Synoptic treatment.

For our coursework this year we have chosen to do a piece of text based around the horror genre. We have comprised a main story for our piece and it consists of the following:

It starts with a new report of the anniversary of a young girl who died 20 years previously on her 16th birthday. The new reporter explains that she was tortured by her mother and father and later that day died in hospital.
The next scene you see is that off a normal family which consists of a mother, father and young girl who is the age of 6. The mother and father is about to go for a night out and has hired a baby sitter. The baby sitter arrives and the adults go leaving her with the young child for the whole night.
As the evening gets darker you begin to see that something is not completely right within the household. The audience sees quick flashes of a teenage girl who is dressed within a hospital gown wondering around the house. The first incident that the baby sitter experience’s is when she is watching television and it flicks onto white noise. As this happens the door is being knocked upon in a hurried and panicked manner. The babysitter rushes to the door, believing someone is in serious danger, and opens the door to find no one there. As the camera pans around you see the dead teenage girl stood behind the baby sitter but as the babysitter turns after closing the door she suddenly disappears.
The next scary even to happen is when the babysitter looks at her reflection in the mirror, this is a key scene as it is the first time the babysitter gets to view the dead girl. As she is gazing in the mirror she sees a strange ghostly figure walk past her but yet again as she turns around no one is there. She then runs in to the living to check the news report (after remembering the story on earlier that night about the girl) and as she enters the room you see the door begin to close behind her, this is again the young girl but only the audience is able to view her.
After this the young child she is looking after walks down the stairs complaining about her ‘imaginary friend’ not being able to be quiet. The babysitter sits down with the young girl and starts to sooth her. She walks into the kitchen to grab the young child a glass of milk, as she returns back into the living room you see the dead teenagers stood over the child making her look at her eyes. The babysitter hysterically tries to pull the child out of the trance but fails desperately.
Eventually she goes to bed and wakes in the middle of the night to the duvet being yanked from her and to the scratching of nails down her mirror with the words ‘get out’ written upon it. Panicking she runs into the child’s room and grabs her. However, the child refuses to leave and yet again enters her trance like mode. The babysitter then turn around and sees the dead girl screaming. Panicking again she quickly runs to the phone to call the police. At the end the audience sees a black screen and only hears the phone call. They hear the babysitter screaming for help and then a screeching yell and the hang up tone which represents only one thing, the death of the baby sitter.