Synopsis:
Is hide and seek just and innocent game. We think not. 5 years ago today mother of one was released from Warrington’s mental health institution. 5 years on she has a beautiful little boy, a gorgeous home and the beginning of a new life, what could go wrong…
Treatment:
START:
Five years ago today a woman and mother of one got released from a psychiatric unit. She and her child were playing hide and seek when suddenly things start to get strange. The mother is oblivious to the danger which is about to take place. Little does she know she’s the main danger to her child? We don’t show her face until later in the film which adds suspense to the opening scene. This also makes the audience asks questions, and makes them wonder. She starts to see things which aren’t happening and starts to picture weird things happening. For example in the game of hide and seek she pictures the child in places where he’s not. She starts to get worried, but when she sees his face pop out (P.O.V) then we go back and see he’s not there. The child then appears at the other side of the room. We can see his reflection in the window. When they go to play again she can’t find him this time and is looking for him everywhere. When she’s looking around really rapidly this is when it cuts into the graphics. The graphics we are going to use will be bold since on our largest result was for the graphics to be bold. We are going to be using creepy music, and also in the graphics we will have the psychiatric papers saying the date they went in and came out and other results from the psychiatric unit. In the opening credits the there is bold writing saying ‘ 5 YEARS AGO’ which shows what’s happened that date however what is going to happen in the present day and whys 5 years ago is so significant, this is not yet clear and with them going back 5 years will have the audience guessing what’s to come. There is an image of somebodys health record in the credits which represents someones, unknown to the audience, health, mental or physical you don’t know which will keep you wondering if this has any important role in the film.
MIDDLE:
Ellis becomes seriously paranoid as her innocent game of hide and seek with her child turns into this game which leads to her believing if she doesn’t find her son then her son will die. Ellis becomes more worried when she keeps seeing images of her son covered in blood and in scraggy clothing as if somebody has attempted to kill him, the images become worse as they begin with his sweet and innocent face and end up becoming a child who looks possessed and is ready to attack or even kill someone. The child then has a mixture of saliva and blood drooling from his lips almost as if he has been attacked, the mother then carries on looking for her child and still there’s no sight of him. Ellis then sees a human figure with a child but their faces are hidden as it is night time and the street light close to their house is usually constantly flickering has now totally broken so all you can see are two bodies but no face. The woman instantly phones the police to report the missing child however she realises the phone wire has been cut and as she glimpses up a shadow is seen leaving the house Ellis sprints to the door however nobody is there and then the woman begins to scream. Her screams get louder and louder then there is a slow drumming noise in the background (diagetic) the music gradually quickens but then all you hear is a polite whisper, the camera sharply changes focus to an old looking person asking if the woman is ok however their face is also hidden. You hear footsteps but aren’t quite sure who it is but when the camera moves back to its original position Ellis has gone out of sight, the camera then changes scenery and shows a gang of people hanging around a music store but is mainly focusing on the man who’s identity is unclear. There is then a gun shot, however no scream, the man runs towards the gun shot to see if everything is ok but when he gets closer to the direction that the gun shot came from in the corner of his eye he sees a figure slowly walking away holding their arm as if it is causing them pain, he asks the woman if she is ok but she repeats the words ‘she’s coming’ three times the man looks at the woman who is wearing some sort of work-type clothing and is quite small and skinny and looks as if she is crazy, but not all is clear yet. ‘BANG’ another gun shot goes off echoing in a otherwise silent and dark night. The man is now stuck between either finding and trying to stop the person responsible for the gun shots, or looking after the woman who has blood pumping from her upper arm which seems to be like a gun shot wound, the man then asks the woman if she had been shot and she then repeatedly swears as her wound is causing her severe pain. The camera then switches to another man who is walking down the street where the injured woman and man are and thus showing us his point of view of what is happening around him, the man who seems weak and exhausted runs towards the injured woman and man and instantly phones the woman an ambulance who then takes the woman away for treatment. Then the man who phoned the ambulance now alone in the street sees two figures standing in the shadows stops in his tracks, runs the other way and frantically makes a call, then you hear police sirens.
END:
Upon hearing the police sirens the two figures step out of the shadows revealing themselves as Ellis vacantly staring into space holding a gun and a child we know to be her son from the begining of the film. The camera then cuts to the kind stranger staggering and out of breath, he senses someones behind him he turns and sees ellis aiming the gun at him. She starts pointing at her child and screaming at the man to apologise for attacking her child and calls him evil. The kind stranger looks confused and the audience are shown ellis is alone and pointing at fresh air he realizes she's delusional and tries to take the gun from her. Then an epic battle enshues between the two with ellis eventually winning by removing her shoe and hitting the kind stranger with it. As ellis is about to pull the trigger the police arrive at the scene and wrestle her to the ground.
Flash to 5 years later and we see ellis in a room wearing a straight jacket with a crazed look in her eyes screaming at a psyche nurse to help her to find her son.
