Planning: Treatment

The film opening starts with a clip of a book opening up, where the fist title appears in the bottom right hand corner. There is then a dead cut to a black screen where we have title 2 in the top right hand conner of the screen. We then have a dead cut to a hand turning a page of a book with title three appearing at the bottom of the screen. We then have a close up of a blunt object, or the weapon that the psychiatrist uses with the camera panning across, then a cut to a black screen with title five appearing on the left hand side of the screen. We will have a dead cut to a black screen where we will have the main actors name in the center of the screen in rather larger writin than the previous texts. we then have an extreme close up of the index finger and thumb rolling a pen inbetween. There is then a cut to a black screen and the mane of our second actor appears in the centre of the screen. We then have a cut to a clip of the psychiatrists cutting up of newspaper titles linked to the killings, the screen then cuts to black where the film title appears in the middle of the screen, slightly off centre in larger writing than all other texts. The cut then goes to a hand grabbing a closed book off of a table with a few sheets of paper scattered. This is also cross-cut or over-lapped with a clip of pages being turned. This cross-cut is then changed into just the clip of pages turning with another actors name appearing. We then see a man writing notes in a book when the name of another actor pops up in the corner. The man writing his notes is then overlapped with a a still picture of some notes that have been made prior. There is a cut to a black screen with the name of another actor that stars in the film. There is then a cut the actor cutting up photos of the victims that have been killed after they have died. Another black screen and another actors name appears on the screen. We then see the actor cutting out pictures of his victim when they were alive then the cut again, goes to a blckscreen ander an actors name comes up. The cut then goes to the psychiatrist cutting up more photos of the victims when they've been murdered and then we see him slide them onto the page from a different angle. There is then a page of notes that has blood splattered over it and the actor runs his hand over the page. There is then a close up of the psychiatrist writing notes with a couple of layers of hands over lapping just off centre. There is a black scrren for the majority of the scree but then a spotlight towards the top right hand side where we can see a picture of one of the victims. Here we can see the title of who did the casting for the film. In the spot light we can see the psychiatrist get a marker pen and draw a line through the eyes of the victim. Then a dead cut to the same screen set up but with the whole face already crossed out and witht he man just drawing the last line; then we have a cut to an extreme close up of the pentip writing notes. The psychiatrist then aligns the pictures onto the page with a red filter over the whole screen, the title of 'music by...' then comes onto the screen. We then have the killer sticking the pictures down onto the page from a height and we have a dead cut to a black screen with the title of 'Edited By...' and then a cut to the psychiatrist rubbing his hand over the picture that has just been stuck down in the previous clip. There is another dead cut of the psychiatrist picking up a pile of notes that are on the desk, then a fading in cut of the book being turned with the pictures of the victims on it. There's a cut to a black screen with the title of 'Director of Photography' appearing in the centre of the screen. There is then a clip of the psychiatrist holding a pen in the writing position in the air. Another black screen is shown with the title of 'Executives Producers'. There is then a pan of a filing cabinet where the lighting is quite dim, and the title of 'written by' comes onto screen. A cut to the killers hands shuffling papers together, tapping the bottom onto the table and then laying them down. A black screen once again appears with the title 'produced by' comes onto the screen, there is another pan of a filing cabinet but with brighter lighting and the final dead cut is to a final brack screen with the directors name on again.