Final Idea Shot List

1. Criminal entering the house.
2. POV of the criminal looking around.
3. Shot of home owner waking up after hearing a noise downstairs.
4. Homeowner walking down the stairs with a weapon.
5. Close Up of homeowner stopping on the stairs with a frightened expression after hearing that someone is in his house. (noises coming from the next room)
6. Pan of homeowner continuing down the stairs and entering the living room.
7. POV of homeowner looking around the room (heavy Breathing, building tension)
8. Long shot of living room showing homeowner and criminal seeing each other for the first time.
9. (shot) CU of criminal.
10. (Reverse) CU of homeowner.
11. (shot) CU criminal
12. Long shot of criminal running through the living room and past the homeowner, pushing him over, and running out the front door.
13. Long shot of front door opening with the criminal running out and the homeowner following.
14. POV of criminal running down the road.
15. POV of homeowner following the criminal.
16. Pan of the chase down the road, towards the alley.
17. Track of the chase down the road.
18. Long shot of the alley opening, with the criminal entering, followed by the homeowner.
19. POV of criminal running down the alley.
20. POV of H.O chasing the crim. down the alley.
21. Back to POV of criminal.
22. POV of homeowner.
23. Homeowner turn the corner and the criminal is gone. Cuts to black with the title on screen.

Ideas for Thriller Opening

Continuity Task - Class Comments

The sound was very basic and needed the levels mastered better, but the introduction of non-diegetic sound was very effective. The shot reverse shot was well framed and well edited. The mid hot was poorly framed. A variety of shots was evident and there was some issues with continuity.

Targets
1. Improve framing
2. Improve the rate of continuity by adding more shots
3. Practise camera movements

Our continuity task achieved level two at 30/60.

Continuity Task

Moving Pictures - The Storyboard Process

The Director M. Night. Shyamalan, who directed such films as The Village, Unbreakable, Signs and The Sixth Sense, storyboards in great detail. He does this in order to test ideas in advance, to make key decisions, to plan the time of each scene and to be specific. By storyboarding M. Night. Shyamalan becomes the actor, the audience as well as the director. He believes that storyboarding is "Making the movie before your making the movie". Storyboards are good to use because they are a point of reference when filming and they are the worst version of the film so what is produced must be better.

Sound is also storyboarded. Sound is very powerful and important in film because it adds tension and sets the atmosphere. In The Sixth Sense vasts amount of sound was used to add tension. Human breaths were used as well as the sound of people crying, groaning and screaming. This was done to create emotion and to add a spiritual feel to the film. In The Village a bell chime was repeated so many times it was made into a humming sound. This sound was then used to represent a woman.

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