Treatment for Film: Unknowing

Treatment for Unknowing:

The Beginning

Scene 1: It is June 1985; A man and his girlfriend are driving along a quiet road just outside the center of London. It’s very dark out, they decide to park up in a nearby forest. After being sat there for a little while they begin to hear strange noises from the distance. Which startles them, after a while the noises continue to disturb them, so the man decides to go and investigate. He leaves his girlfriend sitting patiently in the car. After searching for a few minutes, the noises stop, so he decides to go back. When he suddenly hears screaming coming from where his car is. He instantly runs in that direction and calls for his girlfriend. But gets no answer.  Feeling very distressed, he finds his car, although the doors are both wide open and his girlfriend isn’t anywhere to be found. He looks in each direction and shouts her name. He then pulls out his phone and begins calling her when something begins to drip onto his shirt, he freezes, he looks above his head to find that his girlfriend is hanging above him with her throat slit. Her blood begins to drip onto his face as he watches her lifeless body in shock. He screams and sprints to his car, as he is starting the car. A tall black figure blocks the road preventing him from leaving, he rubs his eyes thinking it’s a dream. The figure is gone, he speeds away quickly, while rushing away from the forest the figure appears again in the middle of the road. He sees the figure again, causing him to lose control of the car, where he ends up crashing into a nearby tree. He is left unresponsive.

Scene 2: The scene begins by the protagonist Aubrey is waking up to start her first day of her second year at university, she receives a text message from her roommate/best friend Heather. Then she gets out of bed and gets dressed, does her hair and her makeup. Walks in her bathroom and brushes her teeth, she picks up her bag and heads into the kitchen where she sees Heather. They begin chatting when they both see the report about the couple who were killed in the forest last night, they share their thoughts about the murders but don’t think anything else of it. The report then follows with the two-year anniversary of Aubrey’s mother Amanda. Heather grabs the remote and switches the TV off. She then explains to Aubrey that they are not going to let her mother’s death anniversary ruin their day. They get into Heathers car and drive to University.

Scene 3: It is around 8.50am on a Monday morning. Jason, Aubrey’s father. Who is a high ranked police officer in the local areas of London, is going into his office for the day. Where he has files and reports about the most recent murders which were the couple in the forest which took place just the day before. He is seen looking through the photos which were taken at the crime scene of the victims. He then gets a call from the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on the victim who was hung from the tree. He explains to Jason that the victim was stabbed around 10 times and her throat was slit, and that he needs to visit the examination room to look at the victim when he can. 

Scene 4: Jason visits the examination room for the victim of the recent murder, the pathologist begins to describe how serious the injuries are. When suddenly they hear strange noises coming from the corridor next to them. Jason goes and checks it out,  he pulls out his gun. He searches each room through the corridor when he finds a note stuck underneath one of the doors with the words written ''you won't find her.'' this startles him, he shouts down the corridors ''this isn't funny'', he then sprints back to the examination room to find the pathologist is gone. He searches the building for him calling his name, after a while he radios other officers and explains that he is on his way back to his office. He runs to his car to find him dead with his throat slit in the passenger seat. He urges other officers to meet him at his location as soon as possible. 

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