Shot List

Number	Cut	Type	Visual Content	Sound	Lighting	Time	Location	Actor’s and Props
1	-	Long shot	Over the shoulder of the detective following the girl. Both walking	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	2s	Soho or bromley streets	Morgan  & Leo Pistol
2	Straight Cut	Establishing shot	Across the street of detective following the girl down the road	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	2s	Soho or bromley streets	Morgan & Leo Pistol
3	Straight Cut	Close up (Static, no tracking)	Face of the girl on the right of the screen whilst the detective is a figure in the background following her, both walking towards camera.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1.5s	Soho or bromley streets	Morgan & Leo Pistol
4	Straight Cut	Long shot	Similair to shot 2. The girl walks down an alleyway then the detective follows.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	2s	Soho or bromley streets	Morgan & Leo Pistol
5	Straight Cut	Long shot	Camera is at the end of the alleyway, you see the detective catch up to the girl grab her and put her against a wall.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	3s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo Pistol
6	Straight Cut	Close up	Camera is side on to both the detective and the girl, the detective has her up against a wall with a gun to her face and dialogue insues. When she says “He’s everywhere” the detective looks up and to the right slowly. The camera is shaky showing the action.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	4s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo Pistol
7	Straight Cut	Low angle shot	You can see a video camera that looks like a CCTV camera mounted on a wall.	Diegetic And dialogue sounds.	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Anywhere as you don’t see the full location, can only see the wall.	Morgan & Leo Pistol
8	Straight Cut	High angle shot	You see what the camera would see, the detective holding the girl against the wall looking up at the camera.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1.5s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo Pistol
9	Straight Cut	Mid shot. Zooms out from a close shot of the monitor screen showing the shot above.	You see the villain watching the shot above on a computer screen, he’s in a dark room.	Diegetic, loud boom as you pan out	Very dark lighting. Glow of the monitor screen.	2s	A computer room at school	Joe Monitor, mouse, keyboard, chairs. All props will be on location already.
10	Straight Cut	Close up	Same as shot 6 but the detective lets the girl go and she drops back to the floor	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo Pistol
11	Straight Cut	Close up POV of girl	You see the girl and she says “Last clue” and then leans in close to the camera as it cuts	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo Pistol
12	Straight Cut	Mid shot	Side on shot as the girl leans towards the detective and whispers something in his ear. The detective then puts his gun in his pocket.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	2.5s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo Pistol
13	Straight cut	Long shot	The end of the alleyway, same position as shot 5 and the detective runs off from the girl to the other side of the alleyway. You see her start to smile.	Diegetic	Low key natural lighting of the streets	2s	Alleyway	Morgan & Leo
14	Straight Cut	Close up	Close up of the girl you see her smile an evil smile then it cuts	Diegetic sound and the music starts	Low key natural lighting of the streets, possibly an above light to create interesting shadows.	1s	Alleyway	Morgan
15	Straight Cut	Mid shot	The detective is running along the streets and the camera is following behind him.	Music is playing	Low key natural lighting of the streets	2s	Streets of bromley/ anywhere	Leo
16	Straight Cut	Mid shot Zooms in slowly	You see the villain in the dark room, you only see the back of him and he’s typing.	Music is playing	Very dark lighting, glow of monitor	2s	Computer room at school	Joe
17	Straight cut	Long/mid shot	You see the corner of a street and the detective runs around the corner and pass the camera	Music is playing	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Streets of bromley/ anywhere	Leo
18	Straight cut	Mid shot still zooming in	Continued from shot 16	Music is playing	Very dark lighting, glow of monitor	1s	Computer room at school	Joe
19	Straight Cut	POV	Running down the streets	Music is playing	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Streets of bromley/ anywhere	None
20	Straight Cut	Mid shot	The detective runs up to a building slows down at the door then looks up	Music is playing	Low key natural lighting of the streets	3s	Streets of bromley/ london or anywhere	Leo
21	Straight cut	Close up/ establishing shot	From the detective’s hips you see part of him and the building from a low angle shot, him looking up at it.	Music is playing	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Streets of bromley/london	Leo
22	Straight Cut	Long shot	You see the detective start to run again as he enters the building	Music is playing	Low key natural lighting of the streets	1s	Streets of bromley/london	Leo
23	Straight cut	Mid shot still zooming in	Continued from shot 18	Music is playing	Very dark lighting, glow of monitor	1s	Computer room at school	Joe
24	Straight cut	Mid shot/ close up	You see what the monitor was seeing, the villains face working at a computer, typing.	Music is playing, one beat every now and then.	Very dark lighting, glow of monitor	1s	Computer room at school	Joe
25	Straight cut	Mid shot/ Long shot	You see through the doorway of the room the villain working at the desk and the detective is behind him.	Music is playing same as above	Very dark lighting, glow of monitor, can barely see two figures	2s	Computer room at school	Joe & Leo
26	Straight cut	Close up	You see the villain continue typing on the desk as the detective raises his gun to the back of his head.	Same as above music except building suspense up to a climax	Very dark lighting, glow of monitor on villains face and just a figure in the background	2s	Computer room at school	Joe & Leo
27	Straight cut	POV close up	You see the back of the villains head from the pov of the detective then the villain spins around before it cuts	Same as above, nearer climax	Very dark glow of monitor, possibly in need of filler lighting so you can see some things	2s	Computer room at school	Joe & Leo
28	Straight cut	Long shot	You see the detective holding the gun up to the villain through the doorway	almost at climax of music	Very dark glow of monitor almost no light, see two figures.	1s	Computer room at school	Joe & Leo
29	Straight cut	Close up	You see a close up of the detective, he tilts his head up so instead of seeing just the bottom of his face you see the whole thing, he’s smiling and he says “Game over”.	Music climaxes before game over is heard	Filler lights needed so you can see a shadow of his face until he tilts his head up	3s	Computer room at school	Leo
30	Straight cut	Long/mid shot	Through the doorway again of the detective pulling the trigger on the villain	Only diegetic sound and the sound of the gunshot	Low key lighting glow of monitors but mainly figures	2s	Computer room at school	Leo and Joe
31	Straight Cut	-	Blackout and introduction of title of the film	One or two bass beats	-	2s	-	-
32	Straight Cut	Mid shot	Front on view of the girl walking along the street in the daytime	Diegetic sound of busy streets	Lots of light, very bright lighting during the day	3s	Streets of Bromley/ London	Morgan Some type of bag
33	Straight Cut	Establishing shot	The girl walking the streets during the day on her way to a big building where she works.	Diegetic sound of busy streets	Lots of light, very bright lighting during the day	2s	Streets of Bromley / London	Morgan Some type of bag
34	Straight Cut	Mid shot	The detective walking along similar looking streets also on his way to work	Diegetic sound of busy streets	Lots of light very bright lighting during the day	2s	Streets of Bromley/ London	Leo Briefcase
35	Straight Cut	Long shot	The girl turning a corner of the streets, perhaps plugging in ipod headphones and turning on a music track that is then heard	Diegetic sound then muffled diegetic when headphones go on and then the music track when it starts playing	Lots of light very bright lighting during the day	2s	Streets of Bromley / London	Morgan Ipod headphones Some type of bag
36	Straight Cut	Mid shot	Behind the girl walking along the streets with her music in, catching up on her so moving shot	Music track	Lots of light very bright during the day	1s	Streets of Bromley / London	Morgan Ipod headphones Some type of bag
37	Straight Cut	Mid shot	The girl walking up to a building perhaps tapping a pass against the door and then walking in.	Music track	Lots of light very bright during the day	2s	Streets of Bromley / London	Morgan Ipod headphones Some type of bag
38	Straight Cut	Mid shot	Back off from the building where the girl went into of the detective watching her and taking a sip of coffee, putting the cup in the bin and then walking across the road towards the building	Diegetic sound of the busy streets perhaps one or two bass beats	Lots of light very bright during the day	2s	Streets of Bromley / London	Leo & Morgan Briefcase Coffee Cup

           

Location

This alleyway is in soho, off Wardour street. I think this location would look good when at night as the lamps would provide some good lighting for the actors and it will give the urban city feel.

Props & Costume

There wont be a need for many props. The first ones we will need is a desk and a computer set up, so a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse and a computer. We will also need a weapon of some sort for the detective to kill the first villain with. This could either be a baseball bat or a knife or something else that can be used to knock someone out or kill someone. There wont be a need for any other props except maybe a briefcase for the detective to hold the following morning and a CCTV camera, which we could find in an alleyway anyway.
So the props I will need are-
1. Computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard.
2. Baseball bat / Knife.
3. Briefcase.
4. CCTV camera.

The costume I will need is a little more complicated. For the detective I need a trench coat, a suit and a trilby hat. The villain will also have a suit, with very shiny black shoes and a bright yellow tie. The girl will have a plain dress black or grey and a coat which is also black or grey, she will then wear very bright red lipstick.
So the costume i need is -
1. Two pin striped or any other grey / black suits
2. Trench coat
3. Trilby hat
4. Shiny black shoes
5. Bright yellow tie
6. Plain black dress
7. Plain black coat (girl)
8. Bright red lipstick

Narrative

The two minute thriller opening will start with the detective walking along the streets at night, following a girl. He follows her for a while, as she is looking back and knows she's being followed and then into an alleyway of a bar. Here they meet. He grabs her and pushes her against a wall, he asks where "he" is. She smiles and says he's everywhere. She looks up to a video camera and then the camera cuts to the villain in a darkened room on a laptop or computer watching the cctv of this scene. Then cuts back to the alleyway scene where the detective looks up to the cctv camera and back at the girl. He lets go of her and she whispers something in her ear. He walks off and she watches him walk off as she smiles. Cut to the detective running along the streets at night dodging people or things. Cut to the villain on computers typing something in. He is snorting to himself and keeps looking around. Then back to the detective and the camera keeps cutting in between the two of them. Then the detective looks up at the building where the villain supposedly is and walk into the door. Then cut back to the villain typing and looking around, eventually you see the detective in the background. The villain carries on typing and then from a shot through the door frame you see the detective walk slowly towards the villain and raise a weapon of some sort. You then turn to the perspective of the villain and you turn very quickly from the screen of the computer around to the detective and then the detective hits the villain after saying "game over" and the camera blacks out as the title sequence and music comes in. Then some sped up filming of walking through the streets of London as the music and credits roll through and as the music finishes it could pan round the detective (whom we've seen the perspective of walking through London) looking up at a tall building and at the end walking into it. This last part will be shot in the morning, possibly the morning after the death of the villain. This narrative sets up the story. The villain at the beginning was just not a big villain and the detective later in the film will go on to kill the boss of the whole bad guy cooperation. The girl keeps appearing and eventually the detective will save her from the things she got herself mixed up in.

Actors and Characters

Actors

I will have two main actors and one side actor. The two main actors will play the detective and the villain, the side actor will be the girlfriend of the villain who looks for a way out through the detective.

The actor playing the detective will be Leo Dutton. He looks tall and well built much like the detective would be. He has quite a young voice but with not much dialogue it wont matter. He will be good for the part because his look could go with that of a detective if he wears a suit, long coat and hat.

The actor playing the villain will be Joe Hill.
However you don't see his face or hear his voice as he sounds and looks quite young. I will shoot all scenes with him in shadows so you don't see his face fully. I will use a different voice for the villain which will be added later.

The actor playing the girlfriend of the villain will be a girl who has that "sexy" feel, who is a bad girl but she is looking for a way out and you can tell she isn't completely a villain.
At the moment the actor i'm thinking of playing this role is Morgan Macgregor.
As she has really light blonde hair which i think will be powerful with red lipstick as her hair and her lipstick will stick out from the plain dress or costume i will put her in.

Characters

The first main character is the detective. He will wear a suit and a long trench coat much like rorschach from watchmen, he will also wear a hat like a trilby, again like rorschach. He will be a cop but not by law and he doesn't quite abide by the laws, not that you would see much of this in the opening two minutes. He is easily seduced by this girl character who is perhaps the girlfriend of the villain. He wants to help her out of the mess she got herself into, however the villain will try and take her back and stop the detective from stealing her and killing him. The second main character is the villain, he will wear a suit with a bright yellow tie, this colour will be brought out massively when in the editing process. The rest of his costume can be just a plain black or grey suit and shiny black shoes. In most of the scenes he will be sitting at a desk in the dark, as you don't see his face, either drinking or smoking. You see everyone else in the scene but him. He is a villain and what he does in the business could be vague but you can tell he is very rich and powerful, he could own a bar or a club, which would be hard to do as i would have to find someone who owns a bar. He could also be in the gambling business or drug smuggling. The last character i will use is a girl for a side role. The girl will be the girlfriend of the villain and will want to escape via the detective. She will work for the villain and in one of the first shots you see her doing business with the villain. Later on she will meet the detective and he will be easily seduced by her and she will later convince him to get her out of her mess. She will also wear something bright, like a red scarf or bright red lipstick, which will stand out much more after editing, the rest of her outfit can be grey or black.                   

The picture to the left will be the end result i will be looking for, for the girlfriend of the villain. She will be sexy looking and look bad but not completely. The red lipstick will be highlighted in the editing, or red scarf / dress. This will be the same with the yellow tie of the villain and the of the detective