Shot list table

This is a table of the shots I will be using.

Location	Shot	Camera movement	Characters	Length of shot	Sound
Outside school building	Establishing shot	Zoom into school doors	N/A	15 secs	Clicking of heels
Inside school- hallway	Long shot	Pan around characters in scene	Dead man	10 secs	Clicking of heels
Along the hallway following a trail	N/A	Tracking shot following a trail	N/A	25 secs	Clicking of heels and increasing volume of whistle
Another hallway	Close up shot	Tracking close up of woman’s feet	Killer	20 secs	Increasing volume of whistle
“ ”	Mid shot	N/A	Shot of cleaner	5 secs	Maximum volume of whistle and noise of man being knocked over
Board with images of teachers	Close ups of different images	Zoom into images	No specific actors	20 secs	Whistle becomes slower
Head teacher image	Close up	N/A	N/A	5 secs	Whistle slows down and fades out

Shot list

Shot list:

·        Establishing shot of outside school building.

·        Zoom into building’s doors.

·        Pan around man.

·        Tracking shot following trail of blood.

·        Two shot of woman and the cleaner.

·        Tracking shot (still following the woman).

·        Arc shot followed by close up shot of image on the pin board.

Audiences of my film

From my film I hope that the audience will feel a sense of the unknown but also a sense of self-accomplishment in that they will have figured out themselves which characters conform to each part of Propp’s character theory and that they will have fulfilled the need for self esteem. The fact that the characters role of men and women have been reversed will make male audiences consider their stereotypes of physical strength against the stereotypes of women’s strength of mentality. Conversely it will make female audiences question their perceptions of male strength and that mentally, they also may not be as strong as women might think. I will also be providing a strong female role model which one could argue, is uncharacteristic of most thriller movies. A typical convention of the thriller genre is that there are a wide variety of camera angles, used to convey narrative and atmosphere within the scene. However, my film will contrast this convention in that we have chosen to use more camera movements than camera angles as it follows the character through her ‘journey’ through the school giving the narrative a sense of momentum and movement. This will also allow the audience to discover the setting of the film and understand why the film has been named ‘MI Sixth form’.

Certificate of my film

We have decided to use a 12A certificate rating in our video so as to attract a wider target audience and so that there is mystery as to what has actually gone on in the video. We will conform to this in that no violence is directly seen however it is implicated by the props in the film.

The name of my film

We have chosen to name our film ‘MI Sixth form’. This links in the idea that the our film is about a school full of undercover agents and set in a school. It also links in with our target audience in that the target audience is15 year-olds and older which is around the age that people in Sixth forms/colleges are in. It might not, however, attract an audience much older than this. It does not give away the idea that the film includes violence, thus taking the audience by surprise when the implication of violence and death is put into the movie. Other names that were discussed in the group are 'MI 6-teen' however we did not feel that this links to the idea that the film was set in a school and that 'MI Sixth form' made it clearer.

Sound in my clip

Sound in my clip:

My group plan to use diegetic at the beginning of the scene with the sound of a woman’s clicking high heels in the background of a scene of the doors to the school. This will immediately indicate to the audience the gender of the character and signify the contrasting view of the woman being the killer. There will also be a gradual sound of a woman whistling a nursery rhyme- as the scene gets closer and closer to the woman, the whistling will get louder and will fade into a non-diegetic sound of a nursery rhyme which will be placed over the moving image. There may be noise from when the cleaner gets knocked over e.g. if he knocks over a bucket or other equipment in the scene. I hope that this will leave my audience aprehensive to what actually is going to come from this. It is later revealed that the woman is powerful however equally manipulative by the man whom she is working for.

Camera movements

Tracking shot- a forwards or backwards movement of the camera usually on a dolly/ track & dolly.

Crab shot- a sideways movement of the camera normally used to follow the movement of a character and keep up the pace with the scene.

Tilt- tilting the camera on an axis normally representing the power of each character. I.e. looking down shows the character has more power, looking up shows the character has less power.

Zoom- adjustment of the focus of the camera allowing the shot to focus on one part of the scene or character.

Arc shot- movement of around the scene revealing the facial expression of the characters in the scene (normally outside of the scene looking in).

Panning shot- movement of around the scene revealing the facial expression of the characters in the scene (normally inside of the scene looking out).

Crane shot- the camera is attached to a crane allowing the camera to see farther and look down at places that the camera man would not be able to. Also it allows more artistic movements of the camera i.e. a wave.