Shot List

INT. BATHROOM

Shot - Close up of Luke's face under water, showing emotion and introducing the main character of the film

Shot - Long shot showing the side of Luke as he pulls his head out from a sink, establishes the room as a bathroom and that Luke was washing his face, he then reaches out for a towel.

Shot - Extreme close up of the towel as Luke grabs it, match on action shot.

Shot - medium-long shot as Luke dries his face before leaving the bathroom.

Shot - Long shot of Luke walking accross the landing in order to establish he is going to enter a different room, possibly showing him reaching for the door handle

INT. BEDROOM

Shot - Close up of a door, just before it opens and Luke enters.

Shot - long shot, establishing the room as a bedroom, Luke gets out a duffel bag and places it onto the bed.

Shot - Extreme close up of a small pile of t shirts and jeans. Lukes hand comes into each of the following shots and grabs the objects.

Shot - Extreme close up of socks and underwear.

Shot - Extreme close up of IPod.

Shot - Extreme close up a digital camera and a laptop.

Shot - Extreme close up of a wad of cash rolled up and tied with an elastic band.

Shot - Close up of the duffel bag, filled with all the objects from the previous shots.

Shot - Long shot, showing the room and Luke zipping up the bag, he thens goes over to a shelf and reaches for a video camera.

Shot - A close up of the video camera as Luke picks it up.

Shot - returning to the Long shot from before, Luke plays with the camera a bit, turning it on and picking up the duffel bag, he walks towards the door and opens it.

INT. HALLWAY - DAY

Shot handheld - The camera is now showing the view from the handheld camera, the shot starts from the other side of the door, Luke closes the door to his bedroom before turning around and making his way downstairs, half way down he lowers the camera don to the floor and the shot cuts to a normal camera shot.

Shot - Long shot looking up at Luke on the stairs as he shouts Nicole, he then starts to walk back down the stairs.

Shot - Long shot from the bottom of the stairs and showing the doorway, Luke gets to the bottom of the stairs and puts down his bag, he starts adjusting his shirt in the mirror.

Shot - Medium close up of Luke as he is adjusting hs collar, again this is to familiarise the audience with the character.

Shot - Long shot from before as Luke gets the camera back out and points it towards his face.

Shot - the same medium close up but this time the camera covers most of Lukes face although we can see him through the screen of the video camera. He turns the camera slightly cutting to...

Shot handheld - The handheld camera shot rotates around and shows Nicole walking in with a coffee in her hand, dialogue takes place and the camera gets closer to Nicole as Luke moves closer, then the camera moves down to the floor before turning off.

EXT. STREET

Shot - Extreme long shot showing the outside of the house from the street, Luke and Nicole exit from the house and Luke makes his way down the drive as Nicole stands by the door.

Shot - Long shot showing Luke from the side as he walks down the drive and then up to his car. he reaches out to open the car door.

Shot - Extreme close up of the car door handle as luke grabs it and pulls to open the door.

Shot - Long shot of Luke opening the door fully and getting in. He is only half way in as he is putting things in the car.

Shot - Close up inside the car as Luke places the duffel bag in the footwell of the passenger side and the video camera on the passenger seat.

Shot - Long shot showing the whole car as Luke Gets in fully and ives one last wave to Nicole, he then reaches for the door handle and begins to shut it.

Shot - Medium shot from the rear of the car as the door slams shut and the engine starts, Luke then drives away from the camera and the shot fades out.

Shot - Medium shot from inside the car in the back passenger seats looking into the front and onto Luke driving. He reaches over to the passenger seat and picks up the video camera. Turning it on and putting it on the dashboard pointing at himself.

Shot handheld - Close up of Luke as he speaks to the camera, before moving his hand towards it and covering the screen ending the shot.


EXT. MC'DONALDS - DAY

Shot - Long shot tilting down/zooming to show Luke outside of the Mc'Donalds resturant. As he begins to fiddle with the camera, he manages to turn it on and points it at himself

Shot (handheld) - Medium shot. Luke films himself, whilst speaking. He aims the camera to the back of him to show the resturant and also the burger whilst he is speaking.

Shot - Medium-long shot. We see luke turning the camera off as he gets off the bonnet.


EXT. HARBOR - DAY

Shot (handheld) - Medium shot. Shows Luke lent over some railings filming himself, speaking, he turns around so the railings are behind him and shows a little of the scenery.

Shot - Long shot. Luke turns around so the railings are behimd him. We can see the view behind him, obviously at a port.

Shot (handheld) - Medium shot. Luke points the camera to the floor as he is turning it off.

Shot - Medium-shot. We see Luke pointing the camera to the floor as he is turning it off.


INT. SHIP - NIGHT

Shot (handheld) (long-continuous) - Medium shot. Luke is walking down the corridoor filming himself. He speaks, and turns the camera around to show down the corridoor. A lady can be seen walking towards him with a bright red coat and a suitcase. He stands to the side to let her past, and continues to speak. After he has finished, he turns the camera off whilst the camera is still pointed at him.

Shot - Long. We see Luke stand to the side as the lady passes him.


EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - DAY

Shot - Extreme-Long shot. Filming car driving along the countryside. As car approaches, camera does not pan but simply lets the car pass.

Shot - Long-shot. Filming car travelling down the road (from the back of another car)

Shot - Extreme-long shot. Camera points towards the countryside filming the view, and pans to the left to show Luke's car driving towards it. As the car comes close (and passes), the camera tilts full around (In total, a 270+ degree rotation).

Shot - Long-shot. Camera films car coming from right, and quickly pans to the left as car passes.

Shot - Long-shot. Filming parrellel to the road, filming Luke's car drive past.

Shot - Long-shot filming at a 45* angle out of the window to show Luke's car

INT. COUNTRYSIDE - DAY

Shot (handheld) - Medium-closeup. Luke is filming himself (apparently driving). He speaks, and then Melissa takes the camera from him (In one continuous shot)

Shot - Medium-closeup. Showing Luke filming himself

Shot - Medium-closeup. Slow-zoom shot shows Luke talking and passing over the camera

Shot - Medium-closeup. Showing Melissa filming herself

EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY

Shot – Long shot parallel to the road from a low angle, car drives past 

Shot (handheld) – Medium shot of passing trees; camera is a little out of focus, some of the car window can be seen.

INT. CAR – DAY

Shot – Medium shot through car windscreen, showing road ahead

Shot – Long shot from a distance of car at the side of the road 

Shot – Close up of Luke seeing the car 

Shot – Close up of Melissa

Shot – Long shot of Luke and Melissa slowing down and pulling over 

Shot – Low angle shot of Melissa and Luke getting out of the car from passenger side, audience can see Luke’s feet from underneath the car, pan to left with Melissa 

Shot – Medium shot from behind the bonnet of the other car, we can see Melissa and Luke in the shot walking towards the car. Luke stops. But Melissa carries on walking towards the camera

Shot – Medium shot, Melissa putting her arm around one of the strangers 

Shot – Medium shot, Luke puts his arms in the air 

Shot – Close up, metal bar slipping from the strangers’ sleeve 

Shot – Medium shot, Luke is hit with the weapon 

EXT. ROAD – DAY 

Shot – Medium shot, Melissa getting in the car with the two men 

Shot – Close up of door shutting 

Shot – Medium shot, Luke’s bad being thrown out of the car, pan to left as car drives away

EXT ROAD – DAY 

Shot – Long shot of quiet open road pan from left to right 

Shot – medium long shot of a man walking along the edge of the road 

Shot – close up of Luke in the road

Shot – medium shot of the man running towards Luke 

Shot – Close up of the man’s hand turning Luke over and Luke’s face

Shot – medium shot from low angle of the man on his mobile phone 

Shot – medium shot police/ ambulance arrive 

Shot – close up of police /ambulance closing Luke’s eyes 

INT. LIVING ROOM DAY

Shot – Medium shot of Nicole in living room 

Shot – Medium shot of Police officer 

Shot – Close up of Nicole 

Shot – Medium shot of Nicole closing the door and going over to the table 

Shot – Close up of Luke’s camera 

Shot – Close up of Nicole as she picks up the camera 

Shot – Close up of Nicole pressing play 

Shot – zoom into camera screen, (screen then become the picture and we watch the video first hand)

Shot – Close up of Nicole’s face

Filming Dates

This was our planning for filming dates for our project

We are filming!

After a lot of preparation and planning we are finally ready to begin filming our five minute short film. We have carried out a risk assessment to make sure we are taking all possible risks into account, we have also prepared a shot list which will act as a guideline for how we are going to film and we have also planned the locations and props that will feature in the film. After all that we have decided we are finally ready to begin filming and are starting today!

External Car Shot Research

One of the primary focuses on Luke's trip to Belgium and the Nethlands, (and the whole purpose of his journey), is to see incredible things. Therefore, we are aware that the only way that we can show these magnificent views is whilst we are filming the car driving around these two countries.

There are an unbelivable amount of shots that you can get from filming a car. A perfect example, we found was from the BBC show Top Gear. In this particular episode (like many others), Jeremy Clarkson is driving the Ford F150 Lightning around British Countryside, and has some brilliant shots. From researching and discussing some of the shots used throughout this 8 minute video, we are able to incorporate more unique shots within out shot list.

26 Brilliant Romance Films

Here are some of the films that we took inspiration from whilst planning out the entirety of our film. These films (among others), helped towards posts such as 'Genre Research: Romance', 'Film Title Ideas' and 'Script'.

All of these films are brilliant in their own way.

Genre Research: Romance

Last year, we all received A's for our coursework project for AS Media Studies. As the urban thriller genre was extremeley successfull for us, it would have made sense to create a short film for our A2 project, based upon similar concepts. Although the overall goal is to achieve an A, we also wanted the chance to be creative and try new things which is why we chose the Romance genre, as we knew it is a completley different aspect to anything we have created before.

There are certain elements in which people would assosiate with certain genres of film. For instance, a horror or thriller is likely to have eerie music, night scenes, murders and manic characters. An western however, would be assosiated with particular clothes, horses and the desert, but what about a romance?


Ghost

How does a romance film, differ from genres such as a drama or a 'chick flick'? According to Wikipedia, "A romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists"

To create a realistic romance film, we had to research into the romance genre, and what people typically thought a romance film should include. For this, we have used secondary research found from various places around the internet and our own interpretations.


The Notebook

Creating Obstacles and Tension between characters
To create a realistic, authentic storyline, boundaries and obstacles need to be present. A romance movie needs to be more than just 'a couple being romantic', as this would be an extremeley boring film, simply depicting how much two individuals love one and another. Creating obstacles will allow the audience to feel a sense of compassion, emotion and gives the story a sense of direction, and could include elements such as if one character: dies, is married, goes missing, kidnapped (among others)

Sexual
The majority of romance films have a sense of sexual activity between the primary characters at one point or another. A film doesn't have to show the scenario in great detail (Not only may this be considered distasteful, but may affect the certificate regulation), but often shows what is necessary to allow the audience to build repoir with the characters. Within romance films, this can be as subtle as holding hands, putting arms around eachother, or a kiss.. or as overt as full intercourse (obviously with much of it excluded, which I wont go into detail about)

Keep the audience guessing
Whilst endings in films such as PG (happy endings) or horrors (main character survives) are usually predictable - romance films are often quite unpredictable. Not only does this add to the excitement of the film, but it allows the audience to relate to the film overall - romance films are typically realistic to add realism and authenticity, and an unpredicted ending adds to the real-life comparison. Romance films are respected in this sense, as the audience's heart can be torn apart at times, or made up at others - and it is considered a great achievement to build such a powerful storyline in this way.

Likable characters
Whilst the storyline is typically realistic, the characters are often exadurated slightly. You may find, the male characters are often charming and lovley, whilst the female characters are beautiful and funny. This can be seen as a sort of psycological method that film producers use to help with the storyline, as the audience is always wanting the two characters to be together in the end, so making the characters as likable as possible greatly helps with this (to which then the writers could easily destroy them in a plot-twist)


Pretty Woman

Therefore, in brief, a good romance film may have many of the following features...

• Creates obstacles so the two characters cannot be together
• Involves physical romance
• Keeps the audience guessing
• Realistic so that the audience can relate it to real life
• Has an extremley happy or extremley sad ending which is unexpected
• The characters are brilliant

Take a look at the 5 movie stills from this post. How many of the above bullet points are you able to apply to these films? Presumable, a large proportion of them.


Titanic

Romance has always been a popular genre in creativity, as it's hard for people to say why they dislike them. People may hate horrors because they don't like to feel afraid, or hate sci-fi due to the unrealism - but romance is something that everyone at some point in their life will experience.


Twilight

Props

For our film we are going to use a number of props, this is a list of these props and a short description of what they are used for.

Handheld Video Camera - This is probably the most important prop used throuhout the whole film, it features a number of times because this is the camera that the main character is using to keep a video diary of his travels, not only will the audience see it being used as a prop but we are incorporating shots from this camera into the film. The camera plays a vital role in the film because it is this we see at the end as Nicole watches back the footage after she's found out Luke has died.

Laptop - This laptop is one of the items we will see the main character packing into his bag at the start of the film, we used this because we wanted to show he is taking all of his possessions therefore he must be going on a long trip.

Clothes - At the start of the film we also see the main character packing clothes into his bag, again we wanted to show the audience he is going on a trip of some kind. Therefore we have him packing all the essential items you would pack before setting off travelling.

Deodrant - This is another item the main character packs into his bag, the reason we wanted him packing all these items is because we wanted to cut them together quickly using jump cuts, this showed the audience he was packing his belongings but kept the scene moving at a fast pace.

Money - This is the last item we see Luke pack into his bag, like the other items it is to show he is packing up everything and that he must be going traveling or on some kind of trip.

Bag - This is the bag that we see all the items packed into, this also features at the end of the film, it is thrown out of the car and then the police officer brings it round when he delivers the bad news to Nicole, it is in this bag she finds the video camera and plays back the footage.

Towel - Finally this is a towel Luke uses at the start of the film to dry his face after washing his face in the sink, it plays no special role in the film it is just used in the scene because you would dry your face after washing it.