Our Final Treatment Idea

The opening scene starts in darkness. We hear a woman’s voice saying softly, “Is there no way out of the mind?”. We then see an ECU of a man’s bloodshot, frenzied eyes. Then we are shown a wider shot of the entire room, revealing that this man is sitting on a single chair in the middle of a tiny, white room – a cell in a mental institute. He then hallucinates various scenes from his past that appear in the room with him, although in actual fact he is entirely alone. One hallucination is a woman sitting on a bus seat next to him, reading a poetry book. Another is the same woman sitting opposite him at a café table, pouring ketchup into a sandwich. Throughout these visions, the man sits completely still and does not speak; only the woman speaks. There are also various strange sounds and flashes of light throughout the scene, adding to the confusion. The editing between shots will be very jumpy, and continuity rules will purposely be broken for effect. The lighting will be very bright, giving the scene a sterile look. We will possibly include a location switch as one of these visions, involving the man imagining himself to be standing on a roof. The majority of the sequence will be shot inside this white room, however. Other things appearing in the room may include a pool of blood, a gun, or even the woman dead on the floor, foreshadowing the film narrative’s tragic ending.
A title will come up at the end of the sequence saying ‘6 months earlier’, then the clip will end.


[Please note that this planning is no longer relevant to our final idea, only our original idea, as we changed our concept: see our change of idea post]