Treatment

For our title, we came up with various different title ideas; we tried to incorporate at least one of the key themes into our title, to give the audience some reflection of what the film was about. We each tried to come up with at least one title idea, and these were:

- Twisted Love Story
- Love’s Demise
- Possessed
- A Twisted Obsession
- Unwanted Possession

We all decided on the title ‘A Twisted Obsession’, as we felt it displayed the correct reflection of our film and it symbolizes our entire plot in just them two words, which will appeal to the target audience.

Our plot is based on a friendship of two young girls, Toni and Leanne, as the years of past in their friendship, Leanne slowly develops an obsession over her fellow best friend. The obsession began as Leanne started feeling differently towards Toni, more jealous and protective, her obsession then lead her to stealing some of Toni’s possessions and it then exceeds when she starts taking continuous pictures of her to form her own scrapbook, which is full of pictures, symbols and anything that related to Toni.

The way in which her feelings progressed are pretty normal ways, Leanne began to spend nearly every minute with her inside of school and outside, they were like two peas in a pod, but things became different to Leanne, as she started feeling more sentimental towards Toni, eventually she was all she could think about. But as Leanne’s behaviour slowly changes, Toni begins to become suspicious of her, as Leanne would get really bad mood swings about her going out with other friends or even talking to them.

Toni eventually confronts Leanne about her changing moods, to her surprise Leanne just breaks down and exposes all her hidden feelings to Toni, hoping she would understand and maybe, just maybe love her back. To Leanne’s dismay her love for Toni is rejected harshly, Toni expresses how she only thinks of them as friends, and how she doesn’t like girls like that. Feeling emotionally confused about what has happened and betrayed about Leanne’s hidden feelings, Toni runs off.

Toni thinking that Leanne will just stop her feelings for her is wrong. Leanne’s long term obsession with Toni just doesn’t disappear, it gets worse. Her feelings towards Toni become aggressive, she seeks for Toni after school, leading her into a secret room, her feelings become emotional which turns violent and physical, which leads her into abusing and raping Toni, therefore Toni commits suicide due to this.

In the climax of the film, the case of Leanne is still under way, the police are scouting continuously for her, Leanne therefore comes to the terms of her being disturbed and mentally unstable, she therefore commits suicide because she feels dead without Toni and in addition she truly believe that she deserves to die.

As our task is to only film the opening sequence to our film, we have to carefully produce it to be engaging for the audience to have wanted to carry on watching it.

For our opening sequence we had to plan out what shot we were going to have to use, the shots that we were mainly using are a series of short shots. These shots are used to establish the storyline and to engage the audience in that 2 minutes, but still keeping the enigma code in effect, as we don’t want to give too much of the storyline away.

Our shots will consist of:
- Our opening sequence beginning with our production logo appearing on the screen with effects whilst the soundtrack begins slowly in the background.
- A close up shot of Leanne’s face, which then zooms in further, to show the passion she has whilst hugging Toni, in that shot she is also smelling her hair and playing with it.
- Title appears with effects of my name and Riham’s.
- Fades out & into another shot.
- A close up shot of Toni’s face, which zooms in further, to show that Toni is content with Leanne.
- Fades out &goes into titles with effects of Georgina’s name.
- Extra close-ups, close ups, medium shot of Toni laughing and being her bubbly self to create the effect that she is being watched by Leanne.
- Fades out &goes  into titles with effects of the costume designer’s name.
- Fades out into another shot.
- A mid shot merged in with a match on action shot of Toni walking home whilst opening a gate.
- A long shot of Leanne walking sneakily through the gate after Toni.
- Fades out into an over the shoulder shot of Leanne following Toni, which obviously means she’s following her.
- Fades out & into titles with effects of Executive producer’s name.
- Close up shots of Polaroid’s on the mirror, whilst Leanne is stroking them.
- As the beat drops in the soundtrack, this represents Leanne going mad and ripping the pictures up as she feels angry about her feelings towards Toni and she bottles it up.
- A mid shot of Leanne leaning over the sink, in emotion as she doesn’t know what to do, she slowly then lifts her head in deep pain towards the mirror.
- Fades into titles with effects of the main title.
- Whilst the previous shot happens, the voice over plays which over powers the soundtrack in the faint background.
- Last shot of a zoom in of a distressed Leanne, staring deeply at herself in the mirror.