Leela Sandiford Media AS Level: 2013

Friday, 29 November 2013

Storyboards

This story board is showing a crime scene, building up the scene zooming into different objects like the weapon, footprints, blood and smashed glass. Eventually the camera will get a shot of a little girl on the floor who has been murdered, and next to her will be standing a man. The audience will wonder if he is the killer or not, the camera takes a close up of the mans face and then when the camera zooms out of his face he is in a police station reporting someone missing. As a audience we would be wondering if he was the little girls father or if he is reporting a crime to hide the fact he has done it...

This story board is showing a little boy sketching, the camera will take different shots of the sketch as if its trying to explain a puzzle and as the audience we will be wondering was the sketch is trying to show us. The shots will be at a quick pace to build up tension, and will these shots the credits will appear. The sketch is eventually shown and it is a sketch of a crime scene that the little boy has witnessed.

The final storyboard shows gangsters who are involved in a crime, they are trying to receive there money back but the man who it tied up doesn't have the money. The camera takes a shot from the tied up mans point of view with a fit going towards it and then the shot would go blank. This would be at a fast pace showing the action and making the audience question what these gangster characters are going to do next and what they are all about.

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Location Ideas

Costume Ideas

DRAFT SCRIPTS

A Deathly Affair

Genre: Conspiracy Thriller

Set in an expensive mansion in Surrey, with large chandeliers, famous paintings framed and lots gold connotations in mise-en-scene, such as cushion, picture frames and wall lamps.

1) Extreme close ups on a letter of suicide, zooming into certain words which will slowly turn into credits through special effects, transitioning between each shot with bright flashes (approximately 5 varied shots)

2) From the last extreme close up of the letter the shot slowly zooms out to reveal a middle aged women’s hand (nails pained red to symbolize danger) writing the letter – credits appearing one at a time around the letter

3) A mid shot of her feet (wearing Louis Vuitton shoes) walking towards the balcony on the stair case and following her feet to a dead body of a middle aged man (wearing a tuxedo) with a large gash on his forehead – credits appearing one at a time in the scene

4) A close-up of my mouth saying ‘awww’ in a twisted patronizing way. – credits appearing one at a time in the scene

5) A eye-line match from the women’s to the body

6) A close up shot on the women folding the letter up and putting it in the man’s side tuxedo pocket and the pen which she wrote the letter with in his front pocket – credits appearing one at a time in the scene

7) Next shot is a wide shot from the back of the women walking down the stairs slowly with her hand gracefully ken on the banister. (lighting is going to be from the large front door, therefore showing her in a silhouette form) – credits appearing one at a time in the scene

8) An extreme wide shot of the door shutting– credits appearing one at a time in the scene

9) An extreme close up of the dead man’s eyes and zooming into the pupil transitioning to a black screen where the title will appear ‘A Deathly affair’.

SKETCH

Set in a police station with a boy sitting at a table drawing a picture of a crime scene, the camera focuses on the picture being sketched by the boy. Fast pased editing to create suspence focussing on the sketch of a death scene.

· Young boy sitting in police station drawing on piece of paper (Plain room, dim lights, just a table and a chair)

· Zooms into paper with credits scribbled across, pans across paper

· Close up shots of paper (boy drawing crime scene) – zooms into different parts of the paper, confusing the audience, leaving them in suspense

· Boy finishes drawing

· Policeman looks down on boy (high angle shot)

“Is this exactly what happened?” - police man

“Exactly” – young timid boy

· Focuses on Police man’s face looking down at image

· Shot of drawing – crime scene; dead people, weapons and a sketch of the young boy (leaves audience in suspense because they are wondering why the boy is there) – tense music adding to tension

· Blank screen and title appears

DISTURBANCE

Setting shows a table with glasses of wine, setting a sterotypical scene where a couple would have had a romantic drink. It would be set outside on a patio, so the darkeness would be surrounding them with a dim light to represent the mystery behind the scene.

*Opening Production symbols.

-- Credits flashes across blank (black) screen --

*Establishing shot of scene showing the layout of a murder scene; zooms into particular items; wine spilt, glasses smashed, murder weapon and man sitting at table staring down at floor.

-- Credits flashes across blank (black) screen --

*Shots of man getting up from chair and walking across room, shots following footsteps and shows blood splattered on floor.

-- Credits flashes across blank (black) screen --

*Man kneeling beside her, Shots focussing on dead body (little girl)

*Close up shot of man’s eyes, camera zooms into the eyes of the man then zooms out of eyes and the man is in the police station.

“I want to report my missing daughter” – The only dialogue in the scene – Man who was in previous scenes is reporting his missing daughter. Audience left in mystery wondering why he is at the police station and what happened at the crime scene.

-- Title Appears --

GOODBYE CHILDREN

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Set in an old fashioned large house which has creaky floor boards and is very bare, with a cold interior and exterior colour palette.

1^st – Extreme close up on a worn, vintage dolls eyes moving up and down (alternating between three different dolls), close up on a bears eye and tea cups