Treatment and Script: Silenced

Title:

Silenced

Tagline:

Somebody hel.....!

Logline:

With horror Kathryn wakes up noticing that she is handcuffed to a tree in the middle of a forest with no memories what has happened. Will she be able to escape before her masked kidnapper returns to finish his business?

Synopsis:

This narrative short movie follows Kathryn an 18 year old girl who wakes up in the middle of a forest with no memories how she got there. Panicked by the fact that she is handcuffed she tries to scream for help but is unable to do so since her mouth is sealed. After managing to break of a metal part of her jacket she tries to unlock her handcuffs. Just as the kidnapper returns she manages to free herself and runs away in the dark forest but passes out due to the exhaustion she has endured the past few hours. After she wakes up again and tries to get up to continue to escape she gets dragged back into the dark forest, leaving the viewer with her screams.

Locations:

Forest behind the house of friends of mine

Artists:

Arlene Pickrell (Victim or Camera)
or Koleah Mantle (as Victim)
Philipp Mischke (Kidnapper and Camera) 

Camera:
Many switches from victim to kidnapper
Close up as well as shot from far away
Camera movement gets more drastic and fast towards the end to underline panic 

Atmosphere/Effects:
Use of natural dark light (moon) and the environment and its sound for spooky/scary atmosphere
May apply a dark blue filter to push this atmosphere even further. 
Many POV shot from the victim to create a connection to the audience and convey fear
Use of heart beats at the end to pretend safety followed up by the dark ending

Resources:

Camera

Lense

Sd Card

Battery

Artists

Stabilizer

Handcuffs

Microphone

Tape or Scarf to seal mouth
Dark clothes for Kidnapper/Casual for victim
Black Yoga mat for ``drag`` scene
Mask for kidnapper

Script:

There will only be two actors in this movie: a victim and a killer. 

The victim finds herself waking up in the woods being handcuffed to a tree and her mouth silenced by a scarf tied up around her face (the sun is about to set)). After panicking, she manages to detach a small metal part of her jacket and attempts to unlock the handcuffs which she eventually succeeds to do. At the same time a car stops visibly in the background on the field, we see a close up of a man pulling an axe out of his trunk and putting a mask on. From far away we see him slowly but determined approaching the victim’s location. He finds the handcuffs next to the tree and starts screaming out of anger with not recognizable words. The camera switches to the victim running and stumbling through the woods and a shot from her POV showing that she is about to pass out (blurry vision and peeping sound in background). She breaks down just as she reaches the end of the forest. Moments of black. She wakes up again taking a second to recognize the situation she is in. A she attempts to get up, she gets stopped midway being pulled back into the forest. The camera switches in between her screaming and the mask of the killer pulling her