Scene outline- Bomb in a room:
To begin
with we have a man who is tied to a water pipe (the ones you see in a factory)
at the beginning of our shoot he is unconscious and he gradually wakes up and
comes around, as he does this the camera shows us the bomb which is tied around
the man’s body with a timer on it that is counting down from two minutes.
Gradually he becomes more and more aware of his surroundings with this the
ticking of the bomb increases in volume.
We then hear the background noise of
the factory for instance machinery and muffled foreign voices soon after this
comes the gunshots from above him. The man’s mouth is taped shut so that when
he tries to scream for help we just hear muffled breathing. The camera pans
around the room showing us oil drums, dirt and old pots of paint everywhere. To
end with a police officer is banging on the door oblivious to what is on the
other side and the man again tries to shout and warn him but he slams open the
door and we see him storm in then the camera blacks out leaving the audience
unaware as to if the bomb has gone off or not.
Pre-production paper work:
To begin
with we have a man who is tied to a water pipe (the ones you see in a factory)
at the beginning of our shoot he is unconscious and he gradually wakes up and
comes around, as he does this the camera shows us the bomb which is tied around
the man’s body with a timer on it that is counting down from two minutes.
Gradually he becomes more and more aware of his surroundings with this the
ticking of the bomb increases in volume.
We then hear the background noise of
the factory for instance machinery and muffled foreign voices soon after this
comes the gunshots from above him. The man’s mouth is taped shut so that when
he tries to scream for help we just hear muffled breathing. The camera pans
around the room showing us oil drums, dirt and old pots of paint everywhere. To
end with a police officer is banging on the door oblivious to what is on the
other side and the man again tries to shout and warn him but he slams open the
door and we see him storm in then the camera blacks out leaving the audience
unaware as to if the bomb has gone off or not.
Pre-production paper work:
The location
of our actual thriller opening sequence will be the basement of a factory, and
this is the setting of our entire scene. We don’t have an actual location like
this to film our test shoot in, but this will be easy to work around because
the entire scene just uses a single room. So, we decided to film our test shoot
in the common room.
There
are only two characters visible on-screen in our opening sequence, and the
second only appears in the end briefly. This makes it simpler for us to just
use two people from our four-person group as actors, and we still have all the
characters that are focused on in our scene.
As it
will be difficult to show that the main character has a bomb chained to him in
our test shoot, we will instead try to convey this through a replacement prop
such as a phone. However, this opening sequence is still relatively simple to
film throughout, as most of the action happens off-screen. It also uses minimal
props and only one room as the setting, so none of the shoots should be too
difficult.
The time
bomb is the prop most focused on in our opening sequence, but we cannot use a
realistic prop for our test shoot. We will substitute this with a VHS cassette
and use an iPhone as the timer. We plan to have chains attaching the time bomb
to the main character, and we will imitate this by using a scarf. The oil drums
and barrels we will show in our opening sequence can be replaced by wastepaper
bins.
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