Treatment of Pandora's Mansion

PANDORA’S MANSION (treatment)

Rachel and Andrew Evans are in the car. Andrew is driving the gravelly road (tracking shot from the back of the passenger’s seat on the outside) we are able to see Rachel’s arm hanging from the car window as she feels the breeze of the midday. *I want you back* is playing all throughout the first scene, and the characters sing along to the song. (Match on action of the car) as they drive, different angles of the car are shown, (tracking from a high angle behind the car), the front of the car where we can see the couple singing along,  and after that the camera turns to the old church that they’re passing by and finally worm’s eye view of the car passing. 

They arrive to the mansion. An extreme long shot is used to show the whole mise-en-scene of the car arriving and the frontage of the house. The vehicle stops in front. (Close up of Andrew’s hand turning off the radio) The music stops. The couple get off the car and talk as they walk towards the trunk. Shot reverse shot is used between the two characters as they converse. When reaching the trunk (medium shot), Andrew gives Rachel a big cardboard box which says ‘clothes’. As Andrew bothers her with a comment he makes, she bursts into the mansion (on shoulder….).  

(Montage used to show how Rachel puts her earphones to listen to music). Rachel walks along the narrow and long corridor, (long shot). As she walks past the first door on the left, it opens alone however she does not notice as she does not see nor does she hear it. It slams and she turns around (close up). As nothing appears different, she enters the main bedroom to leave her box of clothes. 

Rachel looks around the room in order to find a place to leave the box (POV shot). She puts it on top of the bed and walks towards the window (long shot of the room to establish current place she is in). (Close up) She moves the curtain from her eyesight and looks down at Andrew as he takes more things out of the car (POV after close up to show what she is looking at). Rachel hears a weird noise as if something is moved under the bed (medium shot). She approaches it and kneels down (match on action). An empty space is found as if something has been removed recently (medium shot). Loud crash is then heard in the corridor.

She runs quickly to the corridor (long shot high angle) and then she peeks from the door (medium shot eye level). Her face is tense and the non diagetic sound increases in tempo and pitch to create tension. For a few seconds, the audience does not know what is making Rachel look so terrified, but then the camera turns and the audience sees a small music box playing music, the glasses broken from the picture that just fell, the door open again, and “Welcome” written in the box (zoom in). The scene ends with Rachel’s scream that echoes into a black screen, showing, The End.