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Friday, 28 November 2014

Script


Alarm sound playing throughout this shot

Camera (hand held) goes through the front door of the house and follows through the hallway and turns to the close bedroom door, name of the studio Blue Chair Studios, name of the production company -  Spotlight Productions.

Starts to hear alarm clock noise. Camera hand held, moves down close to the floor. Follows the door opening and into a bedroom, turns to face the bed and lifts up to se 2 pairs of feet close together. Camera then follows the bodies up and stop when the man’s arms are around the woman’s stomach and neck is in shot.

Camera then moves to the alarm clock, into a close up of the clock, the man’s hand then smacks down violently on it, turning the alarm off.

Camera then cuts to the woman’s hand turning on music on a touch screen devise. Camera cuts to the wall  (lamp light turns on) opposite the lamp and on the right hand side of the screen you see the woman’s back, Lily Saunders appears on screen, and you see the majority of her shadow on the wall. She has a bare back and puts on one of the man’s shirts. And swiftly walks away towards a shelf and puts some music on.  The man then gets off the bed on her side; same as before, where you only see the left side of him and you see the majority of his shadow, Leon Harpley appears on screen. He stretches out with clenched fists and goes in the opposite direction the woman went and leaves the room. Morning coffee appears on screen.

Cuts to a shot of the woman in the bathroom looking at the back of her head then camera then turns round to the right looking at the side of her face – whilst this is happening she’s pulling off a face mask. Casting by Rama Ghanem

Cuts to the man in a different bathroom looking at the back of his head then the camera turns around to the left side of his face – whilst this is happening he’s putting shaving cream on. Music by David Cousins

Then moves to split screen, the woman’s side comes in from the right, the camera shots are behind their heads and then follows the 2 characters (who then pass each other to which the other only comes in slight shot of the others shot). Production design Emma Sherry

The man’s shot then moves away and were just looking at the woman who is in the kitchen. Close up of the woman’s fingernail scraping against the work surface, the sound playing over the music, she then taps on the work surface once, hard, with her nail. Editor Will Simons

On the sound of her nail hitting the work surface the camera immediately cuts to looking at the man’s back just pulling down his shirt, an alert tone and vibration from his phone is heard, camera cuts to him picking up his phone to see a message. It reads ‘is it done yet?’ Director of Photography James Cousins

Camera cuts to the woman in the kitchen cut a loaf of bread slightly aggressively, the sound of the bread cutting goes over the music, the man shows up behind her and puts his arms slowly around her waist. She stops cutting the bread and turns around to look at him. His hands then reach back behind her back, looking like he’s grabbing for the knife. Screenplay by Jessica Olson

The camera then cuts to him pushing down the bread in the toaster, aggressively. The camera quickly cut s cut the pouring of coffee, then to the toast popping up, the man sipping the coffee, crunching down on the toast, kissing the woman goodbye, then his hand opening the door and leaving, the door slamming goes over the music (all close ups).  Producer Zoe Ellis

Camera cuts to the woman’s hands holing a coffee cup, the camera slowly moves up to her face smiling, Director Jessica Olson the shot slowly goes black, the sound of a mug smashing is heard and then the camera turns back on and is a birds eye view shot of the woman dead on the floor. 

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Interviews: Mystery genre

Questions:

1. What would you look for in a mystery film?
A1: An unfound answer. A questionable death with an unclear answer. Clues for the audience before the police find them.
A2: Intrigue, a slowly unraveling plot, drama.

2. What don't you like in a mystery film?
A1: Cliches, such as Americans.
A2: Blatantly obvious plot twists.

3. Do you prefer classic or horror mystery?
A1: Classic
A2: Classic

4. Why?
A1: I prefer to watch a clear character development, in horror that doesn't normally happen. Classic mystery is always more in depth.
A2: No need for the excessive blood and gore. I prefer the psychological dramas.

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Interviews: Comedy genre

Questions:

1. What would you look for in a comedy film?
A1: Subtle and dry humour.
A2: Character development so that you get to know them and their personality so the jokes and humour become funnier.

2. What don't you like you like in a comedy film?
A1: Appear to be natural humour, not appear like they're really trying to be funny.
A2: Not loud and outright, obnoxious humour, I really dislike teenage American comedies.


Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Bill Milner Mixtape


The beginning of this short film has the same idea as the To Do List, and is just another example of having the credits in the scene rather than just words over the screen.

The To Do List Title Sequence


In the To Do List all of the credits are written and have been merged with the settings, like in CD's, pencil cases, posters etc. This is a good technique when wanting to focus on the setting or era that the movie is set in, although we don't want to focus on the era, the setting could be an idea - the house of a suspiciously happy/sad couple, although we'd need to have the right balance of looking at credits and actions of the actors as a murder does take place, and the audience would need to focus on that.

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Legally Blonde Opening Credits


Although my film won't be in the same genre of legally blonde or as upbeat or light as these opening credits, but I like how you never see the main characters face throughout the whole sequence but you  get shots, glimpses and hints of what her life is like and her personality. In my opening I was hoping to show glimpses of what the couples relationship was like, the initial thought would be that they were happy together but then you see the odd thing such as a text message which would arouse suspicion as to if there were any secrets between them.

Monday, 10 November 2014

Dexter morning routine


I'm thinking of following a similar credit opening to the TV series Dexter, where you see a morning routine, but there are references and hints of death and a darkness is expected during the show. I also like how there are lots of close ups and very fine detail, also how there is a point of view shot where we see what Dexter sees. I hope to use point of view shots throughout my opening (the point of views from a man and a women together, also going through a morning routine).

Idea Change

I've changed my idea from a funeral scene completely, as even making a coffin with my friend proved to be too expensive in materials. I'm sticking with a similar genre of film, where death is involved but maybe some dark humour throughout the title sequence.

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Characters

Have either 4, maybe 5 characters that the shots focus on through out the opening, and then have more minor characters in the background just to create a small crowd. I don't want a lot of people in the shots though as I want the audience to think that the person that died wasn't massively popular, but wasn't hated, they just had few very close family and friends in his life.

Rain


I was hoping to have the funeral shot in the rain as it adds to the solemn mood I'm aiming to portray, plus the characters can all have black umbrellas which would naturally darken the shots.