The Treatment

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Working-title: Glitch

Genre: Crime Drama

Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds – 3 minutes

Brief Overview:
In a world where every movement is seen, every word is heard. A girl goes missing. Except she isn’t the only one. Asha is the 36th girl to go missing in eleven months, but nothing is being done to find her. Jodie, her mother has a feeling something is not right, it was impossible to remove your life-long monitor band meaning it is impossible to go missing.

Synopsis:
Jodie and her son, Theo return to the location where Asha was last recorded, here they put up posters of her, in hope she will come back. There is a tension looming in the air, as a realisation that her daughter has achieved the impossible and Jodie’s’ suspicions begin to rise. Questioning the lack of police help and interest, Jodie voices her concerns to Theo.

Characters:
Asha – the victim, always appeared content with life but had a suspicious history in the past, a world before technology. [18 years-old, intelligent, mysterious]

Jodie – the hero, she had grown up alongside the development of technology, having experienced life before and after the new society. She questions whether there is a bigger picture to just a couple missing children. [around 45 years-old, mother of two, married]

Theo – brother to Asha, son to Jodie, always complied to the running of the new society, never questioned its ways or known any different. [20 years- old]

Visual and Audio Elements:
Natural lighting (outdoors), editing will evolving enhancing colours focussing on the brightness of the sky verses the darkness of the woods. Creating a slight contrast to create a sense of unease – that something is not right – blurring the lines of reality and what we believe to be reality.

Audience:
18 – 35 millennials, ABC


I want to have a cross-gender appeal as that will bring in a wider audience but it is also based on the actors I know, as they are predominantly female, I may have to change having a brother, Theo, to a sister, Sam, it depends on the actors I have available at the time.

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