Treatment

Title: Eva.


Brief synopsis of your production:
Produce marketing material for a new thriller film; 2 posters, DVD front, back and margin.


Genre:
Thriller hybrid-
Thriller -using tension, terror, suspense, anxiety.
Drama - stories involving intense character development and interaction.


Target demographic:

• 15+
• Working Class
• Students
• Aimed at both genders
• Consumers who enjoy drama with slight terror and gore

Brief overview of the narrative:


Events-

• 40 year old male, drink driving,
• Causes a car crash
• Killing Eva’s parents
• Leaving Eva in her uncles care and his girlfriend(prostitute)
• Her uncle sexually abuses her as a child
• At 19, she flips out at the anniversary of her parent’s death, goes home drunk, leads her uncle on sexually and then stabs him.
• Heidi arrives home after work to see Derek dead, cries out.
• Eva then kills her
• She then searches out the man who caused the car crash and goes out after him and his family
• She locates them at a family party, she kills the drink driver, and is about to kill his daughter, when Eva sees the children crying and hiding,
• Eva breaks down and slices her own throat.

Characters:

• Young Eva(9)
• Eva(19) - Main character
• Josie and Philip - Parents
• Derek - Uncle
• Heidi - Uncles girlfriend
• Grant - Drink driver - Granddad
• Jane- Grant’s daughter
• Holly and Ben – Jane’s Children

Other relevant information:


Location-

• Quite country lane for car crash scene
• Semi dirty, lack of material items house for Uncle Derek’s home
• Warm family home for Grant’s home.