Treatment for 'Psychosis Circus'
Length - 5 minutes
Certificate - 18
Audience - 18-25's with an interest in independent films or mental illness films.
The scene opens with the definition of 'Bipolar Disorder', the ailment that the protagonist suffers with. 'A mental disorder in which the sufferer experiences periods of depression and elation'. A shot is seen of the protagonist finding her Father's gun when they are looking through his possessions he has left behind. It then cuts to the door of a counsellor's office, displaying a medium close up of the name written on the door, establishing the character 'Beryl Bucolic' (the counsellor). The protagonist enters the room, gazing around the room at the unfamiliar environment. She is filled with trepidation, which is emulated in the point-of-view shot of her uncomfortable paralinguistic features. We then seethe protagonist's face, which is pained and uneasy. The counsellor then goes on to ask about the protagonist's (Scarlett Morose) childhood. The scene cuts to a point-of-view shot of Scarlett as a young child, being told that her Father has passed away. She looks down at her hands and sees the clown doll she is holding, forever associating her anguish with the image of a clown. The scene then cuts back to the counsellor's office, in which a medium shot of Scarlett displays how extremely distressed she is. Beryl then questions her about why she thinks she is in counselling. The scene cuts to Scarlett being maliciously bullied, in extreme emotional pain and excessively depressed, with a clown that is a product of her Bipolar Disorder (Jester) mocking her, watching her being verbally and physically attacked. The camera then cuts to Jester playing Scrabble with Scarlett in her bedroom, in which Jester makes comments about her father on the Scrabbled board such as 'murdered' and alludes to his own fate with the word 'bullet'. Scarlett then loses her temper after being mocked by Jester for a long period of time, and dramatically 'swipes' the Scrabble board off the bed were they are playing. It then cuts back to the counsellor's office, where there is another medium shot of Scarlett crying. Suddenly, with extreme revulsion, Scarlett's face becomes pained with fear and the camera pans to the the counsellor for the first time in the film. She has become Jester, taunting Scarlett once more. Scarlett then takes out her Father's gun and shoots Jester in the head, killing him instantly. Scarlett blinks and Jester has become Beryl once more and realises the consequences of what she has done. The film ends with the sound of Scarlett sobbing.
Suggested elements
The film will use colour to help tell the story, as some scenes will be in colour, some in black and white, and some with just the colour red picked out. This will be to show the characters mindset.
The film will also break the 180 degree rule in places and use a lot of jump cuts, again as a metaphor for the protagonists mindset and confusion.
The majority of the film will be in chronological order, but will include flashbacks to explain any previous events leading up to the main action.
There is also going to be a twist in the end of the film, in that you never see the councillor in the film until the final scene when Scarlett invisions her as Jester, the clown in her head. We will the use a match on action combined with a zoom to show that Scarlett has not killed Jester, but has infact killed her councillor Beryl.
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