shot list

Shot List - Easy Money

Scene 1: INT: Adrians house

Shot :
1: CU Jonny flicking kettle on
2: MS Adrian asleep on sofa, jonny throws bills at him, he wakes up. Pan to shot 3
3: MS Jonny sits down looking over Adrian
4: Over shoulder shot, Adrian looking at a stern Jonny.
5: Over shoulder shot, Jonny looking at a tired Adrian.
(Cut between shot 4/5 for dialogue, with cut away's in between)
6: MS Jonny sitting infront of Adrian, who asks him 'whats the time' then leaves the room in a hurry, camera pans to follow him.
7: CU Jonny drops Head in to his hands and looks worried

Cut aways for Scene 1:
1: Low pan of messy floor
2: CU's of empty alcohol bottles/cans
3: MS of messy Kitchen
4: MS/CU of washing up

Scene 2: INT: Pub

Shot:
1: LS pan to follow Adrian run around corner and up to pub entrance, takes a moment to sort his appearence then walks up the stairs to pub and enters.
2: MS Adrian Walking through pub door to face an angry cheryl sat on a table opposite.
3: OS shot Adrian, takes his place sat opposite Cheryl.
4: OS shot Cheryl, we see a pleading Adrian
5: Two Shot, Adrian and Cheryl sat facing each other.
(Then cut between shots 3/4 as dialogue progresses)
5: CU (mid argument) Adrian tries to hold Cheryls hand but she pulls away
6: OS Shot Adrian, Cheryl tells him its over
7: MS from next to the door, Cheryl gets up and walks out, Camera pans to follow. Adrian is left central in the shot looking upset/annoyed.
8: LS of Pub entrance, Cheryl walks down stairs and out of shot.
9: MS Adrian sat at table looking upset, until his eyes notice Cheryls purse.
10: CU of purse. Adrians hand enters shot and slides purse back out of shot.
11: Cut back to shot 9. We see Adrian pocket the purse as he gets up to walk out
12: LS Adrian walks out of the pub and down the stairs, has a look to see what direction cheryl walked in and walks in the opposite.
13: XLS Adrian walks around street corner and walks straight toward camera, whilst getting his phone out and dialing a number
14: Camera follows along side Adrian whilst he speaks to Jonny on the phone.

Scene 3: INT: Oily Pete's House

Shot:
1: MS square behind Pete looking over his head at TV on which hes playing fifa.
2: MS Low angle looking up at Pete, with posters of interests in background
3: Front shot (as if the camera is the TV) of pete with controller intensely playing fifa, Jonny and Adrian enter after knocking and sit either side of Pete.
4: Shot of the 3 of them watching the TV, Whilst Pete has conversation with his mum through the door. Followed by banter with Adrian and Jonny
5: MS from the left, See all 3 of them sat on the bed talking, jonny picks up spliff...
6: CU of Jonny's face
7: Cut back to shot 5, conversation continues up to 'if he cuts your balls off..' followed by arkward silence
8: Two shot Adrian and Pete, look at each other
9: CU jonnys reaction
10: Cut back to two shot (shot 8)
11: MS from Right. Jonny and Adrian get up and leave the room.
12: Adrian reenters room to give pete his tea, and ask the address of raggy.


Scene 4: EXT/INT Raggy's House

Shot:
1: LS Adrian and Jonny walking up road (toward camera) to raggys, talking.
2: MS High angle Jonny and Adrian walk up past camera toward Raggys door. Camera pans to follow
3: CU from INT, Lawrence's hand on door handle, opens door and tracks outside to show Jonny and Adrian stood there.
4: CU nervous Adrian
5: CU nervous Jonny
6: MS head level behind Jonny and Adrian with Lawrence stood in the doorway down at them, he looks around to make sure noones looking before letting them in. Camera follows them in.
7: POV Adrian, follows Lawrence up to living room door, he then turns and talks directly to Adrian(Camera) 'wait here'
8: Two shot, high angle. looking down at Adrian and jonny. who nervously listen to whats going on inside the room.
9: OS of Raggy, we see a beaten up body on the floor. he orders lawrence to remove him. Then see lawrence drag him in to another room. Raggy then tells them to enter.
10: Same as shot 6, they enter the room.
11: MS from inside room, Adrian and jonny enter, camera pans to follow them, Lawrence emerges from the room he took the body into and stares at them.
12: MS of Raggy head on, wiping blood of knife.
13: Raggy POV, looking at Adrian and jonnys scared faces.
14: Cut back to 12, Raggy walks to the table and sits down, lawrence walks over to stand behind him. Raggy then tells them to sit down. Then asks 'what brings you here'
15: CU jonny looking at knife in raggys hand
16: Knife POV pointed at Jonny as Raggy asks what he has to say for himself.
17: MS of Adrian as Raggy tells him to let Jonny talk, and points knife at him threateningly
18: XCU Raggy's eyes, scoping them out
19: Wide angle with all chars in shot, as they hear a groan come from the next room. Raggy tells Lawrence to sort it out.
20: MS Lawrence leans over jonny threateningly as he passes him.
21: Wide angle
22: CU Raggy's eyes as he tells them he doesnt like being messed around.
23: Raggy POV, looks at them both
24: Zoom out from raggy back to the wide angle.
25: CU Jonny ' you can trust us'
26: Wide angle, Lawrence reenters to get raggy. PAN to follow an angry raggy enter room with random guy in. Closes door behind him. Aidrian spots an opportunity and runs out with drugs. closley followed by Jonny.

Scene 5: EXT: Chase Scene

1: XLS Adrian and Jonny running toward camera, away from raggy's house.
2: improv Chase scene ( on planned route, still need to decide on shots)
3: LS Jonny and Adrian get split up, Jonny runs in the opposite direction from Adrian.
4: LS Aidrian running away from camera and in to an ally.
5: INT: Low angle MCU Raggy. Phones a contact to make sure they are caught.
6: INT: MCU Shoulder level, Raggys contact picking up phone, cut between 5/6 for conversation.
7: Fade to XLS of jonny running through abandoned factory car park, runs through and towards the camera until he passes it, we then see the mob chasing him.
8: Improv shots of him trying to escape/ run away examples, running over a bridge, around corners, down paths, and a shaky cam of him running away, with his face CU and the mob over his shoulder chasing him in the background.
9: LS jonny runs round corner in to one of raggys men, the rest of the mob catch up and start to beat him up, ( quick cuts between puches and kicks until we see jonnys POV as he wets thrown to the ground,
10: POV Jonny looking up to see him getting stamped on. fade to black.

Personal Project

Over all i am happy with the out come of my Cookery video, and feel i achieved what i set out to create. The main things i liked and thought worked were:

-The Cook
Toots was really good and even though she had never done anything like this before she was better than i could have asked for, after a brief discussion about what she had to do and how, she took to the role wonderfully and keeps the audience interested even adding in little unrehearsed tips.

-The Location
Charlton Court turned out to be an ideal place to shoot it, with a good layout to accommodate for the variety of shots i planned and wanted to get.

-The Music
I think it's the perfect type to have used as its a good tempo to be talked over and to fill the image when theres no dialogue, it also helps to make the film feel as though its progressing.

The main things i think could be improved are:

-The Lighting
i think if i had lit the scene myself and had a more even/brighter lighting it would have made the overall image better. If i had used a Three point lighting technique i would have been able to achieve this, but due to lack of availability and time i wasnt able to sort this out.

-The Camera 4JbyS4eYLIaRsAb_6bTeCw
Using a higher quality camera would have benifited my end pictures, such as a Z1, But then again this would only have had real effect if the lighting was too improved.

if i was to do this project again the main thing i would change is: The menu, i would have picked something with little less ingredients as i dint have much time to show each one, and some of the more intricate details that went in to the prep, although they weren't vital, it would have been nice. As my first finished edit for this film (and the one i was most happy with) was 11 mins long.

Overall i am happy with the finished edit and think it is an interesting, and easy to follow recipe. i think that anyone who watches it will be capable of following it and giving cooking a go, regardless of their skill/knowledge of cooking.


Here is my Finished cookery video:

Group Cookery Video.

For this assignment we were asked to make a short (3 min) video for students on how to make something healthy and affordable. We were put in to small groups of 3 or 4 and i was put with Ant, Kirsty, and Simon. We decided to go with a pasta dish as its something fairly cheap, and nothing to challenging for any new comer student cooks out there. Ant handily remembered that Sainsburys do hand outs for meals, with step by step instructions. So we decided to go with the menu for 'Go Green Pasta' and our aim was to try and present in in a visually clear, easy to follow, and understandable way.

We decided to shoot in Ants Kitchen at Waterside court as it was one of the easiest places for everyone to get to and find, and because Ants house mates were nice enough to let us film there! We used Ants JVC camera and a hired monopod as we didn't feel a tripod was necessary for the shots we wanted to get. We shot in chronological order as this would make the editing process easier later on. Kirsty filled the role of cook, and Simon, Myself and Ant took it in turns to film, and direct, whilst all having in puts when we thought of something.

Ant was pretty happy about editing it as he had access to final cut on his lap top, and it was more a case of putting the footage in order rather than creating edits, and as we had filmed in chronological order we figured it wouldn't take him to long. i would have been happy to edit, but as ant owned final cut it seemed logical to let him. The music we wanted to use originally was Green Onions by Booker T. & The MG's but as we didnt have the right we couldn't keep it in the final edit. So we had some music from a Friend of James Harris's who had gotten the rights for Ant. It doesn't fit the film as well as our original idea but it works.

Group Project Evaluation

Yesterday we finished editing our group project. Im glad that weve got it finished but i wasnt too pleased with the end result. The main thing that let our film down was the planning, along with a lot of things that were out of our control, and to be honest alot of bad luck.

For example: Actors reliability / availability. On many occasions we were let down by actors, the best example of this being the actor that we had cast as adrian pulled out 2 days before filming, after being confirmed for over 3 weeks. This meant we had to use Carlinas boyfriend instead, so we could only film when he was down which limited us to a day or 2 a week at the most, and as he was the main character he was in ever scene. So whenever we were filming we were rushed to try and get each scene done asap so we could move to the next, which resulted in us missing shots, and some dialogue, which was a nightmare in the edit.

Another factor that made editing harder was the fact that most of our cast wernt actually actors, so when shooting they did things dramatically different in different shots, body positions being the main one. Examples of this were in the first scene, Matt(Aidrian) changes body position several times between shots, so the continuity wasn't always good, and often poor. Another example was in the pub scene, Carlina(Cheryl) was sat upright for the whole of her over the shoulder shot, then when we filmed Matts(Aidrians) she had her head rested on her hand. so it made cutting between the 2 imposible. Although these are all things im sure i would have noticed during filming had it not been for the rush we were in to get the scenes filmed.

Timing was another big issue, because on the first day of filming we started late morning filming the first scene, and then moved on to film the third and fourth afterwards, so they were all filmed in the same sort of light (sunny, day time) We got cut short of filming scene 4 because we filmed at chloes house, and one of her house mates wasnt happy with it, so we were asked to leave before we had a chance to shoot some crutial shots at the end of the scene. Which posed another problem in the edit. The next chance we then had to film with Matt and Chris both available was the following week at 8 in the evening, and as this was the last oppurtunity to film with Matt we had no other option. So myself and tom came up with a way of writing Aidrian out of the script so we wouldnt need to use him/film with him again. Our idea was to have Jonny and Aidrian split up while being chased, and to then carry on filming Jonny until he gets away, and then have him recieve a phone call from Aidrian sounding paniced, where we hear him through Jonnys phone say 'ive got away but the police saw me running and chased me' and ofcourse he still has the drugs on him. So we then hear him get arrested through the phone, and we end on a shot of Jonny looking distraught.

The were a lot lessons learnt over the process of making this film, and ones that i will defiantly keep in mid for future productions. The first is not to be too ambitious, and too keep to as few locations, and as little actors as possible. Our Film had a lot of both of these so by the time we got to filming everything was a bit manic and rushed, which hurt the overall outcome of the film. The second is timing. To plan and shoot way before the deadline, this way you have time to keep re-editing and asses the possibilities, and different ways around potential errors. this is something we prayed for during editing, and if wed had time to re shoot certain sequences/shots the continuity of our film could have been greatly improved. The third is to never rely on anyone that isn't in the production team, always have back up equipment/locations/actors because normally people aren't to inclined to do something for nothing (especially actors).

The main positive i took from this film was the idea of getting on with what you've got. Even though we didn't have anywhere near all the shots we needed for the originally planned edit, we still managed to put together a film that flows (mostly) and has a gripping story line. At first the task of editing this film seemed too much to do in the time we had, but once Tom and i got on with it and just thought, this is the only footage we have got so were going to have to make do with it, it went well. Im not happy with the final edit, but i am happy we managed to finish it, as it took a lot of work and was a real group effort. The main thing i would change about this production is the planning. We proved in the later part of the production we could do it, and if we had worked that hard all the way through the film would look a lot more like our original idea.


Here is the finished Film:


And the Bloopers:

Personal Project

For my personal project i have decided to make a cookery video on how to cook a roast dinner:

I chose to make a cookery video because before uni i hadn't ever made, or thought about making a cookery viideo, an after doing it in a group i found it interesting. Ive chosen to do a roast because its a very Britsh meal, and i personally dont know how to make one. So it will be interesting to plan it out and learn myself. Im going to try and make an easy to follow video with a pleasing out come, so anyone that watches it wants, or feels they could do it by following the video.

Im going to have a student cook act in the video so hopefully it will appeal to a younger audience, or people who are new to cooking. Im also going to use a voice over, over the finished edit. My goal is to interest people in cooking, and want to give a seemingly hard meal, a go themselves.

Im currently emailing my cook about the video, and she is going to let me know ingredients etc soon so i can gather them. For location i am going to use my cooks kitchen which is in halls. It isnt ideal but she too has a busy schedule and after talking to her about it, it is the best option. I have been watching a wide range of cookery videos to try and grasp an understanding of the key elements that make up a generic cookery video:

Wide angle

A shot of the cheif stood over, or next to the ingredients, which can be cut too, and from through out the video as they progress.

Close ups

- Of the food as its being prepared / cooked

- Of the cooking implements, e.g. frying pans, pots etc

Panning Shot

Another common aspect of a cookery video, a shoulder/head level shot that slightly pans between the cheif and what hes doing, and also zooms in and out of the action

Here are some videos that show these types of shots:

Group Production meeting 19.04.10

Today we met up to check out our progress and visit our list of shot locations. After checking with my friend about his availability i found out he isn't available due to work. So we will have to use one of the back up actors as the part of Raggy which is quite annoying because they don't fit the part as well as we would have liked.

Tom tried to book equipment out but couldn't due the fact he wasn't able to on the booking system, so we will have to speak to mike about it in tomorrows lecture. I experimented with creating the 'drugs' by putting flour in to a large baggy, which looks like a good enough method to use in our film.

We've found out that Victoria works will only let us film on the wednesday so due to lack of cast we may have to find a new location to film in (another pub) that we can use later in the week.

Carlina is currently finding out about cast and finalizing who we will use and when, so hopefully we can start filming this week! We are all going to look into finding props for the different scenes to make them more authentic, for example posters, books, things that reflect the characters interests and personalities.

Group Production meeting 18.04.10

We met up for the first time back from easter break to discuss our production, and its progress.

There had been some issues with cast, as 1 of our main characters is now unavailable, even though he had said a month ago he would do it. So we are now looking to replace them, or move filming dates to comply with there free time.

Kieran had heard back from victoria works who said its okay for us to film, but only at specific times, which may or may not fit in with our schedule. So were planning to film between wednesday and saturday, when ever the majority of the cast are available.

Tom has been tasked with sorting out equipment, including a Z1, tripod, microphone's and a monopod. Were also going to use another camera (probably a panasonic) to film the making of, and behind the scenes. These will be made available on the DVD.

Carlina is going to sort out the casting and find out when people are available and at what times, so we can sort out a shooting schedule based around when the most cast are available. She is also going to ask her boyfriend if he can play the part of Adrian, which would be a big help.

I am going to find out about our actor for Raggy as he recently got a job which could compromise his availability. And look in to creating some of the props (for example the drugs, and money which could be hard to make look good) We will meet up tomorrow again to scout locations and feed back on what we've done/found out.