Tuesday 2 December 2008

Ideas

· Genre: psychological thriller
· Locations: His bedroom – white/plain, park bench, car, her bedroom-colourful, bright light

Idea:
· 360 pan start and end at the door
· Man walks in – don’t see his face
· Drops bag on floor. Medium / close up
· Tracking shot of his legs and feet. Tilt up to show the girl on the door – POV slow zoom in
· Flash back when he took the pictures of her on a bench.
· OSS of man in car at the girl on the bench reading
· ECU of man’s lips licks them. Zoom out to show the
· Photos of one young girl covering wardrobe, walls, windows.
· Old man (Kristy’s dad?)
· Teenage girl.
· Photos on TV and PC wallpaper with her Bebo or Facebook page on screen.
· Old man’s room plain colours – dull life.
· Photos spread on the bed.
· Fantasying of the girl in his room. POV from him seeing her where the joiner is and she fades out and shows the joiner on the door.
· Flash back – man in car taking pictures of girl on bench.
· 360 degrees pan of dull room ends with man walking through door.
· Man stokes picture of girl.
· Man under the girls bed and her on top of bed, he has a sadistic smile. Man stroking one her teddies and the girl sleeping innocently.
· Split screen girl on her bed looking towards man doing the same, she fades out.


Full description and shots
Genre: psychological thriller

Locations: His bedroom – white/plain; park bench; car; her bedroom-colourful, bright lights, girly, innocent


1. Medium shots of picture around the room.
Silence
Motivated cut (To start the scene)
Cutting rate to every set of pictures.
Dissolve into the next shot.
Credits introduction


2. 360 degrees pan starting and finishing at the door.
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.
Silence
Cut


3. Medium shot of man walking into the room; we don’t see his face just his body.
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.

Silence
Cut


4. Extreme close up of his bag as he throw it down on the sofa.
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out

Only diagetic movement sounds stand out.

5. Pan from the sofa too the shelf, the man puts his camera down really gently.

All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.
Cut
Only diagetic movement sounds


6. Pan from door to the bed and tilts down when he sits on the bed.

All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out
Silence
Cut


7. Point of view shot of him looking at the door and sees the girls figure

All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.
High pitched music box music


8. Point of view shot of him looking at the door and he see the photo joiner he has made of her.
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.
Figure dissolves
Music box continues

9. Extreme close up shot of him lying back on his bed and closes his eyes.
Heavy steady breathing in foreground, dull, muted noise in the background
Motivated cut into a flash back.

10. Point of view of the girl on a bench.
Heavy steady breathing in foreground, dull, muted noise in the background
Distorted colour or colour cast, bright
Cut


11. Extreme close up of his mouth,
Heavy steady breathing in foreground, dull, muted noise in the background
Duller colours, greys and white.

12. Reverse zoom into close up of his face with camera in front of it.
Heavy steady breathing in foreground, dull, muted noise in the background
Duller colours, greys and white.
Cut


13. Over the shoulder shot of her reading a book on the bench.
Heavy steady breathing in foreground, dull, muted noise in the background.
Cut
14. Lens effect, snap shots
Fast paced/ subjective time.
Sound quickens, fast forwarding sounds
Cut rhythm.

15. Dissolves back into the room with a point of view shot of the photo joiner. Slow zoom out.
Deep boom
Bright colours on photos
Cut


16. High angled medium shot of him getting up.
Silence
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.
Cut


17. Over shoulder shot of him picking a picture off his bed.
Silence
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.

18. Over the shoulder shot of him stroking the girls face on photo joiner.
Silence
Photo-joiner brighter than the room.
Cut


19. Medium shot of him walking to the window. Light blocked out
All colours muted, dull greys and whites only, this will make the pictures stand out.
Silence
Cut

20. Extreme close up of him pinning his last picture on the window.
Music1 begins suddenly - loud
Light disappears when the picture is pinned to the window.
Cut


21. Completely black screen
Music1 continues

22. Fades into an over the shoulder shot in his car, looking out his front window (night time).
Music1 continues - diagetic
Cut

23. Medium pan of the car parking down the street from the girl’s house.
Music1 continues quieter – diagetic
Leads into the next scene with a cutting rate.

24. Snapshot effect of the girl coming out of the house.
Music1 continues louder – diagetic
Cutting rate

25. Medium shot of girl at the bottom of her drive and the car starts to turn.
Music1 continues – diagetic
Cut

26. Long shot of car going round the corner.
Music1 continues – quiter diagetic
Cut

27. Tracking shot of girl’s feet walking down the street and hear a car being turned off and a door
shutting.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut

28. Extreme close up tracking shot of man’s feet walking.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Fades out

29. Medium shot of gate; hand over gate unlocks the bolt.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Fades in.

30. Extreme close up of the handle lifting up and gate start to open.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

31. Medium shot of man walking through the gate, not showing his face.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

32. Pans to follow the man walking round the conservatory. Watches him walking from behind
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

33. Point of view shot of the man looking underneath a plant pot gets the back door key. Tilts up to
show the door
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

34. Low angled shot of him opening the door with the key.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

35. Low level camera, close up of door open and his feet walking through the door into the house.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

36. Medium shot, Pan of him walking through the kitchen.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

37. Extreme close up of him touching one of her jackets on a kitchen chair.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

38. Medium shot of kitchen door, can see him walking towards the door through the glass
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

39. He walks round and up the stairs.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

40. Close up through the banister of his feet walking up the stairs.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

41. Long shot from the house, of the girl walking up the street.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic
Cut/Continuity editing

42. The camera reverse zooms, and moves backwards through the front and porch doors as though actually moving through the solid door, shows girl coming in through the front door and taking off her shoes. Takes off coat. Walks past the camera, pans to show headphones and lead.
Music1 louder – non-diagetic fades into diagetic music from her headphones.
Cut/Continuity editing

43. High angled shot from top of the stairs, tracks her walking up the stairs. Pans her round the landing
Diagetic music2 from her headphones.
Cut/Continuity editing

44. Medium shot of her walking towards the camera from the spare room, takes headphones out. Turns off i-pod
Music2 gets louder as she takes out headphones then suddenly stops.
Cut/Continuity editing

45. Medium shot of her back walking towards the wardrobe and opening it.
Music3 fades into the shot,
Cut/Continuity editing

46. She is surprised and looks up towards the mirror, close up of her face in the reflection, and she looks panicked and turns towards her bedroom door.
Music3 becomes higher in the mix
Cut/Continuity editing

47. Pan from next to the door of her walking towards the door, the camera moves through the wall and tracks her walking through the door. She steps down the step.
Music3 increases in the mix as she gets closer to the door.
Cut/Continuity editing – making it look like the camera is following her throught the wall.

48. Pans round to extreme close up of her face, shocked. Pause. Extended too long.
Music3 quietens, high pitched strings, high in the mix.

Cut/Continuity editing

49. Point of view shot from her to the room, empty, pans room
Music3 pitched strings continues.
Cut/Continuity editing


50. She walks over to the stereo, extreme close up of her pressing the off button.
Strings slowly fade out; music3 becomes louder, and stops as she presses the button
Cut/Continuity editing

51. Pan from the stereo of her walking over to her bed.
Just diagetic sounds
Cut/Continuity editing

52. Cuts to close up of her head/shoulders as she sits down, blowing air in relief. She lies down on her bed.
Strings slowly fade in again
Cut/Continuity editing

53. Pedestal shot of her head on the pillow, down to him underneath the bed smiling, teddy bear in hand. Reverse zoom to show both of them in a sideways two shot.
Strings continue to get louder. One click of the camera and becomes a still frame.
Cut/Continuity editing

54. Fade out to black screen the title of the film.
Strings continue to get louder

1 comment:

Miss R said...

Great level of detail. You have put a lot of work into this so far. Looking forward to seeing the result.