Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Thriller opening sequence work

Shot list (rough):
1) Close up of face (dead boy)(looking down)
2) Close-mid shot of body of dead boy (on floor sideways)
3) Close up of blood (down)
4) Close up of gun, blooded at tip (diagonal down)
5) Close up of his phone vibrating and ringing on the ground (same)
6) Extreme close up of phone screen showing caller's name
7) Mid (mid angle) shot of 2 boys with phone, calling boy
8) Close up of one boy's face looking at phone (straight)
9) Close up of phone/screen and answerphone heard (down)
10)Mid shot of boy talking to toher boy )short reverse shot
11)Mid shot of other boy talking to other boy ) (over shoulder)
12)Mid shot of boy talking to other son )
13)Mid/long shot of the boys walking away to find friend who they first called, hearing them saying things about him (eye level shot)
14)Long shot of field in eyes of 1/2 of the boys
15)Long shot from behind dead boy looking at friends coming.

MAIN POINTS:

1)See dead boy -close ups (mid shots
2)See phone - extreme close up/close ups
3)See friends calling him - mid/close ups
4)See them walking to find him - Mid/long shots
5)See them calling for friend, knowing he was going to be somewhere there, and finding him.

SECTION 1

- Close ups of speckles of blood (looking down) moving up
- Close up of bloody-tipped gun (looking sideways) moving down
- Close up of dead boy's face (looking sideways on floor) moving up
- Close/mid shot of body - moving down
- close/mid shot of body from side in blood - moving sideways

SECTION 2

- Mid shot seeing phone in pocket - no movement
- Mid/close up of pocket and ground with phone virbrating and falling out of pocket to floor (phone now facing up and ringing now heard) - slow motion
- Extreme close up of phone screen showing name of caller with blood on screen, then it goes to answerphone - no movement
- Close up of phone coming away from one friends ear, shoving other friend to the right - no movement
- Extreme close up of phone screen and friend ending the call. Movement as in eyes of friend
SECTION 3

- Mid shot moving round from shoulder of friend that didn't call, looking at other friend then down at phone in his hand - curves round and then down
- Mid shot of other boy talking to boy with phone - no movement
- Mid shot of other boy talking to boy with phone - no movement (shot, reverse, shot)

SECTION 4

- Mid shot of 2 boys from the side, panning left, following them as they start to walk forward - left move
- Long shot looking from behind them, showing them walking (we hear them talk badly to each other about him - "Never answers the phone, hasn't been anywhere ....")
- Mid shot of path behind wall, seeing them come around the corner.
- Close up of blood still dripping from dead boy

SECTION 5

- Long shot of filed in the eyes of one of the 2 boys - left and right
- Mid shot of 2 boys talking to each other about where he might be
- Close up of a friend's face, ("He has been acting kinda wierd, he normally gets here about this time.")
- Close up of other frind from behind other shoulder saying, ("Innit, where the hell is he?")
- Long shot from behind dead boy, showing the 2 friends spotting him (start off as close up, zooming out/moving back, so we can see dead boy in in foreground and friends in background)


Either section 1 or the whole of the opening sequence shows the opening credits

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