INT. STREET. EVENING
At the pavement – under a street light – stands ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS, the camera focuses on her bright red heeled shoes.
CLOSE UP ON ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS walking through the street on a rainy night. The sound of her heels splashing through the puddles is emphasised.
Slowly craning to the side of her head.
Panning long shot to show surroundings.
Over shoulder shot following JESS SNOOK. Tilt down.
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INT. HOUSE. EVENING
The bath water is stained red and there are bloody hand-prints over the walls.
Mid shot of DANIELLE FOSTER-JOHNSON drowning in the bath.
Close up of DANIELLE FOSTER-JOHNSON’S face. Staring straight into the camera. Her eyes remain open and fixed, with a sense of emptiness.
ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS close up on her red heeled shoes walking up the creaky stairs, slowly.
CLOSE UP on ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS’S hand turning the door handle, then swinging open the bathroom door. Showing the view from ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS.
There are sharp flashes of light, highlighting DANIELLE FOSTER-JOHNSON’S face (CLOSE UP at different angles) as ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS has a flashback and remembers the murder.
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INT. STREET. EVENING
ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS sits on a bench underneath the streetlight. OVER SHOULDER SHOT.
ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS is revealed through a mirror applying lipstick, CLOSE UP on her lips. ALEXANDRA VESDEKIS moves mirror back to reveal half of face.
In today’s lesson my group discussed idea for our film intro. We began to allocate character roles, and started planning our script based on our story plan and proposition.
After we watched a short t.v drama clip and analysed various aspects such as; sound/music, camera, lighting ect.
Mr butcher then told us about binary oppoition and hyperealism to help us when analysing short clips.
In today’s lesson, me and Sir discussed the 7 questions that have been set relating to the topic of video. We also discussed my progress within the lesson, and targets for future lessons.
After my group looked at the BBC writers room website, this gave us an insight into how scripts are presented.
We then proceeded to look around the school for inspiring images which would help us in creating a setting for out 2 minute film intro. We looked specifically at trees, roads, and also a stream which creates a eerie, and also lonely vibe. We then looked in the art storage room and found a number of useful props to photograph. This included driftwood, animal skulls, masks, old typewriters, knifes and saws. We felt that each object would be useful to observe as they are not the usual everyday objects. We focused more on the driftwood and the animal skeletons as they compliments the eerie and lonely vibe that the trees, roads and streams gave.
At the beginning of today’s lesson, we discussed the terms
- Subversion – tackling a problem from the bottom
- Convention – thinking before you speak
Our group then continued the planning of our thriller opening scene. We looked back on ideas we have previously came up with to help us think of more ideas.
We also looked back at the reviews of films that we have previously watched in lesson to study how a thriller is put together and what makes it effective.
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Monday 9th November |
Finish the planning for our opening scene of our thriller. |
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Wednesday 11th November |
Discuss how the scene will be filmed. |
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Monday 16th November |
Start filming the scene |
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Wednesday 18th November |
Film scene |
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Monday 23rd November |
Film scene |
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Wednesday 25th November |
Film scene |
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Monday 30th November |
Film scene |
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Wednesday 2nd December |
Film scene |
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Monday 7th December |
Film scene |
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Wednesday 9th December |
Filming and editing scene |
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