Treatment

Programme:
Duration: 5minutes

Audience: Those interested in a psychological/crime thrillers and also suitable for those who enjoy films with neo-noir aspects. Rated 15 due to imitable violent behaviour though mostly implied violence.
Anyone above this age may find this enjoyable, though a student audience may find it most appealing.

Resume: Andrew Francis is an unstable man and is socially detached. He has a wife who does not suspect his violent killer side. He keeps details of his murders in a diary, which he records with great detail.  His wife notices odd things with his behaviour, but could never imagine the truth to his darker side. In one instance he poses as a plumber to get into a woman's house. She shows him to the bathroom where he attacks her, pusher her head towards the toilet and shoots her in the back of the head. During this murder, it cuts back to him writing his diary with subject narration. He returns home late to his wife and she falls for his excuses. He sees a person walking down an alleyway one day/night and follows them, he shoots them in the leg and walks to the person writhing on the floor, it cuts as he's about to hit the person with his gun. It then cuts back to him describing the murder in greater detail in his diary. The next day he enters his home, presumingly coming home from work. His wife is stood in the kitchen with his gun pointed to his head, Andrew looks bemused to this and she pulls the trigger. Then it cuts to a flashback of his wife reading Andrew's diary to reveal why she killed her husband.

Suggested elements:

a) Sin City like black and white effect

b) Narration

c) Colour filters

d) Unexpected twist

e) Sound effects