Treatment Sheet:Updated

Working title
Lukos

Genre
Crime
Horror
Sci-Fi

Duration
2 minutes 30 seconds - 3 minutes

Logline
Following the murder of his housemate, an ordinary teenager has to deal with the discovery that his blood-thirsty mythical alter-ego was the killer- and this alter-ego's actions.

USP
A realistic-noir, serious-take on a werewolf killer, within the traditional horror-crime drama format, seen in Broadchurch/Strangers

Plot

In relatively quiet park, we see that a young man, Rich, is walking along a pathway. It's obviously late; past 12am. There's a full moon lighting up the scene.

Suddenly, there's a switch in perspective. Camera is now in first person. It's in night vision mode, so green and lit up. We are peering through a bush, hiding from view. Obvious the other person cannot see the camera.

Sudden cut to person being attacked. Succession of jump cuts increase the tension. There are glimpses of claws, but nothing specific. We hear muted screams, and suddenly it all fades out. Camera moves to a full moon. The full moon graphic matches to the titles.

As the titles end, we cut to a bedroom. An alarm is ringing. The room is a mess. Not many scattered clothes, but a few scraps of fur and coats are all over the floor. It's a fur jacket, ripped apart. The main character, our protagonist, Luke, begins to wake up. His shirt is slightly ripped, scuffed up, with hints of dried blood. It looks like he got into a fight. The camera goes wobbly, switches positions (2 different angles- jump cut) and the view is doubled and tripled as it's communicated to us that he is somewhat delirious. He seems drunk to the non-discerning viewer.

We follow him as he gets up and leaves the room to go to the bathroom.

The bathroom, we see Luke brushing his teeth. He has a bone/tooth/something in his mouth that he removes and looks at suspiciously. He then brushes it away and continues with washing his face.

We now are now cut to a living room. We see a girl, Clara, watching TV. Luke walks into the room. We see that he's well dressed now. Clara pauses the TV, looks at him and asks him where he was last night. She notes that he came home late, late last night. Also puts in that his fur jacket is all ripped up. She asks if he got into a fight. Luke thinks but he can't answer properly- he says he can't remember. She mentions that he really should try to get off the drugs or alcohol, and she just keeps looking at him. There's hints at a romantic relationship, or former one at-least.  He isn't as dazed as he was before, but he's still not himself.

From through the door of the room, another girl, Elizabeth emerges. She acknowledges Luke and asks if he met Rich last night. He isn't back yet, and isn't picking up the phone, she says.

As she finishes, the land-line phone starts ringing. Luke picks it up.

On the phone, the police. They ask if this is where Richard Humes lives. Are you friends of his? they ask. Luke replies affirmatively. He's been found killed. Please come to the police station, we can send vehicles around. We see the look of shock on their faces as the camera cuts to the End.

Characters
Finn Taylor: Protagonist
Rich Humes: Victim
Clara O'Riley: Friend
Elizabeth Rown: Friend

Visual elements
Filmed in 2:1 aspect ratio
High quality colour grading, film quality
Low-key lighting, typical indoors lighting
Sunlight on outdoor scenes

Audio elements
Emotional music
Alarms
TV dietetic sound
Action sounds: screams, slashing


Themes in show as a whole
Coming to terms with a tragedy
Coming to terms with one's self
Friendship
Mental health
Modern life


Requirements and resources
Outdoors & Indoors locations
At-least 4 actors
Multiple cameras

Audience
18-35 year old millennials
ABC1
liberal-minded
Cross-gender appeal
Viewers of typical ITV drama

Convergence
Marketable actors, interesting characterisations- how actors interpret their roles and what they think of it