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.
1st – 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
Black out and credits appear
2nd – Mid shot on white chipped wall where shadow flashes past (approx. 3 seconds of shot before and after the shadow had passed)
Black out and credits appear
3rd – Close up on child’s feet walking up the stairs (wearing white frilly socks and T-bar white patent shoes) (+) you can see the hair of a doll fall down as the child is carrying it upside down
Black out and credits appear
4th - Close up on doll falling down the stairs and smashing when the child drops the doll
Black out and credits appear
5th – Back to close up on child’s feet walking up the stairs, following her to a balcony
Black out and credits appear
6th – Point of view crane shot to the child’s mother yelling ‘what are you doing Sarah?’
Black out and credits appear
7th – The girl’s feet jumping off the balcony
Black out, credits and title
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Genre: Crime Thriller
Set on a cold winter night time of a small lake surrounded by a forest additionally set at a busy children’s play park on a summers warm day.
1stshot: Close up on a young boy’s head facing down in a lake slowly zooming out to an establishing wide shot of the whole lake scene
Black out – Credits
2ndshot: Flashes of the boy playing football in a park – (including eye level mid shot, close ups on him laughing, his family smiling and on holding hands together)
Black out – Credits
3rdshot: Long shot of nearby alleyway with a male antagonist character standing staring at the family (+) close up on his hands curling into fists
Black out – Credits
4thshot: Close up following the football to the man’s feet in the alley way. Then an eye line match the man’s body till it reaches his mouth where he smiles
Black out – Credits
5thshot: Transitioning between quick flashes of first scene from a high angle on the body in the lake and the man’s smile
Black out – Credits
6thshot: The boy’s worries reaction to the man’s smile
Black out – Credits
7thshot: Black screen
Black out – Credit
8thshot: Title appears
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