Monday, January 20, 2020

PLANNING: SHOT LIST

Scene
Sound/Voice Over
Visual
Actors
Props
Shot type
Notes
Street
Footsteps.
Homeless dialogue.

Low lit street

Homeless man sitting down with pan handling sign

Protagonist walks down street on his own
Homeless man

Protagonist
Pan handling sign
Establishing shot, long shot of street

Tracking shot of protagonist as he walks along- glide cam – as protagonist walks past homeless the camera stops and focus’ on homeless man. (enter dialogue)

Pan camera round so that protagonist is behind homeless man. (two shot) – then curse

Close up, pull shot of protagonist (reaction shot)


At the end of this scene - hard cut
Corner shop
Cash register

Dialogue from protagonist and shop keeper

Bell as he walks into the shop.
Heart beat
Contrast between outside darkness and light inside shop.


Shop keeper
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Protagonist
Wallet

Money

Food/ snacks
Establishing shot of corner shop

Long shot from inside shot to a mid-shot as he walks towards the camera through door.

Wide angle two shot from side of counter. As protagonist puts items on counter.
(doll down the end of the corridor peaking round the corner, audience only see it for a second)

POV shot of shop keeper looking at protagonist. As he goes down to get another item.

Then over the shoulder tracking shot as he comes back up, reaches for wallet but it’s gone.

Close up of his face, as he feels a curse. Steps back from counter. Long shot of him checking his pockets. Pans round to the door as he leaves. Then focus on door.
As protagonist puts items on counter shot is level with table

Close up on protagonist as he losses wallet- heart beat fades in


Ext. Home
Quiet wind
House and window looking in.
Protagonist
Laptop, sofa
Long Shot from outside window zooming in on him in living room on laptop, hard cut to in house.
N/A
Int. Home
Notification sound from laptop.

TV on quietly in background of news about homeless crisis

Heart beat
Protagonist looking at laptop screen dark room and blue light reflects on his face
TV news about homeless crisis.
Protagonist

Shadowy figure

Close up of protagonists face with dim blue light from laptop.

over the shoulder shot of him looking at his laptop, (possibly in background something walks past the window.) TV and window in background.

POV shot of laptop as notification pops up in corner of the screen. (clicks on notification)

Close up -to a reaction shot

Long shot of Lights all go out in room, he screams in anger.


looking at something on laptop, then notification pops up in corner of screen about job, when he clicks on it and it pops up full screen.
 After this he turns off TV.

Close up reaction shot = heart beat fades in.

Hard cut to finish this scene.
Int. Bedroom
Echoed Dripping
Dim lit bedroom
Protagonist
Picture frame with image
Mid shot of him in bed
Track across past a picture with his daughter with a doll.
The image with the picture has the daughter with a doll
Int. Kitchen
Heartbeat

dripping
Lights flicker
Protagonist
Shadowy figure
Smashed plate
Long shot of door as protagonist enters

Long shot showing the whole kitchen, then to POV shot, light flickers. Doll appears – hard cut to close up of the dolls face, slowly tracks down the dolls body to its hand as a single blood drop drips off its finger.
Lights flick off
and then the doll disappears.

Close up shot of the protagonist lights headed and rubbing his eyes. As he stumbles over to the tap to get water.



Echoed dripping      

Light flicker on and off. Then silence
Build a soundscape consisting of cutlery shaking, heart beating. (Crescendo to silence)

Shadowy figure outside (subliminal)

This shot makes the protagonist seem lightheaded with disbelief, slightly distorted and shaky.








Basement
Dripping
Brightly lit basement, lights then suddenly go out and red room is lit by a red light.
The room is filled with old dolls, all staring at the protagonist

‘Stranger Things’ effect
Protagonist
Dolls, fake blood
Tracking close up shot of protagonist’s feet as he walks down the stairs.

Longshot from down the steps (maybe use glide cam to zoom out) (look at IT basement scene for inspiration)

Shot from behind the dolls as he walks past them to a single one at the end



Use a super 8 film effect. Use of red gel.
Int. House
Footsteps, heavy breathing, doors slamming.
Dimly lit stairway with straw light
Protagonist

 Tracking close up shot of protagonist’s feet as he runs up the stairs.  

long shot from dolls perfective as he runs out the door, camera slowly begins to slide to the right as if the doll is moving away.



 Fast paced hard cuts, intense. Super 8 effect.
Use of yellow gels
Int. house
Light high pitched ringing sound and echoed fast paced footsteps as he leave the house.
Distorted corridor/ visuals, hard cuts


Long shot from door of Joe stumbling down the corridor, hitting against walls.
Hard cut montage as he runs out the door (3 hard cuts of him running through the corridor to the door)
Street
Non- diegetic music
Dim Lit street, we see Joe walking down the street.

Joe
N/A
Establishing shot, long shot of street.

Same street as first scene.

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