Thursday, February 4, 2021

Step-by-step

 Step-by-step for our opening sequence 

- Female detective walking into the house (The lodge) - walking in-front of the camera / camera follows her in - tracking shot.

- She hears heavy breathing / someone 'struggling' to breathe - close up on her facial expressions

- Follows the heavy breathing - tracking shot.

- Finds the young girl / boy lying on the floor, close to death - extreme long shot to show her and the body in frame.

- The 'detective' then kneels down to the body - changing camera height so that the camera is at the same height as the detective.

- The girl / boy close to death then struggles to say "he's still here" - close up on the individuals face as they say this line.

- Extreme close up on detectives face to show her change in emotions through facial expressions.

- Point of view angle from the detectives perspective of the individual fighting for their life and struggling to breathe.

- Slow zoom out which becomes an extreme long shot of the detective slowly grabbing hold of her gun which is in her back pocket.

- Detective slowly stands up and turns around - mid shot

- Detective pulls her gun up close to her face as if she's ready to shoot - mid shot.

- Camera goes to point of view angle of the detective walking around.

- Hand held camera movements as she is walking around the house cautiously (holding her gun in front of her face).

- Detective turns the corner into another room - point of view camera angle. 

- Murderer (attempt murderer) standing ahead of her - point of view camera angle.

- Extreme long shot of the 'murderer' running (speed walking) towards the detective holding a bloody knife.

- Extreme close up on female detective as she shoots the male / female 'murderer' with no hesitation.

- Shot reverse shot. 

- Long shot portrayed to show the dead body of the male / female that the detective has just shot.

- Cuts back to the female detective.

- Low angle portrayed as the female detective turns her back away from the body but then sharply turns back towards the dead body and shoots again.

- Long shot used to portray the dead body and a slow zoom into him/her.

- Back to a low angle of the female detective walking away - towards the door with the sound of her boots / heels pressing against the floorboards 

- Background goes out of focus as she reaches and exists the door / house and the sound of police cars and an ambulance slowly approach.

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