walking up stairs then the camera pans to her going from the stairs to the bathroom. Medium close of her to get some sleeping pills out of the bathroom cabinet reverse shot of her looking into the mirror before leaving the room to go to bed. As she gets in bed extreme close up of her hands picking up pills then camera follows as she takes a sip of water and she falls asleep. From a birds eyes view you see Veronica in the middle of the night tossing and turning before it cuts to black and white which is the beginning of the non-linear structure. Strobbing is used to show her getting out of bed but to disorientate the audience by showing one half of her still in bed and the other moving. Cutting to a panned low angle shot as she walks across the landing to the bathroom gives the character a different strength and power to the scene. As you see through Veronica point of view seeing her reflection in the mirror shows a difference in facial expression being cold and motionless. As it cuts to her quickly walking down stairs to kitchen there is a close up of her wrapping a mysterious object into a kitchen towel and placing her bag, the use of concealment leaves the audience guessing what is to come, as she is begging to leave you see a full shot of the character from the back revealing her size and height. The door slams behind her, and then sees her walking down her drive into the distance. When she returns you see her walking back up the drive from the bedroom window, to show a passing in time, when she does come through the door the camera pans to follow her walking up the stairs. As she drops the bag on the bathroom side an extreme close is used to make this a significant shot in the opening credits. The camera pans again round her as she walks to her bedroom and door closes behind her.  The camera is back in colour again as medium close up shows Veronica waking up in hot sweats, as you see a close up of her face her expression has changed again from that cold, motionless from before. As she goes back to sleep it cuts back to black and white again signifying a change in scenario it cuts to a close up of her pulling keys out with an extreme close up of image of keying with a family picture- with her not on leaving the question who are these keys as the door slowly turns and creeks building up suspense you here an alarmed voice from a far shouting ‘Who’s there?’ it quickly cuts to door slamming behind her and all you can hear is someone screams leaving the audience to decide what’s happened.  You see a behind shot of walking from the house with a coat over her shoulder which she didn’t have before. As it cuts back to her going home she drops coat in to a bin bag and throws it under the stairs, the camera pans as she walks up the stairs and into her bedroom. It cuts back to colour as she wakes up and looks to her alarm clock, close up of time to show the passing from night to day. As she goes to the bathroom she turns the radio on whilst getting ready she overheard the radio saying how the ‘Glazebury serial killer strikes again’ reaction shot shows her facial expression being shocked about the news, showing she is oblivious to the night antics. As she continues to get ready she reaches in to her bag to get lipstick but knocks the bag over by accident and the blood stained kitchen towel falls out she picks up the cloth and looks in the mirror cutting to black and white again to show the same the cold motionless expression from before slowly changing to an evil smirk.

Middle: Veronica can’t understand why she has found this or why she has discovered a coat which belonged to the Jones- who was the last serial killer victim. She realises that the time of her night terrors began was when murders began also. She hides camera all round her house and discovers the atrocities she has committed. She sends herself to a mental clinic to keep the public safe but her split personality is still taking over and somehow still committing these murders.

End: The police try to intervene and assonate Veronica but because it’s her split personality the cant kill an innocent person, they try to do an exoticism on Veronica to get rid of this evil spirit but it still doesn’t work. For the public sake Veronica ends up doing suicide.