Treatment One.

Treatment 1

Title

 Syndicate

Duration

 90 minutes

Audience

 The age range of our audience would be around 15-30 yrs (both male and female) and would be aimed at people with an interest in the psychological thriller genre and a plot line involving mystery, action scenes and exciting twists. The certificate of our film would be a 15 because it contains scenes including; strong language, threat and horror, violence and imitable behaviour, not appropriate those under the age of 15. Similar films to our that ours that our audience would like would be; Silence Of The Lambs, Suicide Squad, Fight Club and Clockwork Orange .

Film Distributor

Icon Film

Synopsis of full film

 Beginning- Psychologist Alice O’Brien is sent to investigate the mental well-being of a well-known leader of group on masked vigilantes wanting to allow people to escape their monotonous lives and exploit the authorities and norms of society known only as H. O’Brien spends a gradually progressive amount of time with him, and realises that he is able to enter her head as suppose to the other way around e.g. revealing personal details, opening closed memories. She gives up on him, realising that H is harming her own mental health, but finds out only days later that he has escaped and returned to his eagerly awaiting followers. However, H pursuits O’Brien further, slowly manipulating her to join his side and commit their infamous acts.

Middle- O’Brien falls into a spiral of darkness and moves further away from the person she was. H seems to be everywhere she is, until she eventually is captured by them, and warned that if she doesn't obey by his law ‘for the benefit of people like her’ he'll kill her and her family. O’Brien, realising the power and authority and H has over not just her but society itself, has no choice but to commit the acts of deviance that his followers do, e.g. collaborating in a robbery of a shop, holding a banker at gunpoint and planting explosives in a public garden, all while wearing the face paint of skulls associated by the Day Of The Dead tradition in Mexico. The more she resists, the more involved she seems to become.

End- H, as his biggest protest yet, plans to blow up a show centre filled with people. Knowing that murder will be committed, O’Brien goes against her fears and tries to alert them of what’s happening, but isn't taken seriously due to them having no history of H and O’Brien’s flustered and deranged state. She then tries to prevent the explosives from going off by escaping and rushing into the stage production before it half-time, but realising that she is the trigger, as the explosives go off. O’Brien blacks out, then wakes up to find she is in a hospital bed in a ward herself- H and the cult was a reflection made up in her own imagination of her view of society and her haunting childhood of death of her parents, which she had forever blamed herself of .The figure of H was indeed an old client but did not escape or own any sort of cult, and the skull obsession was due to her mother’s interest in the afterlife. O’Brien is told her mental health had been deteriorating massively and now she would have to slowly defeat her demons in order truly overcome the terror of her own mind.

Suggested Elements

 Special effects – makeup

Dramatic twist in the plot

Exciting action and explosive scenes

Flashbacks

Close ups