2. Treatment for Snows Hill
Working Title: Snows Hill, I have called the TV Programme ‘Snows Hill’ as it is the
fictional village where the programme is set.
Synopsis: In 2032 a meteor struck earth in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean
wiping out most of South America and Australia while creating serious earthquakes all
around the globe, leaving the whole world in shock, misery and broken . Weeks later
huge aircrafts fell from the sky hovering over and inspecting what had being left of the
planet. These aircrafts landed and tall creatures from other planet with heavy armour
and artillery exited the aircrafts, human approached them in anticipation that they
would save the human race, but the creatures shot down anything they crossed. A few
weeks after the extra terrestrials had landed all the emergency radio stations had
being shut down and everyone now knew of the new race on planet earth. The planet
was then divided into two; the Disciples: those that believed that the aliens were Gods
and had come down to destroy earth because of what it had become, and the Cynics:
those that didn’t believe in the Gods and gave them the name, the Slaughterers. The
story follows a small group of Cynics living in an unharmed village in England . The
group have to put aside there differences to become a stronger unit, work together to
survive though out the up and coming winter and defend themselves against the
Slaughterers and the Disciples.
3. Format: Shot with a Nikon D1300 and will be distributed though YouTube and our
Webpage for the programme.
Estimated Duration: Short clip will be 2 minutes but the overall episode 30 minutes long
Intended Audience: The programme isn’t really targeted at any gender as there is
storylines with include hunting missions which male audience would find interesting and
others that include romantic storyline that would appeal to females as well. The intended
target age for the programme would be somewhere between the ages of 15-35. This is
because we are aiming for a show targeted at the same demographic as E4 and such
shows like Misfits and Skin, but also we want to target it at older audience as that would
expand the popularity of E4 because are research shows that the ages 15-35 are the age
with the highest viewing ratings.
Style: The show is sort of a cross between The Walking Dead (FX) and Independence
Day (film starring Will Smith). It’s a Science Fictional / Supernateral Drama. The show
has a running storyline though out each individual series however there is a different
main storyline throughout each show. The show has elements of humour and element of
complete drama.
4. Rationalise: The target audience from my research told me that they would like to see
more dramas on E4 similar to those of Misfits with the comedy side to it. My idea
should be commissioned because it is an originally idea never done before on E4 and
could make an interesting dramatic show which could attract a wide audience.
Feasibility: This show would be workable as when I was thinking of the storyline I was
basing it around an area where I lived or knew about so there would be now cost of
transport or location as the setting is literally right outside my doorstep, so this would
speed up the efficiency of our production. Props we may have to spend money on but
nothing major need to be spent.
Budget: For the 2 minute clip location would be sorted so the only thing we need to
spend things on is props which wouldn’t even cost that much, and we may already as
a group have some of the props we need or may know people with items we could use
as props.
Deadlines: Pre-production and getting everything ready to film should only take about
3 weeks or even less, and soon as that is finish we can start working on production
straight away which should only take about 1 week to film. Post-production the editing
stage should take a few weeks to edit up and we should aim to finish 3 or more weeks
before the deadline as this gives us plenty of chances to clear up any mistakes and
create a will designed show to the best of our ability.