Opening sequence for shoot

Below is a rough edit of the opening sequence for the shoot. We will use this - along with our shot list to be able to properly frame the shoots.




- Steph, Angela & Zen

Updated script

We have changed the bit in the sequence when the dialogue occurs but the girl is still on the phone. She is being woken up by her phone early in the moring and says the following:

Uh hello? What? Can't this wait til later? I've literally just got to bed. Yeah. Bye.


- Steph

Updated shot list

Shot Number & Description

Evening
1. Foot sounds with black screen
2. A long shot of the road with creepy/shifty camerawork. Movement is from the road side of the car to the pavement side. You cannot see the girl in shot.
3. Feet move into and out of the shot. It is a low level angle from her right hand side.
4. A shot of the feet from - close up - low angle.
5. Extreme long of girl walking down road - from her right hand side.
6. Low angle looking up of girl stumbling through shot with champagne bottle. On her right hand side.
7. Girl stumbling/ tripping from on her right hand side. She is holding the champagne bottle and the camera is slightly behind her. It is of her shoulders/face.
8. A long shot of the girl walking along the road towards us - from across the road.
9. Backwards track - low level and of feet. She walks out of the right of the screen (in direction of her path).
10. Girl is walking up the path to her front door/ arrives at front door. A closeup/over the shoulder shot.
11. Low floor shot from inside the house. She unlocks the door - opens it - comes in - drops keys - bends down to pick them up - staggers out of shot.
12. Long/medium shot of shelf and mirror - the keys are already on shelf and the girl is staggering up the stairs - there is a flash of black in the mirror.

Morning
13. Pan/track of glass/alkaseltzers - camera moves closer to bedside table and girls phone rings during this and she picks it up/begins dialogue.
14. She puts her phone down on the bedside table and grasps for cigarettes.
15. The front door closes - extreme close up and a bit of foot.
16. Close up of the girl putting cigarette in her mouth and lighting it.
17. Lighting cigarette, takes a drag and lays back.
18. Close up of ashtray and cigarette box as she stubs it out.
19. Girl gets out of bed.
20. From underneath the bed - girls feet hit the floor and walks to table.
21. Takes alkaseltzer out of pack and drops into glass of water. Takes glass of water and leaves shot.
22. She walks right to left in frame and out of the open door.
23. Close up of light switch being turned on.
24. She walks down the hallway.
25. Close up floor level of feet moving in and out of shot.
26. Movement of camera through banisters - up stairs - girls feet walking along hallway and towards bathroom.
27. Shot of shelf- at shelf level - girl puts glass onto shelf then proceeds into the bathroom.
28. Shot of hand on banisters.
29. Close up of girls face looking in mirror.
30. Close up of girl turning on tap.
31. Girl washing her face.
32. Low level from inside bathroom of his feet walking into bathroom and stopping behind hers.
33. Close up of her drying her face on towel.
34. She takes the towel away from her face (ECU) and then hand grabs her mouth.

- Steph & Zen

Shot List

Zen And Nick

Shooting Expenses

Zen:

• T-shirts Grey-£3.00
• Food- 3 Turkish delights 59p x 3
• lion bar x2 and crunchie 45 x 3
• diet coke 50p
• pringles 59p
• Lychee Rubicon 59p
• Lighter £2
• Dairy milk 45p
• Custard Creams 45p
• Hobnob Creams 75p
• Lucozade 89p
• Flapjack-79p

Steph:

• 1 Alkaselzter - £2.30
• 1 Alkaseltzer - £3.79

Angela:

• 2 x packets of Alka-seltzers[£5]
• 1 packet of twenty Malboro Light cigarettes [£5]
• 1 packet of ten Malboro Light cigarettes [£3]
• Sparkly Tights [£10]

Nick:

• Mask - £1.50
  
  

Everyone: Also the flowers for Becca's mum =)

Possible price of £12.00

£4.00 each

Feedback on Rush

This is our rush again, and Mrs Blackborow gave us some feedback on how she thinks it went which we discussed as a group:

• The girl needs to be walking faster in the shots
• The outside shots are too dark so we decided we need to set up an extra porch light or film earlier on when it is lighter (although if we film earlier it will be hard to keep continuity between the shots as it will get darker whilst we are filming) - however she liked our change of angles throughout that section
• The closeup shots at the beginning of her waking up are too still and we need more variation in our camerawork at this point - so we plan to use more varied types of shot and we plan to include more tracks and pans as well to introduce movement
• There should be a longer shot on the alka-seltzer fizzing in the glass

After this feedback as a group we also discussed some more points which we feel we should include/improve upon in our actual shoot:

• At the end of the sequence the girl shouldn't be dragged out of the frame, but rather the last shot of her is the kidnapper's hand on her face and then the title would flash up on a black/blank screen
• The hallway shot of the girl leaving her room and walking down the hallway should be moved to a slightly different position - we can move the camera into a doorway which gives us a better view of the hallway to make this sequence run smoother in the editing
• The credits should possibly go over the action rather than on a title screen to keep the opening moving at a steady pace
• There should possibly be a closeup on on the girl's face when she is being grabbed by the kidnapper in order to show her expression more

- Steph