Treatment for the 2 minute extract.

Duration: 2 minutes aprox

Audience: Horror loving audience’s ages between 15-32 Mostly male.

Resume: The first 2 minutes of the film is a chase scene through some woods and down a narrow isolated path. The start of the film cuts straight to the chase scene at the top of a hill in some woods. Here the audience gets to see both the characters. It is unclear why the chase is happening creating more suspense and mystery. The chase continues through the woods with the scientist falling and stumbling over tree roots. The chase breaks out onto an enclosed path with high hedges on both sides and an extremely narrow track. Because of the enclosed space there are many thorn bushes on each side and the victim keeps getting snagged slowing him down. However the lumberjack walks through them unharmed and without stopping. The path then comes into another wood and the victim realises he is lost and starts to panic. He continues to run and finally comes to a dead end in the wood and cannot find a way out. The lumberjack catches up and raises his weapon for the kill. The film then cuts to the title and then quickly onto a conversation between 2 people explaining that a boys father has been killed. No more details are announced adding more mystery to the film.

These are just some of the typical "bad guys" that you would see in most horror movies. The first is the typical psychotic male, although sometimes female the psychotic character is mostly played by a male. The psychotic character usually comes from a bad dark background, and in most cases had bad things happen to them as a child/young adult. The next villain is the Zombie, Zombies are the focal point of many horror films, and come in several different forms. The most typical type of Zombie is the Zombie that eats human flesh. The most common reason for these humans to become Zombies is through some sort of virus (28 Days Later). The next common villain is the typical "non-human monster". These are normally either from another planet or have been created by man. For example in the picture above is the predator, which is from a different planet, although from a different planet the Predator along with most other non-human villain are have many human qualities and features. For example the often walk up-right and have the same body shape as humans. Often in horror films this type of villain are mostly misunderstood and often we are made to feel sorry for them. A final common villain in horror films is the Vampire, Vampires are shown very differently in different Vampire films, the one in the picture above is from a relatively modern film called "40 days of Night", the vampires in this have the same basic characteristics as most Zombies. Although in more older films the Vampire look very different, like the most famous vampire character which is Dracula.

Film age Classification.

Our film will be a 15 age certificate. This is mainly because we will not have any sexual scenes or references. There will be some strong language said by the main character. There will be frequent moderate violence to show the death scenes in more detail.

A 15 certificate cannot include extreme violence or gore. Strong sexual scenes are forbidden and only in 18 or 18R rated films. Our 2 minute section of our film with have no sexual scenes and not much swearing. There will be some violence. In the rest of the film that isn't shown there will be frequent swearing and more violences and mild gore.

Research: Distributers

Dimension Films - We chose Dimension Films because not only are they a successful and well known company, but they have released many horror films including Planet Terror, Scream, Halloween and Hellraiser.

Before deciding on this distributor, we looked at the following:

- Pathe Distribution

- 20th Century Fox

- TriStar Pictures

- Universal Studios Home Entertainment

But we decided to go with Dimension Films.