PLANNING: TREATMENT

Film Title: Lights Out!

PLOT IDEAS:

• As private detectives investigating disappearance 
• Old fashioned projector, projecting something.
• Never seen the main threat of the movie.
• Horror conveyed through shadows, first person perspective.
• Vinyl player.
• Police decide not to help the woman.
• The main area we will film is in an asylum where it looks completely abandoned and derelict.
• Moving deeper into the plot the detective, when breaking into the asylum, uncovers the terrifying secrets within the asylum. 
• And in the asylum we see an old fashioned nurse who is experimenting on the missing person who we find in the asylum to be restrained. As result of this, the person is trying to expose the reality of the asylum.  

STORYLINE:

The time period of this film is 1959 and people are still recovering from the abhorrent events of the Second World War. The young woman has her husband taken away from her. A detective played by (Ollie MacNaughton) is hired to try and find her husband's whereabouts.

For the Asylum where the husband has escaped, this is the kind of surrounding and setting we are trying to portray for our film in order to correlate with the genre.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN ASYLUM:

This is exactly what we are looking for the asylum, very narrow corridors, creating darkness and mystery like it has been abandoned for years to really give that edge to it. 

THE DETECTIVE LOOK

For the detective, who is being played by (Ollie Macnaughton) we discussed as a group what the detective should look like. Like a typical 1950's detective fits in with the film it is set in. We were looking for a common detective hat, a long trench coat and a sharp suit underneath. This idea is influenced by Leonardo DiCaprio in "Shutter Island".