Monday 2 May 2011
Monday 11 April 2011
Friday 8 April 2011
Music
The music for our production was created using Apple's Garageband software on the Macs. We decided on two separate pieces of music, of similar styling. We decided on this to keep the same effect and stick to the genre.
The first piece we constructed using separate Apple loops, each loop consisting of different instruments. We looked at the original Ocean's Eleven trailer for inspiration and to see what style of music would be best fitting for our teaser trailer. We wanted to create a piece of steady pace, jazz-y style. This gives our production an upbeat vibe, but a very casual side too. Alex found an appropriate drum beat, so we used this and built up the whole piece from this, working along side the Ocean's Eleven trailer to pick out certain instrument that would add to the effect of this, seeing as our teaser trailer is of the similar style to Ocean's Eleven.
The first piece of music we created turned out just how we wanted. We felt we needed something that started off setting a level of curiosity to the action, then built up into the pace change of action. We decided to layer all the instrument we found suitable for this style, together. This also corresponds to the action involved in the teaser trailer as we start to introduce the cast all together. Once we had finished this piece we had to make sure the timings were correct. We decided to watch through our teaser trailer and pause the video when we had a change in music and note down the time lapsed, this is so we can match the timings on Garageband precisely.
We then had to create the second piece of music, we needed this to fit the style of the first piece and the whole teaser trailer, as if this didn't it would be too much of a jump to move onto with such a small gap. We stuck to the jazz style but needed it to be of faster pace, to build up towards the end of the action. We felt we needed this as it adds to the drama involved in our production, without the music the video does not have the same effect.
Once, we decided on exactly what we needed, I went through Garageband to find any suitable loops or prerecorded loops that we could edit or use straight away. Eventually I found a jazz style composition that was well fitting for our production, but when we moved this into our track we found the tempo was a little too slow for what we wanted. We decided to adjust the tempo and increase it, after three attempts we got the tempo just right, and the loop was perfect. We then had to fit this around the timings we had noted down.
After completing both pieces of music that we needed, we transferred them to Alex's laptop and copied both pieces into Adobe Premiere Elements and matched the timings to the video of our teaser trailer.
Overall, we both feel that the music for our teaser trailer turned out very well, we created exactly what we wanted and found it added to the overall effect of the teaser trailer.
The first piece we constructed using separate Apple loops, each loop consisting of different instruments. We looked at the original Ocean's Eleven trailer for inspiration and to see what style of music would be best fitting for our teaser trailer. We wanted to create a piece of steady pace, jazz-y style. This gives our production an upbeat vibe, but a very casual side too. Alex found an appropriate drum beat, so we used this and built up the whole piece from this, working along side the Ocean's Eleven trailer to pick out certain instrument that would add to the effect of this, seeing as our teaser trailer is of the similar style to Ocean's Eleven.
The first piece of music we created turned out just how we wanted. We felt we needed something that started off setting a level of curiosity to the action, then built up into the pace change of action. We decided to layer all the instrument we found suitable for this style, together. This also corresponds to the action involved in the teaser trailer as we start to introduce the cast all together. Once we had finished this piece we had to make sure the timings were correct. We decided to watch through our teaser trailer and pause the video when we had a change in music and note down the time lapsed, this is so we can match the timings on Garageband precisely.
We then had to create the second piece of music, we needed this to fit the style of the first piece and the whole teaser trailer, as if this didn't it would be too much of a jump to move onto with such a small gap. We stuck to the jazz style but needed it to be of faster pace, to build up towards the end of the action. We felt we needed this as it adds to the drama involved in our production, without the music the video does not have the same effect.
Once, we decided on exactly what we needed, I went through Garageband to find any suitable loops or prerecorded loops that we could edit or use straight away. Eventually I found a jazz style composition that was well fitting for our production, but when we moved this into our track we found the tempo was a little too slow for what we wanted. We decided to adjust the tempo and increase it, after three attempts we got the tempo just right, and the loop was perfect. We then had to fit this around the timings we had noted down.
After completing both pieces of music that we needed, we transferred them to Alex's laptop and copied both pieces into Adobe Premiere Elements and matched the timings to the video of our teaser trailer.
Overall, we both feel that the music for our teaser trailer turned out very well, we created exactly what we wanted and found it added to the overall effect of the teaser trailer.
Costumes
Male - Main Cast Primary Costumes:
Smart Casual dress code:
Shirt
Jumper
Ties
Suit Trousers
Jeans
Smart Shoes
Coats/Jackets
Other Male Dress Codes:
Hoody
Trainers
Sunglasses
Beanie Hat
Female Cast Costume:
Motorcycle Helmet
Motorcycle Jacket and Gloves
After closely analysing teaser trailers of all different genres and similar genre and style to our production, we felt that a smart casual style would be most appropriate and fitting for our production. The use of a female character on a motorbike challenges stereotypical conventions and gives a positive representation. This positive representation is also given through the costumes used for our male characters, giving them a formal, well dressed look, sets up an idea of power and status and allows the audience to take the cast seriously.
Smart Casual dress code:
Shirt
Jumper
Ties
Suit Trousers
Jeans
Smart Shoes
Coats/Jackets
Other Male Dress Codes:
Hoody
Trainers
Sunglasses
Beanie Hat
Female Cast Costume:
Motorcycle Helmet
Motorcycle Jacket and Gloves
After closely analysing teaser trailers of all different genres and similar genre and style to our production, we felt that a smart casual style would be most appropriate and fitting for our production. The use of a female character on a motorbike challenges stereotypical conventions and gives a positive representation. This positive representation is also given through the costumes used for our male characters, giving them a formal, well dressed look, sets up an idea of power and status and allows the audience to take the cast seriously.
Revised Shot List
1.High Angle Mid Shot: Four people playing cards around a table
•Dialogue: ‘Ok, so we’re gonna steal it’
2.Graphic Shot: Production Logo, Film Bear Bunch Jr.
• Roll transition
3. Tracking Shot: Case, low level, walking along
• Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘We’ll need a team’
4. Graphic Shot: Production Logo, What A Lovely Cake Distributions
• Roll transition
5. Tracking shot forward to Over The Shoulder Shot: Two people standing in front of a third.
• Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘So, who’s in?’
• Music change
6. Mid Shot: Walk towards camera, straighten tie. (freeze)
• Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
7. Graphic Shot: ‘From the Director of ‘Cool Ridings’
• Roll transition
8. Long Shot: Taking photo from a car window. (freeze)
• Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
9. Graphic Shot: ‘And the Producer of ‘The Confession’
• Roll transition
10. Mid/Long Shot: Room, darkly lit, computer screens.
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
11. Graphic Shot: ‘The World’s Best Thieves’
• Roll transition
12. Long Shot: Character waking up on a sofa, coffee table with assorted drinks/dirty plates etc. (freeze)
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
13. Graphic Shot: ‘On the World’s Biggest Heist’
• Roll transition
14. Mid/Close Up: Take off motorcycle helmet. (freeze)
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
15. Graphic Shot: ‘High Stakes’
• Roll transition
16. Mid Shot: Shuffling cards
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
17. Graphic Shot: ‘Big Reward’
• Roll transition
18. Long Shot: A board/conference room, unravel plans/blueprints.
• Dialogue: Here’s the plan
• Roll transition
• Music Change
19. Close Up: Science lab, blue explosion
20. Long Shot: Jumping into the back of a van
21. Close Up: Inside the back of the van, jumping in
22. Long Shot: outside van, closing the van’s back doors.
23. High Angle, Long Shot: Black and white, security camera style, zoom out
24. Close Up: Casino table, hand placing chips on to it.
25. Long Shot: Three people running past railing
26. Tracking Shot: In front of a motorbike, with person riding towards camera
27. Close Up: Casino table, dice rolling, slow motion
28. Long Shot: Zoom in on person driving a boat
29. High Angle: Two people in a car park, security camera style, one hands a case to the other
30. Long Shot: Person driving boat, facing camera
31. Close Up:
32. Close Up: Casino table, dice rolling, slow motion
33. Tracking Shot: In front of a motorbike, with person riding towards camera
34. Mid Shot: Van driving past camera
35. Split Screen, Close Up: Roulette Wheel/Casino table
36. Long Shot: Person jumping down some steps, towards camera
37. Long Shot, slight track: Person driving boat
38. Extreme Close Up: Casino table, chip spinning.
39. Split Screen/ Close Up: Roulette wheel spinning, stops on 11/ Dice rolling on casino table, stops with 5 and 6 visible
40. Two Shot: One slaps the other, facing camera
41. Two Shot: Facing away from camera, one slaps the other
42. Over the Shoulder: Person coming through door, gets slapped
43. Two Shot: one person sitting at a computer, gets slapped by another
44. Low Angle Two Shot: One Slaps the other
45. Graphic Shot: Casino Table background, graphic: ‘The Case’
46. Long Shot: Lift Opens, 4 cast members inside
•Onscreen graphics: ‘Opening Soon’
47. Graphic Shot: Production company names, actors credit, film title
48. Graphic Shot: Director, Producers, Writers, etc.
•Dialogue: ‘Ok, so we’re gonna steal it’
2.Graphic Shot: Production Logo, Film Bear Bunch Jr.
• Roll transition
3. Tracking Shot: Case, low level, walking along
• Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘We’ll need a team’
4. Graphic Shot: Production Logo, What A Lovely Cake Distributions
• Roll transition
5. Tracking shot forward to Over The Shoulder Shot: Two people standing in front of a third.
• Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘So, who’s in?’
• Music change
6. Mid Shot: Walk towards camera, straighten tie. (freeze)
• Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
7. Graphic Shot: ‘From the Director of ‘Cool Ridings’
• Roll transition
8. Long Shot: Taking photo from a car window. (freeze)
• Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
9. Graphic Shot: ‘And the Producer of ‘The Confession’
• Roll transition
10. Mid/Long Shot: Room, darkly lit, computer screens.
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
11. Graphic Shot: ‘The World’s Best Thieves’
• Roll transition
12. Long Shot: Character waking up on a sofa, coffee table with assorted drinks/dirty plates etc. (freeze)
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
• Roll transition
13. Graphic Shot: ‘On the World’s Biggest Heist’
• Roll transition
14. Mid/Close Up: Take off motorcycle helmet. (freeze)
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
15. Graphic Shot: ‘High Stakes’
• Roll transition
16. Mid Shot: Shuffling cards
• Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
17. Graphic Shot: ‘Big Reward’
• Roll transition
18. Long Shot: A board/conference room, unravel plans/blueprints.
• Dialogue: Here’s the plan
• Roll transition
• Music Change
19. Close Up: Science lab, blue explosion
20. Long Shot: Jumping into the back of a van
21. Close Up: Inside the back of the van, jumping in
22. Long Shot: outside van, closing the van’s back doors.
23. High Angle, Long Shot: Black and white, security camera style, zoom out
24. Close Up: Casino table, hand placing chips on to it.
25. Long Shot: Three people running past railing
26. Tracking Shot: In front of a motorbike, with person riding towards camera
27. Close Up: Casino table, dice rolling, slow motion
28. Long Shot: Zoom in on person driving a boat
29. High Angle: Two people in a car park, security camera style, one hands a case to the other
30. Long Shot: Person driving boat, facing camera
31. Close Up:
32. Close Up: Casino table, dice rolling, slow motion
33. Tracking Shot: In front of a motorbike, with person riding towards camera
34. Mid Shot: Van driving past camera
35. Split Screen, Close Up: Roulette Wheel/Casino table
36. Long Shot: Person jumping down some steps, towards camera
37. Long Shot, slight track: Person driving boat
38. Extreme Close Up: Casino table, chip spinning.
39. Split Screen/ Close Up: Roulette wheel spinning, stops on 11/ Dice rolling on casino table, stops with 5 and 6 visible
40. Two Shot: One slaps the other, facing camera
41. Two Shot: Facing away from camera, one slaps the other
42. Over the Shoulder: Person coming through door, gets slapped
43. Two Shot: one person sitting at a computer, gets slapped by another
44. Low Angle Two Shot: One Slaps the other
45. Graphic Shot: Casino Table background, graphic: ‘The Case’
46. Long Shot: Lift Opens, 4 cast members inside
•Onscreen graphics: ‘Opening Soon’
47. Graphic Shot: Production company names, actors credit, film title
48. Graphic Shot: Director, Producers, Writers, etc.
Sunday 13 March 2011
Creating and Using the Camera Dolly
For two of our scenes, we required to create a tracking motion and to create the desired effect, we required a camera dolly. However, our school does not have its own that we can use, and working with an essentially non-existent budget, we were forced to improvise. At first we experimented with using a bicycle, we found that it was too unbalanced, and the practice shots came out too wobbly, we then moved on to thinking about using a very slow moving car, with a tripod set up in the open boot, much as we had done for the motorbike shoot. However, we then decided against this as we had to change the area that we were going to do the shot in and this could have been potentially inaccessible for the car, we also would have only been able to shoot one of these shots using this method and the sound from the car’s engine would have interfered with the recording of the dialogue in the other. So the car was out.
A skateboard seemed to be an ideal starting point for our dolly as its four wheels meant it would stand up on its own and its relatively flat top would be good for placing the tripod. There were some issues with the skateboard that needed to be fixed. The first was the size of the skateboard, which was too small to extend the legs of the tripod. To fix this a larger plank of wood was placed on top, this was found to be big enough for the tripod, but was a bit unbalanced, so a folded up towel was put between the skateboard and the wood which worked well. After trying this out at home, I found the footage to be too shaky due to the skateboard’s small wheels going over the bumps in the floor. This was fixed by laying leftover laminate flooring from my kitchen, on the ground to create a flat surface for the skateboard to smoothly run across.
After first completing this set up at home, it was then taken into school, the location we were going to use it. Josh and I set up the dolly and ‘track’ slightly earlier than we had scheduled to film in order for us to get some practise using it before we actual take. After this trial we added some thin foam insulation under the joins of the laminate flooring to help improve smoothness and some duct tape to cover the joins on top, to the same end.
Overall I am very pleased with how this turned out and we found worked very well and the resulting footage, I think, turned out to be one of the best shots in the finished trailer and gave a very professional look to the scenes it was used in.
If I was to create another version of this dolly one improvement I would make would be to somehow make some sort of rail system to keep the skateboard in a perfectly straight line, as at first we found that the board tended to lean slightly to one side due to the ground faintly sloping and so was turning to the left a bit and sometimes rolling completely off the ‘track ’ when we were first trying it out. But after practice we were able to overcome this problem by putting a bit more weight on to the opposite side, thereby negating the problems that the unforeseen sloping caused.
For the second shot that required the use of the dolly, we were inside, on a smooth lino floor in our school corridor so the laminate flooring 'track' was not needed.
Here are some pictures and a video of the track in use
A skateboard seemed to be an ideal starting point for our dolly as its four wheels meant it would stand up on its own and its relatively flat top would be good for placing the tripod. There were some issues with the skateboard that needed to be fixed. The first was the size of the skateboard, which was too small to extend the legs of the tripod. To fix this a larger plank of wood was placed on top, this was found to be big enough for the tripod, but was a bit unbalanced, so a folded up towel was put between the skateboard and the wood which worked well. After trying this out at home, I found the footage to be too shaky due to the skateboard’s small wheels going over the bumps in the floor. This was fixed by laying leftover laminate flooring from my kitchen, on the ground to create a flat surface for the skateboard to smoothly run across.
After first completing this set up at home, it was then taken into school, the location we were going to use it. Josh and I set up the dolly and ‘track’ slightly earlier than we had scheduled to film in order for us to get some practise using it before we actual take. After this trial we added some thin foam insulation under the joins of the laminate flooring to help improve smoothness and some duct tape to cover the joins on top, to the same end.
Overall I am very pleased with how this turned out and we found worked very well and the resulting footage, I think, turned out to be one of the best shots in the finished trailer and gave a very professional look to the scenes it was used in.
If I was to create another version of this dolly one improvement I would make would be to somehow make some sort of rail system to keep the skateboard in a perfectly straight line, as at first we found that the board tended to lean slightly to one side due to the ground faintly sloping and so was turning to the left a bit and sometimes rolling completely off the ‘track ’ when we were first trying it out. But after practice we were able to overcome this problem by putting a bit more weight on to the opposite side, thereby negating the problems that the unforeseen sloping caused.
For the second shot that required the use of the dolly, we were inside, on a smooth lino floor in our school corridor so the laminate flooring 'track' was not needed.
Here are some pictures and a video of the track in use
Thursday 3 March 2011
Shooting Timetable
Here is a table of all the filming we did, when we did it , who was there, and what props we would need for each shot.
It was important to plan far in advance for our filming as we had a large cast and it was difficult to arrange days on which everyone was available. It was important therefore, that when we had such an opportunity we had planned ahead for any and to nake sure that we did the shooting in an time efficient way, and to make sure we got all of the shots required completed within the timeframe that we had. There where many factors that we had to take into account when we were planning to do a shoot:
• Availability of cast and crew
• Weather
• Light, a lot of our filming was done during the winter period, where it gets dark quickly.
• Times that we could organise and negotiate permission to film in locations where this was required.
It was important to plan far in advance for our filming as we had a large cast and it was difficult to arrange days on which everyone was available. It was important therefore, that when we had such an opportunity we had planned ahead for any and to nake sure that we did the shooting in an time efficient way, and to make sure we got all of the shots required completed within the timeframe that we had. There where many factors that we had to take into account when we were planning to do a shoot:
• Availability of cast and crew
• Weather
• Light, a lot of our filming was done during the winter period, where it gets dark quickly.
• Times that we could organise and negotiate permission to film in locations where this was required.
Thursday 10 February 2011
Choice of Genre
When deciding our genre, we took into account our audience research questionnaire (here)
We wanted to do something a bit unusual that perhaps wasn’t a common genre. During our research and from personal film taste, we found that both Josh and I liked the cool, sophisticated style of Ocean’s 11 and its sequels. This also fitted with our desire to go for something a bit different, as crime caper films, such as Ocean’s 11 and The Italian Job, with their playful, tongue in cheek and comedic style, haven’t really been in the mainstream cinema since the early 00’s.
The most recent releases of these films, the Ocean’s 11 franchise (2001-2007) and The Italian Job (2003) are remakes of films of the same name from the 1960’s. Following this 'tradition' amongst the genre , we decided to add some elements of homage and tribute to these films, using various different elements from the original films. In the finished trailer these ended up being:
A film poster for the original Ocean's 11 hanging on the table in the workshop scene
The trailer for the original Ocean's 11 playing in the background in James' character shot
The Roulette wheel landing on number 11 and the number's visible when the dice land's adding up to 11
The use of a similar camera shot composition, using dialogue to a similar effect
We wanted to do something a bit unusual that perhaps wasn’t a common genre. During our research and from personal film taste, we found that both Josh and I liked the cool, sophisticated style of Ocean’s 11 and its sequels. This also fitted with our desire to go for something a bit different, as crime caper films, such as Ocean’s 11 and The Italian Job, with their playful, tongue in cheek and comedic style, haven’t really been in the mainstream cinema since the early 00’s.
The most recent releases of these films, the Ocean’s 11 franchise (2001-2007) and The Italian Job (2003) are remakes of films of the same name from the 1960’s. Following this 'tradition' amongst the genre , we decided to add some elements of homage and tribute to these films, using various different elements from the original films. In the finished trailer these ended up being:
A film poster for the original Ocean's 11 hanging on the table in the workshop scene
The trailer for the original Ocean's 11 playing in the background in James' character shot
The Roulette wheel landing on number 11 and the number's visible when the dice land's adding up to 11
The use of a similar camera shot composition, using dialogue to a similar effect
Location, Location, Location
This is the list of all the locations that we used in our filming
• Alex’s House,
Shotgate
• Alex, The,
Southend
• Beauchamps High School- DT room,
Wickford
• Beauchamps High School Playground/Car park,
Wickford
• Burnt Mills Industrial Estate, Basildon
• Chatham Maritime Marina
• Southend Sea Front
• Royals Shopping Centre,
Southend
• Southend Victoria Station Car Park
Southend
For our production we used a wide variety of locations. Mise-en-scène is one of the most important and along with props we used location to create the scenes appropriate to the film.
Our choices of locations were primarily dictated by availability, suitability and accessibility, but some locations, such as Chatham Marina, was the only place that the boat scenes could be shot, because that was where the boat was. Southend, we decided would be a good place to get a lot of the filming done. It is a local place that we know well, is easy to get to and has a good variety of different places within a relatively small area. Another way we chose locations is, whilst we’re were planning the shot lists, thinking of them as they would be in a certain location, such as the shot in my house with James using the computers.
Some locations, such as the Royals Shopping Centre and The Alex, a pub in Southend we had to ask permission to film there. We phoned ahead from school to the shopping centre to explain what we wanted to do and where we would be doing it. The Alex wasn’t as much of a problem as Josh knows the management and getting permission wasn’t difficult to arrange.
• Alex’s House,
Shotgate
• Alex, The,
Southend
• Beauchamps High School- DT room,
Wickford
• Beauchamps High School Playground/Car park,
Wickford
• Burnt Mills Industrial Estate, Basildon
• Chatham Maritime Marina
• Southend Sea Front
• Royals Shopping Centre,
Southend
• Southend Victoria Station Car Park
Southend
For our production we used a wide variety of locations. Mise-en-scène is one of the most important and along with props we used location to create the scenes appropriate to the film.
Our choices of locations were primarily dictated by availability, suitability and accessibility, but some locations, such as Chatham Marina, was the only place that the boat scenes could be shot, because that was where the boat was. Southend, we decided would be a good place to get a lot of the filming done. It is a local place that we know well, is easy to get to and has a good variety of different places within a relatively small area. Another way we chose locations is, whilst we’re were planning the shot lists, thinking of them as they would be in a certain location, such as the shot in my house with James using the computers.
Some locations, such as the Royals Shopping Centre and The Alex, a pub in Southend we had to ask permission to film there. We phoned ahead from school to the shopping centre to explain what we wanted to do and where we would be doing it. The Alex wasn’t as much of a problem as Josh knows the management and getting permission wasn’t difficult to arrange.
Wednesday 9 February 2011
Audience Research Questionnaire
1. What is your favourite genre of film? (can select more than one)
Our research into genre showed that comedy was a clear favourite, so we decided to try and include a bit more humour into our initial idea. We decided not to do just a thriller, comedy or romance or a combination of these. Although they were popular with people we asked, we felt that there has been an over saturation recently of this genre and thought that doing something different that perhaps hadn’t been as popular recently would be a good idea. To this end we decided to do a comedy crime caper film, and added some films of this genre to our research.
2. What conventions would you expect from a Crime Caper film such as Ocean’s Eleven or the Italian Job?
Our genre decided, we wanted to find out what conventions our audience would expect to see from it. From the questionnaire we compiled this list of what our audience said:
· Clues
· Funny Characters
· Misdirection
· Antagonists and Protagonists
· Action
· Stylish Clothing
· Jazz style Music
· Slapstick
· Chase sequence
· Formal mise-en-scène
· Stunts
· Variety of Locations
· Pace
• Slapstick
From our own research from watching this genre of film we added to this list:
· Large, ensemble cast
· Playing card motifs
· Casino paraphernalia
· Strong red, white and black colour scheme
We used this list, which was largely in line with what we expected, and own our ideas that weren’t included to start planning out our trailer, trying to include as many of these ideas as we could. This helped us create our shot list, shooting script and storyboards
3. How important are teaser trailers when you decide to see a film
We found from this question that teaser trailers are, to most of our audience, a considerably important part of the promotion for a film, 61% answered either very or quite a bit. This showed us that the audience would expect the teaser trailer to be a good representation of the film as they would be basing a lot of their decision of seeing the film on the teaser.
4. If a teaser trailer appealed to you, would you see the film, even if it wasn’t a genre you would normally see?
We asked this question, as we knew the genre we picked wasn’t a particularly main stream one with the majority of people we asked. This was an important question, and as most of the people we asked said yes and the remainder said maybe, we knew that if we made the trailer appeal to a wide audience, the lack of popularity and familiarity with the genre wouldn’t be a problem.
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Saturday 8 January 2011
Initial Shot List and Shooting Script
This is the completed initial shot list and shooting script for our teaser trailer made after our research. For inspiration for the shots we looked through our research (here) and (here) as well as watching entire films of our chosen genre, such as Oceans 11, its remake and its sequels and also both versions of the Italian Job among others. This was particularly important was we needed to make sure that our shot choices were indicative of our genre as well as following the conventions of real teaser trailers, even more so as we were planning on adding some homage aspects to these films in to our production.
Shots 20a-j haven't got a set order yet as at the time of posting, we had not made a final decision on the order in which we wanted them and that would best fit the feel of the trailer.
Any amendments and changes we had, or felt we had, to make, including the finalised order for shots 20a-j will be posted after we have completed our filming.
Shot List
1. Two Shot/Over the Shoulder Shot: Sitting at a table, playing cards.
Dialogue: ‘Ok, so we’re gonna steal it’
Fade
2. Graphic Shot: Production Logo
Fade
3. Tracking Shot: Case, low level, walking along
Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘We’ll need a team’
Fade
4. Graphic Shot: Production Logo
Fade
5. Establishing Long Shot: Exterior of London building
Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘So, who’s in?’
Music change
6. Mid Shot: Walk towards camera, straighten tie. (freeze)
Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
7. Graphic Shot: ‘From the Director of ‘The Confession’’
8. Long Shot: Taking photo from a car window. (freeze)
Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
9. Graphic Shot: ‘And the Producer of ‘Cool Ridings’
10. Mid/Long Shot: Room, darkly lit, computer screens.
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
11. Graphic Shot: ‘The World’s Best Thieves’
12. Long Shot: Character waking up on a sofa, coffee table with assorted
drinks/dirty plates etc. (freeze)
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
13. Graphic Shot: ‘On the World’s Biggest Heist’
14. Mid/Close Up: Take off motorcycle helmet. (freeze)
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
15. Graphic Shot: ‘High Stakes’
16. Mid Shot: Shuffling cards
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
17. Graphic Shot: ‘Big Reward’
18. Mid/Long Shot: Tracking slightly down corridor
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
19. Long Shot: A board/conference room, unravel plans/blueprints.
Dialogue: Here’s the plan
Music Change
20. Lots of quick cuts between various shots including:
a) Motorbike footage
b) Jumping into back of van
c) Running
d) Casino footage
e) Explosion in science lab
f) Dice rolling
g) More exteriors of buildings
h) Handing over the case in a car park
i) Boat going around
j) Various back of head slaps, 4, 5?
21. Mid/Long: Poke head through door
Dialogue ‘So what we stealing’
22. Graphic Shot: Title: ‘The Case’
23. Long Shot: Lift opens, most of cast inside
Onscreen Graphic: ‘Opening Soon’
24. Graphic Shot: Production companies, actor credits.
25. Graphic Shot: Production credits e.g. Director, Producer, Casting etc.
Production logos, website.
Shooting Script
Shots 20a-j haven't got a set order yet as at the time of posting, we had not made a final decision on the order in which we wanted them and that would best fit the feel of the trailer.
Any amendments and changes we had, or felt we had, to make, including the finalised order for shots 20a-j will be posted after we have completed our filming.
Shot List
1. Two Shot/Over the Shoulder Shot: Sitting at a table, playing cards.
Dialogue: ‘Ok, so we’re gonna steal it’
Fade
2. Graphic Shot: Production Logo
Fade
3. Tracking Shot: Case, low level, walking along
Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘We’ll need a team’
Fade
4. Graphic Shot: Production Logo
Fade
5. Establishing Long Shot: Exterior of London building
Voiceover: Dialogue: ‘So, who’s in?’
Music change
6. Mid Shot: Walk towards camera, straighten tie. (freeze)
Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
7. Graphic Shot: ‘From the Director of ‘The Confession’’
8. Long Shot: Taking photo from a car window. (freeze)
Onscreen graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
9. Graphic Shot: ‘And the Producer of ‘Cool Ridings’
10. Mid/Long Shot: Room, darkly lit, computer screens.
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
11. Graphic Shot: ‘The World’s Best Thieves’
12. Long Shot: Character waking up on a sofa, coffee table with assorted
drinks/dirty plates etc. (freeze)
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
13. Graphic Shot: ‘On the World’s Biggest Heist’
14. Mid/Close Up: Take off motorcycle helmet. (freeze)
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
15. Graphic Shot: ‘High Stakes’
16. Mid Shot: Shuffling cards
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
17. Graphic Shot: ‘Big Reward’
18. Mid/Long Shot: Tracking slightly down corridor
Onscreen Graphics: ‘Actor’s Name’
19. Long Shot: A board/conference room, unravel plans/blueprints.
Dialogue: Here’s the plan
Music Change
20. Lots of quick cuts between various shots including:
a) Motorbike footage
b) Jumping into back of van
c) Running
d) Casino footage
e) Explosion in science lab
f) Dice rolling
g) More exteriors of buildings
h) Handing over the case in a car park
i) Boat going around
j) Various back of head slaps, 4, 5?
21. Mid/Long: Poke head through door
Dialogue ‘So what we stealing’
22. Graphic Shot: Title: ‘The Case’
23. Long Shot: Lift opens, most of cast inside
Onscreen Graphic: ‘Opening Soon’
24. Graphic Shot: Production companies, actor credits.
25. Graphic Shot: Production credits e.g. Director, Producer, Casting etc.
Production logos, website.
Shooting Script
Wednesday 5 January 2011
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