Shot List

We are filming tomorrow morning and so have written a list of the shots we want to get, as well as storyboarding them. We have also listed a couple of options for the same shot, so we have enough footage to edit with. I've put the shots we may want to put titles on in bold.

1. Bookshelf
2. High angle desk with folders and scales
3. Pull focus shot of the bed with teddies
4. Make-up in front of a mirror with pills
5. Door handle
6. Handheld close up of girl entering room
7. Stationary wide of girl entering room
8. Side on long shot of desk- sits down
9. High angle from shelf on desk
10. Mid shot of back of girl
11. Wide angle goes to bag
12. Close up high angle on hands reaching into bag - put money in there
13. Handheld shot of girl walking to desk
14. Wide shot of girl walking to desk
15. Mid shot of putting phone on speaker as it rings
16. Extreme CU of eye looking down at phone
17. ECU of phone ringing
18. ECU of fingers tapping on desk
19. Low angle shot from phone POV
20. Handheld girl looking out of window
21. Stationary midshot girl looking out window
22. CU girl hanging up
23. Shallow depth of field girl's face while on phone to Seb
24. Focus pulls as girl turns to see little sister

CUT TO BLACK

We will have to do two versions of each of these shots for the clean and explicit versions of our opening.

Location

Today we were at my house for a location visit and began to think about how we would set up the filming as we shoot tomorrow. We decided to shoot the whole opening in my room as this would allow us to think about mise-en-scene in more detail.

Shot Inspiration- Phone Call

Our new idea involves a phone call and so we were looking at how phone calls were often filmed.

This shot is from YouTube short film "Strangers in a Bed". We want to use a close up like this in our opening.

Or like this shot from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

We also want to use shots similar to the phone conversation in "Taken".

We want to use a low angle shot like this one

Script Version 2

We have now also done a clean version of our script.

Script Draft 1

Today we began work on our script. We plan to write two scripts, one with swearing and one without and then we will see which works best when editing. This is the swearing version.

Update Vlog

First Storyboards

We began to storyboard our new film opening idea today.

Initial Ideas

We have been coming up with new ideas for our film opening. Here is a outline of our new plan. We will now storyboard these ideas.

Change of plans, again.

After editing all of our footage together we realised that the narrative of our opening isn't clear and there is no tension built up. So it's back to the drawing board. Again.

1st Idea Film Opening

This is the first draft of our film opening.

Editing Day 1- Tracking Shots

Today we began to edit our film opening. We wanted to have tracking shots in our opening, however the footage that we got of our protagonist walking out of the house was too shaky and we felt it gave off the feeling that the character was being followed, which is not the plot of our opening. So we are either going to completely scrap the tracking shot or re shoot it from the front of the character.