Treatment For Title Sequence Production - By Shondell

Treatment for “Parallel Minds” Production

Character Roles:

Cameron: George Smith (AKA Scar)

Lauren: Summer Anderson (AKA Screamer)

Shondelle: Anastasia Williams (AKA Envy)
Charlie: Rupert O’Hara (AKA Manic)

Extras: Psychiatrist

Genre: Psychological Thriller.

Pre Title: Cameron as the survivor of the events is being treated by a psychiatrist and is laying down on the chaise lounge.

Cameron says cliff-hanger speech before flashing to the title sequence next: “Its still affecting me up until this day, I never wanted to be here again, in this position, I knew we were always connected in some way but some ways more than others, and that was when it all started.”

Title Sequence: Pictures of characters in natural places i.e. the park having fun with a figure behind them wearing a mask. Signifies something is on their minds.

Actor names, production company, camera people appear in an unsettling text to foreshadow that the film will contain unsettling content.

The music played during the title sequence will be unsettling to also add to the atmosphere attempting to be portrayed. It will foreshadow the idea that this film will be unsettling with a horrific/thriller type theme.

Figure never appears behind photos of Cameron, hints that there is something different about him.

Plot: A group of friends that met in an mental institute many years ago, but is not revealed till later in the film are released and go about their normal way of lives having fun partying etc. Events start to happen involving the deaths of the characters one by one all linking to a figure wearing a mask before they all die. The audience is lead to believe initially that it is Cameron who is the killer as in the title sequence the figure never appears behind Cameron in the photos. The audience later finds out that it was in fact the characters committing suicide rather than being murdered by the mysterious figure wearing the mask, and that the figure wearing the mask was simply a hallucination before they died. The characters commit suicide as they were still suffering some long-term schizophrenic effects from being in the mental asylum years ago. This is only revealed towards the end of the film where Cameron is the survivor as he was the most mentally stable out of all of them, but goes to the psychiatrist as shown at the beginning of the film to seek help as he begins to feel as if he is falling that way. Cameron then shortly returns home and begins making tea with the kettle, the camera pans and the figure is standing right behind him, before the sound of a click happens and the screen cuts to black and the film ends and the credits start rolling.