shooting script

shot	Shot description	Audio and dialogue
1	The Very first shot is of a blank, dark screen	The dialogue is a conversation between therapist and Morris in an office, there may also be some white noise to distort viewer.
2	We then see several shots of random household objects to show disorientation	Possible white noise, the conversation between the two characters becomes blurred and hard to make out.
3	We then see a close up of Morris’s eyes after he’s been asked to remember what he has done in the past week to show that he is imagining it.	No dialogue, possibly some whooshing sounds and noises to show the transition.
4	Mid shot of him getting out of bed	No audio or dialogue
5	Over the shoulder shot of him walking out of the door	White noise in chunks to show lack of organisation in his life
6	Close up of his face as he walks out of his room	Possible white noise
7	Low angle shot as he walks into the bathroom	Sound of a creaking door

8	Over the shoulder shot of him entering the bathroom	Sound of the door and footsteps
9	Same over the shoulder shot, but from a longer distance of him looking into the mirror	No sound
10	Close up of the tap as water comes out	Sound of running water
11	High angle shot of character washing his face	Sound of running water
12	Revert back to the over the shoulder shot of character looking into the mirror	Water tap is turned off- hypereal sound
13	Swap to the other shoulder as he looks in the mirrored cupboard for some medication.	Sound of rifling through items in the cupboard, still no dialogue.
14	Revert back to the original over the shoulder shot as character realises that when he closes the mirror someone is standing behind him	Sound of the medication rattling and gasp of the character.
15	Camera moves with the character and jolts very quickly to where the other character was seen, but when it turns around fully there I nobody there	White noise or whooshing noise to create the air of disorientation.

16	Camera moves to a close up of the characters face when he is confused when there is nobody behind him	Sound of white noise suddenly stops to restore the state if equilibrium.
17	Camera then moves to a close up of the character taking the medicine with a glass of water.	Sound of the dripping tap.
18	Reverts back to the original over the shoulder shot to show Morris putting his medication back in the mirrored cupboard.	Sound of the Medication rattling, along with the dripping tap and closing of the cupboard.
19	When the cupboard closes we see the character in the gas mask behind Morris again	White noise returns but even louder
20	Camera jolts around very quickly to the view of the mysterious gas mask character	White noise is building up by this point.
21	Trumpet shot of the gas mask character as he tears up a photo of a girl	The noise has reached its loudest point by now
22	Shot becomes closer and closer of the photo he is tearing up	White noise is continuing
23	The shot cuts out very suddenly as it becomes closer and closer to the character.	The noise completely stops with the shot

24	Shot cuts out to the character walking in a field. Transition is very rapid to represent his loosening frame of mind,	The noise stops at the exact time the shot changes
25	Mid shot of the character walking very quickly through the field.	Natural noises
26	Rapid cuts from one point of view to another	White noise in patches
27	We see the character from one side then the other walking, shots swap very rapidly over and over	White noise continues on and off
28	Close up of characters face is seen very rapidly amidst all of the fast paced shots of him walking	White nose is becoming loud again
29	Mid shot of character as he stops and notices the girl from the picture	White noise has stopped, no sound
30	Long shot of the girl walking in front after Morris realises its her	Creeping noise as he realises what he has to do, violins.
31	Close up of Morris as he turns around to see his imaginary character.	White noise as the gas mask character makes an appearance

32	Long shot of the imaginary character standing in the trees pointing towards the girl to show he wants her dead	White noise is building up again
33	Shot slowly zooms in on character for eerie effect.	White noise, still no dialogue
34	Cuts to close up of Morris looking from the gas mask character then towards the girl	White noise is now even louder
35	The shot breaks away to the back of Morris as he starts heading for the girl at speed	White noise stops the second he starts walking
36	Long shots of him walking after the girl	Natural noises
37	Rapid different points of view shots of him edited very rapidly	Heavy breathing as he gets closer
38	Mid shot of him getting closer and closer	Breathing getting heavier and white noise building up
39	Shot editing slows down suddenly and we see a low angle shot of Morris carrying the dead girl in a body bag	All noise stops as the shot  changed, can only hear the dragging of the bag

                              

38	Continuous shot of him dragging the dead body getting further and further away	Dragging of the bag
39	Close up of the character as he is dragging the bag	Heavy breathing
40	Shot fades out and we see Morris back at home	No sound
41	We see an establishing shot of the room and Morris with his head in his hands on the floor
42	the shot becomes closer and closer until we can see his face clearly ashamed of what he’s done
43	After the shot has started to move away we see the alter ego character moving in behind Morris	White noise begins to build up again
44	After zooming out the shot moves in again as the gas mask character starts to wrap his hands around Morris	White noise starts to build up again
45	Shot cuts out rapidly to end the sequence, our last view is of the alter ego submerging Morris with his hands.	White noise cuts out at the exact moment the shot ends.

final idea broke into steps

1)    Rapid jump cuts of random objects

2)    The sound of character gets questioned by the psychiatrist, but you don’t actually see the scene.

3)    Dream transition scene when he is asked how his week has been  shows its all in his head.

4)    Character washing his face in the bathroom

5)    Character gets something out of mirrored cupboard

6)    After he closes the door he sees the antagonist, who is not there when he turns around. But the second time he notices him in the mirror he is there when he turns around to show how he is just in his head.

7)    Character turns around to see the antagonist with a picture of a girl

8)    Antagonist silently rips up the picture to show he wants her dead

9)    Close up of protagonist who realises what he must do

10) Fade out of the scene to show transition

11) Character is seen collecting items for his trip to work.

12)  Location changes to park, where he is journeying to work

13)  Alter ego character is seen pointing towards a girl.

14) Main character then follows her through the park in the mask to show he has become the alter ego

15)  After a pursuit character is seen dragging a bin bag behind him in the mask

16)  Character is back home ashamed of what he’s done

17)  Alter ego looms over him

target audience research answers

from our questions we asked various people we have developed what our general consenus for our qeustions were:

1)      What is your favourite thriller film and why? From this question we  had various different answers such as the saw films,batman and mission impossible. Peoples main response was anything that they find gripping and hard to turn away from.  From this we can take that people done have a specific type of film they only like, but they will infact watch anything that leaves them on the edge of their seat. Therefore we have a lot of freedom in what genre we chose, but we have to make it entertaining and gripping.

 2) Do you prefer to come straight in at the action or have a slow build up?  From this question the main response was that people like to come straight in at the action ( stage of disequilibream) because it will hook them in to watching the rest of the film. This was a positive response for us because we only have 2 minutes for our opening seqeunce so we have no choice but to come straight in at the action, but from our research we can suggest that people prefer this as an opener because it sets up the rest of the film.

3) What’s your favourite sub-genre thriller: e.g. Horror,crime,action,physcological etc?   for us this was the most important question because it shows what kind of thrillers people are interested in the most. Peoples general answer was either action thriller or horror thriller, there was also one answer for physcological ( our genre). Although this was not an ideal answer it shows that people are still interested in physcological thrillers. From this we can take that we should encouporate a slight amount of action. Our sequence doesn't have to be set to one genre, and we have to try and appeal to the mass audience.
4)       How would you like a thriller film to start? What would hook you in as an opening sequence? The majority of people that we asked simply said that the opening sequence has to have an important event in it in order for them to bne hooked into watching the rest of film, this was again another postive respone for us because it meant that people didn't want a certain type of opening sequence,just something that was grippingand entertaining. Which for us means that we have a large amount of freedom with whatever we want to do for our sequence so long as we make it gripping and entertaining for the audience.

  

5)    What do you think the ideal age range for a thriller would be?  This was our most difficult question because people don't tend to know that much about a thriller film. However our most popular answer was of a younger audience because they are into more blood and gore now than the older audience, which is a common feature in a thriller. This was again another positve respone for us because it means that it fits in with our target age range,which is 16-25. So this question proved very useful because it meant that we could use these ideas to portray in our film because we had caputured the target audience.

To conclude, our questions were very helpful in the planning process of our opening sequence because we gathered a lot of information about what our target audience wants from a thriller film,and the best way we can try to achieve this. We now know what we have to do to meet these preferences.

feedback sheet analysis

From our feedback sheets we found out a number of different things we could do with our film to make it better, and also what’s already good about it.

It was good for us to have feedback from the rest of our class because that’s the target age range that we are after anyway so it means we will get a really accurate idea of how effective our opening sequence will be when it’s all finished.

One hundred percent of our classmates thought that the sun genre we chose for our film                     ( physiological thriller), was the right choice,  they felt that it would work as a sub-genre and fitted with the idea of our film. Which means we have made the correct initial choices for our opening sequence.

When we asked our classmates what they thought of the entire plot of our film, that would follow on from our opening the majority of them said that it is a great idea for a film, but only if we can pull it off properly. Because it is a complex idea, having also got other people’s opinions we now need to make sure we get everything right so our film actually works because if we do it in a poor way the final product won’t be as good because it is not a simple idea, it will be very difficult to film, our classmates pointed this out for us.  A small minority of classmates said that they thought our idea would be slightly impractical to film, because we need an older actor which is very hard to find, especially one that would understand the plot of our film. This highlighted to us that we maybe need to change our plot slightly in order to make it easier to film for ourselves, in order to maximise the potential of our final product.

When we asked our classmates if they think our film idea appeals to our target audience ( 15-30) the vast majority agreed with us and stated that they thought the film is very current with what people are watching at the moment. And also captured the imagination of teenagers and young adults.  This was good for us because it meant that we had sold our film to our target audience which would lead us to believe that it was going to be relatively successful.  Another small minority of people suggested that our target audience should be slightly more mature (25-35) for example, this created a bit of a contrast for us because it meant that we needed to consider that the entire plot for our film might be slightly too grown up for the younger audience. Therefore we need to change the plot slightly in order to appeal to the greatest age range possible in order to maximise its success.

When we asked our classmates it they thought our narrative, characters, locations and genre was introduced well. Most of them simply put yes, which is again very encouraging for us because it meant that we are meeting all of the needs for our target audience, leading us to think that if our classmates like it then it would also be liked on a larger scale also. 3 or 4 surveys suggested that they were all introduced well, however it might be hard to make our current actor look older in order to make the sequence more realistic. This has been a reoccurring theme for us from our surveys and it means that we might have to reconsider our choice of actors or change the storyline in order to make it more realistic and suitable for a younger actor.

When we asked our classmates ‘do you think we are right to represent a drug addict in a negative stereotype?’ everyone answered in a positive way, which suggest we are right to portray a drug addict in a negative way. Which again is encouraging but since then we have decided to move away from the ‘ drugs’ theme and focus more on the idea that our character has mental problems. This is mainly because the majority of our group are basing their film around drugs and we want to be slightly more niche and unique with where we go with our film.  So although this wasn’t one of our questions, the opportunity to present our idea to the class meant that we changed our plot for the better.

Our next question was ‘ do you think we will be able to achieve the mood and tone we are hoping to?’ again, everyone replied with a positive answer. This for us was the most encouraging question because it meant that people liked our general storyline, and they appreciated what we were trying to achieve.

Our final question was ‘ do you think this idea will grasp the audiences attention?’ once again we got all of our responses back with a positive answer, this again was extremely encouraging for us and meant that we didn’t need to change a huge amount of our sequence or idea because it means that in general people from our target audience felt that we had a good idea providing that we can pull it off. So for us in general the feedback session was very helpful because it showed us that in general people like our film, but also highlighted what faults we have, it gave us the opportunity to get an outside perspective from our film in order to make sure we had the best final product possible.