Treatment

Treatment

Characters:
Main Female – Emma Roydes (OR Alice)
Her Boyfriend – Billy Rubin
Her Best Friend – Annette Curtain
Clown – Ferris

Character Traits:
Emma – She is a blonde teenager she’s strong willed, smart and popular. Her mother was killed by Ferris the clown, she doesn’t know that she was killed by him.
Billy Rubin – Billy Rubin is boyfriend to Emma, he is an attractive, tall high school photography nerd. He’s a sensitive, sentimental guy who is very down to earth; he is also very ‘normal’ and tends to reject anything that doesn’t seem to fit into that category.
Annette Curtain – Annette is Emma’s best friend she is a plain ginger girl who makes up for her appearance with her personality. She is easy to talk to and very trustworthy. She’s down to earth and likes to read a lot. Like Billy she is typically ‘normal and also rejects anything that doesn’t fit into that category.
Ferris – Ferris is the murdering clown. He’s cloaked and quite tall.

Location:
Woods – The woods is set on a dark morning, it’s misty and the trees appear silhouetted against the early morning sky. The area is cold looking, and the mist creates an eerie, empty feel to the atmosphere. There is a pond within the woods and the mist creates a tension within the scene.
Bedroom – The bedroom of Emma is a dark, secure place. It’s a pink room with a girly design. It’s a homely place where she can go to relax and get away from the world.

Synopsis:
Behind Closed Eyes
Emma Roydes has a reoccurring nightmare for many months and each night she wakes up at the same point. Almost exactly a year ago her mother was killed tragically and her body was never found. As the anniversary to her mother’s death nears, her nightmares get stronger. Emma pushes it to the back of her mind and tries to carry on with everyday life. She spends the majority of her time spent with her closest friends and her boyfriend. However, even in her conscious mind; images and frights seem to be present. Finally, one night when her dream became so vivid, (a small child-like figure on the other side of the pond), she wakes up and decides to find a resolve to the reoccurring dream. This starts with her losing her closest friends because of the abnormality of what she is planning to do. She’s at a point of no return. The date of her mother’s death draws nearer and nearer and Emma gets closer and closer to her goal. When the day finally arrives, Emma is faced with her fate. As she runs through the woods she has flashbacks of memories. Little does she know that she is reliving her mother’s footsteps. Emma gets to a certain point and recognises the scene from her dreams. At the end of the pond is a cloaked figure, as curiosity for the truth overwhelms her she runs towards it. She reaches out to touch the cloaked figure’s shoulder. As it turns, Emma finds the reality of the situation and the reasoning behind her fear of clowns. Exactly a year after her mother’s death; Emma comes to the same fate by the same clown; Ferris. The nightmares and the flashbacks that she was having were not a creation of her own mind but were passed on from her mother.

Detailed Explanation of the Opening Sequence:
Opens with a secluded wooded area on a misty morning, Emma is running through the woods and she is looking for a cloaked figure within her dreams. She is unaware that there is a hooded figure following her. As she reaches the pond that is in the middle of the woods (her destination) the cloaked figure is standing on the opposite side of the pond, its reflection is rippling on the water. She walks cautiously around to the figure, reaching to touch it’s shoulder. When the figure turns around she is face to face with her worst fear, a clown, barring his rotten teeth. Everything fades to black. As an alarm goes off, the scene arises from the black into a pink and feminine bedroom where Emma is just awakening.