Story line for Film

Scene 1:

1st shot: black out with credits. The only thing to be heard is her breathing distressed.

2nd shot: shot of just her eyes, a big close up, her eyes shifting in fear (black and white)

3rd shot: shot of just her face, a close up, her face and hair covered in blood, lying on the floor, eyes scared. 

4th shot: Switches to lady on the phone in her car, saying 'I'll see you in a bit, bye bye!' jolly and happy. Then she pulls the hand brake, in a good mood.

5th shot: long shot of the car, her turning the lights off

6th shot: getting out of the car, just showing her leg at first with high heels (good looking lady.) Gets fully out of the car.

7th shot: closing the door is a long shot.

8th shot: starts walking from his point of view. Shaky camera to show its him watching her.

9th shot: Shot of the man silhouetted, head down, so can't see his face in in the shadows.

10th shot: Woman getting scared looks behind her where kidnapper is meant to be

11th shot: What she sees of where he was but no ones there

12th shot: front tracking shot of her continuing to walk, thinking everything is fine.

13th shot: him watching her, side view, tracking pan shot to behind her

14th shot: front medium shot of both, him coming up behind her, she drops her keys and looks down to pick them up.

15th shot: she bends down to get her keys, he comes up behind to grab her, very close, his hand is about to go over her mouth. Tracking shot moving around a car blocks out actual kidnapping moves around to eventually see there is nothing there where they both were.

16th shot: back to shot 3 (black and white) in a garage

17th shot: man turned back to the camera, from elbow to arm with half of his body seen. Large spanner in his hand, lady lying on the floor further away from the camera not in focus. 

18th shot: same shot but the lady turns into focus, still breathing heavily

19th shot: floor shot of man's boots slowly walking towards her

20th shot: shot of him next to her his body next to his head looking down at her.

21st shot: shot of his hand releasing the spanner

22nd shot: floor shot of the spanner dropping to the floor, slow motion, with her face in the background but not in focus. 

23rd shot: same shot but turns the focus onto her face, she turns to look up at him in fear.

Using ideas for our film:

We watched the scene in the film 'Ransom' in which the boy gets kidnapped. We thought the way they showed this was very effective so therefore thought it would be a good idea to do something similar in our film.

At first, they switch shots from the boy to the kidnapper a number of times, eventually the kidnapper getting closer to the boy.  One of the last shots before the boy gets kidnapped is of the kidnapper in the background with the boy in focus then the focus switches to the kidnapper. Also, the music causes the tension to increase as the audience gets the feeling something bad is going to happen.

With the actual kidnapping they used a tracking shot with the boy looking towards the camera with the kidnapper behind him. As the kidnapper comes to grab the boy there is a second in which a wall is in the way so you can't see it happening. The camera continues to move when the wall finishes the audience can see that there is no one there, therefore the boy has been taken away. 

We want to use something similar to that where you are unable to see the actual kidnapping, we thought this would be more effective as professional actors would be needed to make a scene effective if the kidnapping is seen but we are unable to have professionals. So not seeing what actually happens would be more effective in what recourses we have and also it causes the audience's tension to become greater as they don't really know what happened exactly. 

Instead of using a wall to block out what is scene, we would use a car because we are going to set our kidnapping scene in a car park at night. When the lady in our film gets kidnapped it is going to suddenly switch back to later on when she is being attacked.

Ideas on Beginning of Film

We have the idea of a thriller, the very beginning being similar to that of Kill Bill. We were wanting the beginning to not make sense to the audience causing them to want to continue watching the film to understand the story line. Using a various amounts of camera shots from different angles emphasizing on different aspects to show the audience what is going on rather than explaining. We won't use any dialogue because we think that using dialogue with unproffesional actors would make it the impact of the film less effective and also, speech usually ruins the 'fear factor' which is what we want to create during our video. 

In this video I worked with Katie and Delia again but this time we made the conversation and story line a lot more simply, concentrating more on the shots we are taking rather than whether the story made sense or not. We used a 180 degree shot and stuck to the rule when we did over the shoulder shots to make it more effective by making the audience understand which character is which and where they are. We also used a medium shot when opening the door and a far away shot when they were walking up the stairs. This was a good practice to try and keep the camera as still as possible to make it look as professional as possible also, in using a various amount of shots. To improve my video I would use a camera stand to keep the camera as still as possible when shooting.