Screenplays, Storyboards and Shooting Plans

8/14/2019 Screenplays, Storyboards and Shooting Plans

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Screenplays, Storyboards and

Shooting Plans

Lesson objectives:

~ get first drafts of your screenplays,storyboards and shooting plans finished

~ present your ideas to the class to get

feedback


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How Can We Improve Your Blogs

1. Upload your analysis of an opening sequenceand audience research.

2. Upload reconnaissance location photographs,

explaining how the locations will be used.

3. Whenever you make a production decision, write

about it on your blog.

4. Upload as many opening sequence with

comments onto your blog as you can. Includecomments on pace (how many shots in each

sequences, how long are the shots), soundtrack

and titles.


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By this time next week

you must have on your blogs:

your analysis of an opening sequence and youraudience research

reconnaissance location photographs, explaining how

the locations will be used notes on production decisions you have taken

at leasttwo thriller opening sequences with comments

feedback from the rest of the class (and anyone else

you are able to ask) about your ideas.Otherwise, with Ms Bhasin, I will begin proceedings to

remove you from the course.


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Screenplay


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Storyboard


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Shooting Plan

Location 1: Council estate overcast weather, dusk

Birds-eye long shot of estate - pan

Birds-eye long shot of estate man walking towards camera

Mid-shot of man walking, legs only- low-angle, tracking

High angle shot of victimOver shoulder PoV shot of victim.

Location 2: modern, expensive looking office, dusk

Establishing shot of office, pan

Close up of man in suit, from the side, talking on phone

Shot of man walking away from camera, out of office, from close upto long shot.


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Audience research

What you need to ask: age

gender

how often they watch films

how / where they watch films (cinema, DVD, TV[free channels or Sky movie / pay per view],internet, legal, pirate, etc.

what genre of films they like and why

do they like / how often do they watch thrillers?

what does a film (or specifically a thriller) have todo to grab their attention and make them watch it?

what do they expect to see in a thriller?


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Presentation of Audience Research

Survey Results

1. Group names, working title of film(Project: Menacing Times (working title))

and Audience Research for ThrillerOpening Sequence

2. A copy of the questionnaire (best to scan

in)3. Details of how many people you asked,what their gender and age range was,when you did the survey.


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Presentation of Audience Research

Survey Results

4. Bar charts, with notes

5. Summary of results

6. Three most important / surprising /striking / useful things you learnt

7. Two definite ways in which what you

have learnt from the survey has affectedyour plans for the opening sequence.

Documents

Screenplays, Storyboards and Shooting Plans