Shooting Script

Story Board Number: 2
Shot Number: 1
Shot Description: Camera pans through a cluttered dining room, with the camera placed at eye-level, with it moving slowly, slightly bumpy to represent the camera being a person.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Date: November 21st 2009
Shooting Time: 14:00
Actors: None
Props: Normal placement of 'Homely' objects around the scene.

Story Board Number: 3 Part 1
Shot Number: 2
Shot Description: The camera moves from story board number 2, into the corridor which leads off of it, as it looks through the siderooms, panning lazily.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Date: November 21st 2009
Shooting Time: 14:15
Actors: None
Props: None required, with little placement of surrounding objects to retain the slightly disorganised manner.

Story Board Number: 4 Part 1
Shot Number: 3
Shot Description: The camera pans to look up the stair, and begins to ascend slowly, still in POV.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 14:25
Actors: None
Props: None, except for painting on the walls, showing the hoarding attitude of Grace.

Story Board Number: 5 Part 1
Shot Number: 4
Shot Description: The camera continues up the rest of the stairs, moving along the upstairs corridor, remaing in a POV, still panning in the same lazy manner.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 14:35
Actors: None
Props: Normal placement of objects.

Story Board Number: 6 Part 1
Shot Number: 5
Shot Description: The Camera moves through an open door, which is exceptionally dark, with light moving over a bed (slightly fluorescently) with the camera moving towards a shape on the bed.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 14:50
Actors: None
Props: Lights, a 'Shape' in the bed (either a person or constructed), a dark atmosphere.

Story Board Number: 6 Part 2
Shot Number: 6
Shot Description: The camera retreat out of the room, with the door slamming into the cameras' POV.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 15:15
Actors: None
Props: Same as shot number 5

Story Board Number: 7
Shot Number: 7
Shot Description: The camera moves quickly, remaining in POV, as it retreats back down the corridor, and stairs and returns to where it began in Shot 2.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 15:30
Actors: None
Props: None

Story Board Number: 3 Part 2
Shot Number: 8
Shot Description: Shows someone running away from the camera and towards the stairs.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 16:00
Actors: Ghost
Props: Same as Shot Number 3.

Story Board Number: 4 Part 2
Shot Number: 9
Shot Description: Someone runs away from the camera up the stairs.
Shot Location: 'Grace's' House
Shooting Time: 16:20
Actors: Ghost
Props: Same as Shot Number 4.

Story Board Number: 5 Part 2
Shot Number: 10
Shot Description: Someone runs away from the camera, running through an open door to the left.
Shot Location: 16:35
Actors: Ghost
Props: None

What is Web 2.0?

The area around 'what is Web 2.0' is exceptionally vague, it is no longer a distinct media technology, but it is now all around us, on the internet, on phones, IPods and game consoles. Web 2.0 offers three main benefits:

1. The DIY web: Websites such as 'Wikis' are a prime example of this. It allows for blogging, sharing of expertise and information publishing, breaking up the synidcation of media content and bring publishing to the user.
2. A richer web experience: Imbedding of prime, advanced content such as Adobe and AJAX (Java & XML script), allowing for a more advanced web experience.
3. Light-weight web development models: Development of 'scripting' models such as PHP and Ruby, to enhance the capabilaties of the internent. These may allow for an increase in 'web power' and so provides easy 'tool' for the user to interface with, and change their internet.

Brainstorm

Here I brainstormed the main features of my film, to establish factors I did not address earlier.

Music Research

Whilst looking for inspiration to create a soundtrack for my film, I found that most Drama films feature classical music, normally with a slower tempo to create more effect and drama in the piece. I managed to find a copyright free source of music, in the form of www.freeplaymusic.com. I then condensed these tracks into the four most appropriate, which were:


Should Have Known By David Flavin: Eloquent strings and rich piano weave an emotional melody. Drums add a dynamic texture to the lament.


A Story In May By Arnaued Ray: A sweetly waltzing piano piece with hints of questions and mysteries that resolves warmly, accented by dancing strings and French horn, with a wry working of the melodic structure.


Satie's Gymnopodie No.1: A piano piece infused with deep emotion; immersed in memory and musical sensitivity.


As One By Dave Greendale: Piano plays a calming, reflective meditation, a cello joins the halting, poignant melody, pausing as if in a dance together.

Statement of Intent

I am going to research, plan and produce a media product, of which the main product will be a film trailer of around two minutes in length. Alongside my trailer, I will make two ancillary items; firstly, a film poster, and secondly, a magazine cover. Both ancillary items must contain the film as the primary feature, and must advertise and sell the film.

My film is going to be of the Drama genre, addressing the theme of Old vs. Young, as well as tackling the deeper themes of romance, family discord and the recession.

Storyboard Description

1 - Opens with a still of a family photo, with a voice over by main character. ‘It’s funny the way life turns out. I was the eldest, and now I’m the last one left. It is funny isn’t it?’, in a sad, slightly monotonous voice, attempting to make light of something most obviously not. The picture then fades out to black as she says the last line. Behind the speaking their will be a dull droning of background voices, which are not distinguishable.

2 - As photo fades, the image of a slightly cluttered, lived in dinning room fades in behind. The camera is positioned at eye-level, looking over the room, tracking through it slowly. The distant murmuring grows louder, with the introduction of music and voices coming over it. The voice continues in the same manner, ‘Oh, I’m not saying I’ve had a hard life, far from it; two children, a loving family’ at this point a voice shouts out off camera ‘Mum you’re ruining my life!’, ‘I’m not complaining at all’.

3 - The camera continues to track through the room into a corridor, looking into side rooms, ‘I’ve lived in this house all my life, and I’ve never wanted to live anywhere else’ the voice continues, another voice shouts out once more ‘Why do you have to be so stubborn Mum, a (Nursing) home will be much easier on the whole family!’ A figure then fades in to the shot, running down the corridor, before freezing and then fading out.

4 - The camera pans to look up the stairs, and as it begins the ascent the same figure appears, the voice returns once more, this time intentionally NOT talking to the viewer, instead to the voice shouting, ‘This is OUR home, for me and your father’ a childish giggle comes as the figure climbs the stairs, followed by the camera. The figure disappears as it reaches the top of the stairs. ‘Dad’s dead Mum, and you need someone to look after you properly!’

5 - The camera then climbs the stairs, moving to an open door, the figure has now completely disappeared. The murmuring intensifies to a fever-pitch as the camera reaches the door. Below the tangle of voices comes a faint beating, to be reminiscent of a heart beat.

6 - The camera moves through the open door, the heart beat growing louder, now louder the murmurs. The camera moves towards a shape on the bed, the room shadowy, but not dark. The heart beat grows and then the camera freezes.

7 - The camera then retraces itself at high speed, murmuring and ‘heart beat’ now gone. The camera returns to where it began and a white frame replaces the view.

8 - The frame fades out, with the camera filming a cup falling to the floor and smashing in slow motion, a new female voice calls out ‘Grace’ shocked, and the cup smashes. The scene ends with the cup smashed on the floor.

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