Film Treatment

Film TitleIsolation

OverviewThe film shows what happens to students who bully someone and then think they can get away with it.

Outline3 main people, all go to the same school and in the same year and are all friends. All going out on a Friday night but one gets killed. We don’t know who the killer is at the beginning until the end where we find out the killer is someone who has been excluded from the group of 3.

Technical InformationLength: 114 minutesCertificate: 15

LocationBased in a estate were the 3 character live, then in the 3 characters houses (London)

Cast list

Charlie Crooker – Victim (Male)Eddie Starker – Victim (Male)Katie Smith – Victim (Female)Jamie Toole – Murder (Male)Mr. Barnes – Teacher (Male)Mrs. Crooker – Mother (Female)Ally De Silva – Friend (Male)-- THIS IS NOT THE FULL CASTLIST --

Synopsis

Isolation is a story based around the apparent superiority of the emotionally stable over the unstable. The story surrounds a group of friends (Charlie Crooker, Eddie Starker, Katie Smith), who expel a boy (Jamie Toole) from their circle of friendship. The film is set in a non-chronological order, it begins with the three of them preparing for a night out. Whilst they are getting ready, they are each playing the same song, which further reinforces their reputation as close friends; there is a noise in the background, which provokes each of them to turn around to assess the situation. At this

point the film cuts back to earlier in the week and all the friends are at school chatting about the Friday night ahead. At this point, Jamie walks past and Eddie starts to poke fun at him, tormenting him for the way he looks, Jamie tries to ignore him but Eddie wont let him past. Eddie starts to get more and more aggressive as Jamie ignores his quips. Eddie lets him walk past but spits on his back, Katie is laughing in the background but Charlie appears disheartened by Eddie’s behavior towards Jamie. The bell goes and the next scene is in a classroom where Charlie and Jamie are in the same row of seats, Charlie makes an attempt to reconcile with Jamie, but Jamie sees him as ringleader to the whole thing and refuses his apology.The film then cuts to the end of the day and Eddie and Charlie are walking back, Katie is in a detention for a missing piece of homework for a Media Studies teacher, Eddie turns to Charlie and asks him whether he has a lighter, Charlie does and hands it to Eddie, Eddie then pulls out a joint and proceeds to light it, he takes a few drags and then attempts to hand it to Charlie, he refuses and Charlie starts to talk to Eddie about the incident that lunchtime. Charlie sees his actions as unacceptable but Eddie disagrees and proceeds to remind him of what Jamie did to them, just as Eddie is about to reveal, the boys walk out into the road as a car pulls into that road, the car nearly hits them and starts to honk at the boys. The boy’s turn and start to hurl abuse at the driver of the flash Mercedes, the driver gets out of the car and the boys start to run off, still hurling abuse. The camera follows them down the road and around the corner where they enter their estate. They say their goodbyes and each turn into their individual houses.Charlie enters his house, and his mum is there. She asks him how his day was and he says it was as always- just school. He enters the kitchen whilst maintaining a conversation with his mum; he cuts some bread and puts it in the toaster. He then tells her about the exchange between Eddie and Jamie and he seems rather worried, there is a moment of sensitivity but that is quickly forgotten when he hears the sound of the toaster popping up, he grabs the toast and runs upstairs to his room where he starts to play loud music.The film lingers on Charlie, intersected with scenes with Katie, Eddie and Jamie. Charlie is falling asleep and then there is the sound of the school bell, and it cuts to the front gates of the school,

Charlie meets his friend Ally, who offers him a cigarette, Charlie accepts and they stand outside the gates smoking. Ally invites Charlie to his party on the Friday, and Charlie considers the offer and decides to change his current plans of going out with Eddie and Katie. When Charlie tells them, Eddie is angered by Charlie’s sudden decision to change his plans, and refuses to talk to him for the day. The film then picks on Eddie for the middle sectionThe murder scene is the scene that gives the film its 15 certificate.

-- THIS IS NOT FINISHED SYNOPSIS WE WILL PUT THE FINISHED TREATMENT ON OUR BLOGS --

Estimated Budget£2.5 Million