Thursday 3 January 2013

Thriller Opening - Shot list

Shot list:
- High angle shot of Jon walking up the stairs with the rucksack.
- Close-up/ Tracking shot of a leaf falling down and landing on the windscreen of the white van.
- Shot from within the van, camera focused on the leaf and windscreen, shift in focus to Jon at the top of the stairs walking around to the right.
- Extreme close-up of Bill's eyes (angry or emotionless expression), diegetic sound of the van starting up.
- Mid-tilt of Jon entering the car park stairwell.
- Tracking shot of the van going round the corner.
- Long shot through broken window of the van going into the car park (test shot on previous post).
- High-angle of Jon walking up stairs.
- Mid-shot of the third person checking their watch, Match on Action close up of the watch (Maybe pan to white van in the background).
- Close-up of Jon's feet as he turns the stairwell.
- Low angle/ Tilt of Jon walking up the final set of stairs.
- Mid-shot to Close-up of Jon walking through the door.*
- Point of view, Jon looking around (Spots van, shot holds for a second).
- Long shot of Jon looking around.
- Over the Shoulder/ Tracking of Jon walking up to the van with one door open, gets to the van see's third persons watch on the floor.
- Close-up of the watch getting picked up by Jon, has a smashed clock face.
- Close-up of Jon's worried face.
- Mid-shot/Tracking shot of Jon running towards stairwell doors and throwing them open, camera movement shaking to symbolize running/ add to the action. 
- Mid-shot from other side of the doors of Jon busting through and getting to the lift.
- Extreme close-up of Jon's finger repeatedly pressing the down button.
- Medium close-up of Jon impatiently waiting for lift.
- Point of view shot of lift doors opening, third person slumped dead on the lift floor with a business card placed on her.
- Worms-eye shot from third person's perspective of Jon walking in an crouching down in front of her.
- Close-up on the business card whilst Jon picks it up.
- Diegetic sound of lift doors closing, shot from the back of the lift of Jon turning around.
- Just before the lift doors close, close-up of a foot stopping the door from shutting.
*Alternate ending:
- Over-the Shoulder/ Tracking shot of Jon looking around, spots the white van with it's hazard lights flashing, doors open and begins to walk towards it.
- Tilt/ Mid Close-up of Jon's head looking inside the van, shot from within the van. (Note: diegetic sound of hazard lights ticking)
- Mid-shot, driver's side of the Van from front on, Bill is slumped over the steering wheel and Jon is looking at him.   

Note, the location we have planned our thriller opening around has recently been closed down (Anglia Square Car Park) as we recently discovered when going out to do some practice filming. We are currently awaiting the manager of he car park to come back from holiday on 8th January in order to contact him, this will be in regards to ask him if it would be possible to use the site to film if they opened it up for us. In the mean time, we are currently researching similar locations and therefore if we can't use the original location changes to the shot list may occur. On the positive side, if we are able to film in our original location, it will be completely deserted and add a greater effect to our thriller environment.  

2 comments:

  1. Your shot list is promising, do have Plan B should Anglia Square car park be unavailable. Do practice shots and do a run through if possible. Don't let the weather stand in your way.

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    1. We've finished our shooting at Anglia Square, and also incorporated an alternate ending (which I have updated in this post). However, I don't believe we've properly ended the alternate one on a cliffhanger, although the shots we do have are quite menacing!

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