Shooting Script

This is the table outlining our shooting script. This includes all the necessary information such as location, the shot types, any dialogue that may be used and travel information so everything can run smoothly.

Location	Shot	Dialogue	Travel
London Eye	Long shot of Alex and Harriet walking along by London Eye	N/A	Charing Cross Station then walk
Food stall by London Eye	Long/medium shot of Alex buying food for himself and Harriet	N/A	Charing Cross Station then walk
Screens at Picadilly Circus	Medium low angle shot of Alex and Harriet looking up at screens/around Picadilly Circus	N/A	Picadilly Circus Underground
Being followed around Leicester Square	Hand-held long shot of Alex and Harriet followed by Ben through Leicester Square	N/A	Walk from Picadilly Circus
Sitting on wall in Leicester Square	Medium shot of Alex and Harriet sitting together on wall in Leicester Square	N/A	Walk from Picadilly Circus
Following Alex and Harriet around Covent Garden	Hand-held long/medium shots of Ben following Alex and Harriet round Covent Garden	N/A	Covent Garden Undersground
Ben in hoody puts memory stick put in Alex's back pocket on Hungerford Bridge	Medium shot and close up	N/A	Charing Cross Station and walk
Confrontation between Alex and Ben in alley	Medium shot to close up, and close up of Alex and Ben individually	“Give me what I want” “I don't have anything, I don't know what you're talking about”
Hungerford Bridge	Pan from Houses of Parliament to London Eye	N/A	Charing Cross Station
London Bridge	Pan of London Bridge	N/A	London Bridge Station
One NewChange	Pan of London from roof of NewChange	N/A	St Pauls Underground
Walking through Picadilly Circus	Hand-held shot walking through Picadilly Circus	N/A	Picadilly Circus Underground
Shot of buses at Picadilly Circus	Long/medium shot from side of road of buses coming along road past camera	N/A	Picadilly Circus Underground
Chase along street	Long shot from front of Alex and gov. chasing Low angle medium shot of feet running past camera POV of Alex POV of government	N/A	Tunbridge Wells
Alley	Long shot of Alex running into alley to hide Close up of Harriet phoning Alex Close up of Alex answering phone Close up of Alex shouting down phone Long shot of gov. running into alley	“I can't talk right now” “Stay safe”	Tunbridge Wells
Car park argument	High angle from corner Long shot from side Close up of Alex's face Close up of gov. faces	“What do you want from me?!” “Give it to us!”	Tunbridge Wells
Laying on floor looking up at gov.	Low angle out of focus shot	N/A	Tunbridge Wells
Roof of car park	Medium shot of Alex looking over edge from behind Close up of Alex's face from side looking down Medium/long shot of Alex looking down with gov. running in from behind Long shot from behind of gov. looking over edge	N/A	Tunbridge Wells
Alex looking behind	Close up of Alex from behind looking over shoulder	N/A	Tunbridge Wells

Storyboard: Version 1

Below is an image of our completed storyboard (first version), a clear guide as to how we should go about shooting our desired trailer.

Codes and Conventions of a Thriller

After looking at Codes and Conventions of a Teaser Trailer and deciding upon a Genre, we found the need to research the codes and conventions within this. We used both the internet and watched some of the thrillers ourselves to find some patterns and made a poster (below) to show what we found out.

Codes and Conventions of the Thriller Genre

SoundCloud

We are currently considering using a soundtrack to overlay our teaser trailer, as this seems to be a common trend in current film marketing.  After researching music sharing sites such as ‘MySpace’, ‘Last.fm’ and ‘8tracks’, we have recently discovered the website ‘SoundCloud’. 

As mentioned in our ‘Problems and Solutions’ post, SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows the ‘collaboration promotion and distribution of audio recordings by users’.  It was founded in 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss, and has since accumulated over 20 million users (growing by 1.5 million every month).  On SoundCloud we have found a number of potentially useable soundtracks available for free download, with permission from the creator to adapt and publish them.  This tool may save considerable time during our project, as our group does not have the ability to compose and create our own professional sounding music. 

Problems and Solutions

Whilst planning the construction of our film trailer, we discovered several problems which we may encounter in the future.  To ensure these issues were eliminated as quickly as possible, we organised a brainstorming session to create potential solutions.  Overall we were able to produce a practical solution for every problem that may occur in future creative processes, and below is a photograph of said list.