Final Treatments.

Full Film

Title
Ebony - The film is based around her and her childhood, the name Ebony also has a dark meaning to it, making it appropriate to the theme of our story.

Duration Time 

92 minutes.

Audience
Certificate 15. Aimed mainly at females, possibly males, aged 15-25 as the film shows manipulation throughout child/teenage life and how people can be affected by it, the consequences of people's actions and how people cope with their problems. There is no particular ethnicity or class targeted. 

Synopsis 

The film begins with the death of Ebony, the tormentor in the film, and the girl, Lily, being saved from her captivity by her friend Nicole. Nicole then asks Lily about her ordeal, and as she begins to explain it, the narrative reverses and then begins with when Nicole and Ebony first met Lily. On their initial meeting, Nicole is very welcoming of Lily, but Ebony acts strangely and initially slightly unwelcoming. The film then progresses as Ebony befriends Lily and eventually manipulates her and turns her against Nicole by telling her about events within her childhood which involved Nicole deeming herself better than Ebony and belittling and bullying her, yet Ebony stuck around because she felt she had no other friends. Ebony's childhood has left her tainted and bitter, and so is the reason for her turning Lily against Nicole. Once Lily has turned against Nicole, her and Ebony grow closer. Nicole then slowly notices changes in Ebony's character from afar and becomes increasingly more suspicious when she realises that Ebony is skipping lessons at college. Nicole informs Lily of her observations and tells her that Ebony's acting out of character, but Lily pays no attention as she believes that Nicole is jealous of her and Ebony's friendship and lets Nicole know that Ebony has been missing college due to family problems. When Ebony finally comes back to college, her and Lily go to her house after school one day and Ebony drugs a drink of Lily's, knocking her unconscious, and then takes her to an old abandoned house where she then keeps her captive and tortures her mostly mentally but also in some physical aspects. This torture takes place because Ebony wants to release her angst from her childhood traumas. Nicole quickly observes Lily's absence and finds it suspicious that she's now missing as Ebony is back. This makes Nicole suspicious of Ebony, and so she follows her home from college one day and discovers that she hasn't been going home every day, but to the abandoned house. As she watches her go inside from afar, she then slowly follows her in and discovers that she's been keeping Lily captive. She then kills Ebony in a moment of panic and desperation and saves Lily, taking us back up to the point the story began at.

Suggested Elements 
The storyline is non-linear, captivating the audience from the start as it makes them curious to find out what happened throughout the rest of the story. The opening shot of Ebony dead can lead an audience to believe that she's the victim of the situation, but the narrative then corrects the audience, making them want to watch the whole film to understand the full story.


2 Minute Opening Sequence 

Title  
Ebony - The film is based around her and her childhood, the name Ebony also has a dark meaning to it.

Duration Time
2 minutes


Audience
Certificate 15. Aimed mainly at females, possibly males, aged 15-25 as the film shows manipulation throughout child/teenage life and how people can be affected by it and how they cope with it. There is no particular ethnicity or class targeted.


Synopsis
The title sequence opens with some jumpy and scratchy clips of the three girls in the story, Ebony, Nicole and Lily, all being together happily and enjoying themselves. There are also several short, intriguing clips of a girl falling off a chair, someone's body being dragged away, someone being tied up, two blurry close ups of two people's faces and a close up of a brick that then gets thrown at the camera that will intrigue an audience to want to know what the story's about and thrill them into knowing there's some sort of mystery within the film. These clips are broken up by titles that have a distorted looking font and appear jumpy and scratchy on the screen. At the end of the clips and titles, there's a title of the film saying 'Ebony' and the 'o' is in the shape of an eye. The title then fades out to a clip of an eye, making a graphic match. The camera then zooms out from the eye slowly to reveal a girl's with blood on her face lying on the floor, telling an audience that she's dead. The camera then continues to zoom out until someone's calves are visible, and they eventually drop a brick to the floor. We then see the girl, Nicole, who's been holding the brick with a shocked look on her face. She then hears her name being shouted and turns around to discover her friend, Lily, tied up in a chair, and then looks really ecstatic and happy to see her and starts rambling on and asking her questions about what's happened to her. She eventually unties Lily from the chair and Lily starts to speak of her ordeal, the camera zooming into her eyes and the screen then flashing white for a flashback. Within the flashback, we see Ebony and Nicole approaching Lily at college and eventually befriending her, but within this time Ebony is acting quite strange by being reluctant to talk to her yet she is watching her quite carefully and curiously. The opening sequence then ends when Ebony introduces herself to Lily.


Suggested Elements 
The storyline is non-linear, captivating the audience from the start as they're the curious to find out what happened throughout the rest of the story. The opening shot of Ebony dead can lead an audience to believe that she's the victim of the situation, but the narrative then corrects the audience, making them want to watch the whole film to understand the full story.