Treatment

Sicarius

The idea of our film is that it is centred around the main protagonist a serial
killer that spends his time planning out and committing a series of elaborate
murders in his lair. The motive behind the killings is not made apparent in the
opening two minutes, however all the murders are committed in the same way,
however the method of killing differs each time.

In our production, the actual killings are not seen as that would be too gory for
our audience, however the method of killing is shown and the deaths are
implied. We have attempted to make it scary by adding many static and
flickering shots like there are in other scary thrillers like Se7en.

The first section of our production will be fairly slow paced, and will show the
killers lair and what other things he has prepared to organise his killings, eg
mask and pin board. The pin board will have several newspaper cuttings from
previous serial killers to set the mood of the film as it is one of the first shots
you see. It will also have a calendar, which ropes together all the murders and
adds a sense of the time spectrum that all the murders take place over. It also
implies that the murder has occurred, as toward the end of the film you will not
actually see the killer committing the murders, like you do in the first two - this
is to stimulate the imagination of the viewers more than anything.

After the first minute or so the tempo of the film will speed up, around where
you actually see the bodies after the murders. This will flow with the music, as
the track we have chosen speeds up perfectly and should go well with this.

The final scene will show the murderer in an interrogation room. The
interrogator will ask a question: Where were you on the 22nd of August, 2015?
This is relevant as this is the date that the first killing will take place as shown on
the calendar in the film.