SECOND TREATMENT - 'THE VISITOR'

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From what we originally perceived to be a true story, 'The visitor' was our next film idea which finalised the characters within our film.
The plot of the film was based on a story which we believed happened in Germany many years ago in which an individual escaped from a mental institute. Within this, the story consisted of three consistent characters on screen but four main characters throughout the entire film. These characters were:
- A child minder
- A mother
- A child
- A father
A brief synopsis of the story went as followed:
Parents, who are extremely busy in their jobs leading a lavish middle-class lifestyle, had to hire an inexperienced babysitter who gradually began to see tweaks in the child's behaviour. This became noticeably more prominent when the child was left alone in his room. Furthermore, the child expressed to the babysitter that he did not like the toy that his mother had recently bought for him. When confronting the mother about her worries, the child minder came to the shocking reality that the mother did not buy the child a new toy, but in fact there was a real life person in his room who had escaped from a mental institute and was slowly tormenting the child in his room at night.
After constructing the script for the film, the idea was discussed with both of our teachers. Unfortunately, we had a huge issue in identifying the 'thriller' aspect in the film and therefore had to change the plot to a more official idea that the audience could thoroughly relate to.
As the characters and the idea of an 'inexperienced' and 'disruptive' figure coming into a family still suited the main ideology we wanted to convey, we kept the title 'The Visitor' but were prepared to make a few changes. At first it was extremely hard to get our heads around moving away from the above story, but eventually we discussed a brand new idea which led to many more twists within our film.