Film Treatment

Film Title: Minutes, Hours, Days.

Production Name: Rain Drop Productions

Film Duration: 2 minutes

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Target Audience: 15 to 24 Male/Female

News Article Used: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4556983.ece
Man dies preventing suicide.

Character Breakdown:

Main character - Callie

• 17
• Female
• Student
• She was best friends with the man who died

Budget: £0

Props: - Laptop

• Letter | Envelope
• Clock
• Fairy Lights

Synopsis:

It had been week since Tommy had died saving Callie. She was in an emotional state, her head was spinning and she felt that it was all her fault. He had only died because of her. Time passed very slowly and she was getting lots of hurtful messages on social media because everyone thought she had caused his painful death. She was getting more and more depressed. Callie locked herself in her room and let no one talk to her, see her. She wouldn’t eat or drink anything, she would just lie in her bed crying for days.

A letter for Tommy’s funeral slid under Callie’s door, Tommy’s name and the 20th of January stood out on the piece of paper. As she read it tears dropped on the piece of paper. She read it and flew out of the room, angrily crying and running out of her house. As she was running down the road she dropped the piece of paper.

(Flashback) January 4th 2015. Callie was in a very bad place in her life, she had thought about many times when she could end her life, but today was the day she was going through with it. Callie hadn’t had a good upbringing, and she felt all alone. Despite being told on various occasions that they was always there for her and she would never face any problems alone.

As she was running up to the top of the building, Tom was chasing after her, shouting for her to stop, tears in her eyes she stopped at the edge of the roof and looked down. Making a heroic move, Tom pushed her from the edge on to the roof, he accidentally fell from the roof.

(Back to present) Callie ran into the woods and hid from the world, the only place she felt safe in the world, alone in the dark wood. No one could find Callie for days. She appeared in the paper several times “missing girl”, “girl missing after blamed for friends death”. 3 days had passed and Callie was nowhere to be seen. Her family were getting worried as she had been missing for so long. Everyone she knew were searching for her.

She turns up last minute at the funeral, and decides not to go in. she waits by a tree, the coffin comes out, followed by a group of people who she assumed were close relatives. She watched closely as the coffin with the body inside was being buried.

Callie started to walk, unsure of where she was going, she just walked and walked. She found herself at tommy’s house, where they were having a family gathering. Looking through the window from the road, Callie saw what she had caused. She saw a group of family and friends with a big part of their life that was missing. She knew what she had to do.

Callie got out her phone and checked her social media accounts. Lots of hurtful messages appeared. She dropped her phone on the ground, cracking as she ran away. Running home she finds her house empty, goes up to her bedroom and finds a paper and pen which is on her school desk surrounded by unfinished schoolwork. She quickly writes out a letter and seals it. Leaving it on the kitchen counter with “mum and dad” written on the front of the envelop. She collects what is needed and goes out of the house. With a tight grip surrounding whatever is in her hands, she leaves the house. Walking back the way she came, she ends up at the church where he was buried.

Walking over to his freshly dug grave, she kneels down beside it and whispers I am sorry. Releases her grip, exposing various pills and drugs in her dainty hand. It was obvious what she was about to do. The morning came around and Callie was found lying next to tommy, dead from an overdose.