Shot em quick

Well, since the last blog me and Stef have composed the shot list that we will use when we start filming. We decided that we should do this before we started entering shots into the storyboard so that they are accurate. This took a while to do and when we finished we felt that we were really happy with our shots.

One idea I came up with which I was particularly happy with was the dead girl, Catherine, is sitting cross legged surrounded with candles right at the end of the teaser trailer. She is playing with the candles and singing under breath the nursery rhyme, "Mary mary". This will be done as a wide shot. Then she finishes by blowing out the candle. And the song finishs
However Stef came up with an idea to finish it which the whole group preferred, where Catherine extingushs the flame with her fingers. This would work well as the ideas of flames and nusery rhymes are quite contrasting.

This is the shot list

Shot list
1) Fade transition into film company logo of “Hammer Film Productions”
2) Fade transition into establishing shot of girl swinging alone in a park
3) Straight cut to wide shot behind the swing of Mary swinging with diegetic sound of chains squeaking
4) Point-of-view shot of Mary on swing leaning back, repeated four times with not there then suddenly appearing
5) Close up of Mary’s feet digging into ground to stop swinging
6) Over-the-shoulder shot of Catherine who says “Hi. I’m Catherine.”
7) Reversal over-the-shoulder shot of Mary replying “Erm, hi, I’m Mary.”
8) Long shot of the two girls talking along with non diegetic voice-over of “Mary’s mother” saying “You’re such a lonely girl Mary, why don’t you try and make some friends?”
9) Long shot of girls leaving the park as voice-over continues (sound bridge)
10) Wide shot of two girls on bed, laughing and chatting with happy sounding non-diegetic background music
11) Fade transition into a mid shot of two girls walking down a high street talking
12) Straight cut into mid shot of the girls linking arms
13) Fade transition into a close-up of Catherine’s hand going slowly onto Mary’s shoulder followed by an immediate straight cut to a black screen
14) Fade transition into title “But friendships can change”
15) Fade cut into long shot of the two girls looking into a mirror in bathroom
16) Mid shot of Mary saying “I wish you’d stop staring at me Catherine”
17) Wide shot from the side of Mary leaning over sink, washing face
18) Mid shot of steam rising from the sink
19) Over-the-shoulder shot from behind of Mary straightening up and looking in mirror as “R.I.P Mary” is written in the steam on mirror with non diegetic tense background music
20) Fast cuts between the following…
21) a) Long shot of Mary running
22) b) Close up of keys falling off table
23) c) Mid shot of door slamming
24) d) Long shot of Mary running part 2
25) e) Close up of Catherine laughing and diegetic sound of laughter continues throughout rest of fast cuts
26) f) Mid shot of pages of book blowing
27) g) Long shot of Mary running part 3
28) h) Close up of Mary screaming and diegetic sound of screaming continues throughout the rest of the fast cuts
29) i) Close up of wrists tied up with chains with diegetic sound of chains squeaking
30) j) Close up of tap and sink
31) k)Zoom out shot of sink filled with “blood”
32) l) Immediate cut to black screen
33) Long shot of Mary running on beach yelling “CATHERINE!”
34) Long shot behind of Catherine, waist high in sea turning around, smiling creepily
35) Wide shot of Catherine with candles surrounding her playing with them. Singing nursery rhyme ‘Mary Mary’ to her self when dies out candles are extinguished
36) Title screen

We will film extra scenes and maybe change diffrent scenes when we actually shoot it but for now it is what we will story board.

Helena