Film Treatment: Red

Film Treatment: Red

For the film opening task I am going to be working in a group with Amber Law and Daniel Faint. Our Idea for a film treatment is a variation of the tale Little Red Riding Hood.

In our idea, Red is an orphan who has lived with her grandmother since her parents died in mysterious circumstances. However her grandmother was no darling old biddy. Instead she was a cruel old lady who abused Red as a child. The abuse is too much for Red however and she flees to the forest, and lives there alone until her teenage years where she develops schizophrenia and a multiple personality disorder.

One of the personalities is a savage beast, a wolf. Red does not know when or where she will turn, and is fearful of her "wolf" persona as it is an angry and demonic one. One day she wakes up in the forest covered in blood, and realizes that something must have happened and in her search for clues she finds that she has butchered her abusive grandmother, and in fleeing the scene kills an innocent woodsman. After her hideous crimes Red is now on the run from the law and herself.

The tagline for the film will be "Who knows what foul monster dwells within the mind?"

Some of the shots that we plan to shoot for our opening are the moon rising, Red running through the forest and Red packing her basket.