Treatment

Title:Trip?

Length:5 minutes

Certificate:12A

Distributor:Shorts international

Audience:Our audience will be anyone over the age of 12, however the main target is males aged 15-20, because they will identify more with the man character who is a male who goes to college and lives a regular life before the events of the film. Their main interests will include supernatural things (e.g. ghost stories, urban myths) and will probably have a large knowledge about things like purgatory, heaven and hell. They may also be fans of V for vendetta, the sixth sense, resident evil, supernatural(TV) e.t.c.

Synopsis: it starts with a boy getting up, getting ready to go to college. When he's walking down the street he is stabbed, and then he wakes up in a room, on the floor with a stab wound. He is accompanied by a man in a shirt and tie, wearing a mask when he wakes up. He asks the man where he is and the masked man explains that he's dead and he's in purgatory, but doesn't reveal his identity.
   The man in the mask then offers him a chance to save his own life, all Alex has to do is walk through a door the man in the mask points out, however, if he fails to save his life he'll be stuck in purgatory forever. Alex walks through the door and he's back at the scene of the stabbing, he sees the guy who stabbed him approaching him, so Alex runs from him.
   There is a chase scene and Alex gets away, however when alex thinks he's escaped, he's is confronted by the masked man who raises a gun to Alex. Alex screams "What are you doing?! This isn't what you said!" The masked man then replies "I lied."  There is an extreme close up of the trigger being pulled and then it cuts to a sheet of red, and then the man in the masks pops up, starts laughing, pulls out a notebook and adds another mark to his tally, then walks through another door, where another person is waiting.

Suggested elements:Uses a genre which is rarely used in other films (Supernatural thriller), offers a unique view of afterlife and death.

A dark story with unexpected twists and a dark ending.