Script for film opening

Notes:

 Italic writing is voices

• * indicates sound
• inside brackets indicates text on screen (smoke effect) (clearer text)

Script:

Scene 1:

(Outside from persons view, unfocused)

*Heavy Breathing

Protagonist looks down at hand: noticing symbols on it before falling unconscious.

• Fades to black

*Theme music starts

1^st set of credits:

(Director : sachin Ishmael)

• Voice emitting throughout darkness: “Wake up, tell me now!”

• Protagonist opens eyes and those closes again – falling in and out of reality.

2^nd set of credits:

*Heavy breathing starts up again

(Produced by)

“Im sorry, I don’t know what you want”

(Nathan Larkin)

“Just try and remember!”

  Scene 2:

• Dark room comes into focus.
• Protagonist registers images of artefact

Antagonist: “Where did you find the artefact?”

• Protagonist once again looks at symbol covered hand
• Antagonist slams hand down on table

Antagonist: “Tell me! Now!”

Protagonist: I cant remember everything, everything is a blur”

Antagonist: “TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!”

3^rd set of credits:

(sound editor)

(Robert Kerr)

Protagonist: “the last thing I remember was”

• Screen changes to artefact and protagonist reaching out for it.

4^th set of credits:

(Starring)

*heavy breathing starts again

(Robert Kerr)

Antagonist: “Damn it! Just tell me!”

(Annas Elfarsi)

Scene 3:

• Looking from antagonists eyes onto sub-unconscious protagonist

 Protagonist: “Look please, I really don’t know what you want”

• Antagonist slaps protagonist

Antagonist: “Just try and remember!”

*heavy breathing as theme music starts to fade

5^th set of credits:

(Ignotus)

(Ignotus)

2nd draft of our opening

This is the second draft of our opening, some issues we adressed was the credits of the opening, making them easire to read, we also changed the music, re-arraged the clips and and tried to voice over the sound.

1st draft of the film that we uploaded to youtube

This was the first draft of our opening, obviously there was some changes neede but on the whole for a first draft we were quite happy with the results.

Survey results

1) what is your favorite genre of film:
horror : 2
comedy: 3
thriller: 3
action: 2

2) Would you like the theme tune to play during the opening credits?
100% : Yes
0%: No

3) Would you like the opening credits to play first and then the movie start or have the movie playing whilst the opening credits are popping up?

Credits First		40.0%	4
Movie and credits together		60.0%	6

credits first : 4
movie and credits together : 6

4) Would you prefer the credits to follow the shape and colour scheme of the movie?
yes: 8
no: 2

5)  Do you like when the opening shot is an Aerial shot of the city/town/setting?
yes: 6
no:4

6) Would you prefer the introduction to the movie to keep you guessing?
yes: 8
no: 2


7) Would you prefer diegetic or non-diegetic sounds for the opening scene?
digetic: 1
non digetic: 4
both: 5


8) Do you like long opening scenes or when events progress quickly?
lond opening scenes: 4
progressing quickly: 6


9) Do you like it when text pops up to show the name of the place and time of day?
yes: 9
no: 1

10) do you prefer the credits to simply pop up ir perform some sort of animation as it appears on the screen?
simply appear: 1
animated credits: 9

Survey

1.        What is your favourite genre?

..................................................

2.        Would you like the theme tune to play in the opening credits?

Yes          No

3.        Would you like the opening credits to play first and then the movie start or have the movie playing whilst the opening credits are popping up?

Credits first          

Movie and credits together

4.        Do you prefer the credits follow the colour scheme and shape of the movie?

Yes          No

5.        Do you like when the opening shot is an Aerial shot of the city/town/setting?

Yes          No

6.        Would you prefer the introduction to the movie keeps you guessing?

Yes          No

7.        Do you preferdiegetic or non-diegetic sounds for the opening scene?

Non-diegetic

Diegetic

Both

8.        Do you like long opening scenes or when events progress quickly?

Long opening scenes

Progressing quickly

9.        Do you like it when text pops up to show the name of the place and time of day?

Yes          No

10.     Do you prefer the credits to simply pop up or perform some sort on animation as it appears on the screen?

Simply appear

Treatment

Film Opening Treatment

The film will show how a group of archeologists find an artifact that they have been researching for decades and have gone to look for it after tracking down the location and attempting to take it and study it further. The protagonist is part of the group of archeologists and he is with them as they discover the exact whereabouts of the artifact. The protagonist reaches out to take it but then wakes up tied to a chair with blood stains on his clothes and a bright light on his face. He is being interrogated by another man but he can’t see his face, only his shoes. He is also being forced to look at pictures of the artifact and being made to remember the events leading up to the discovery of the artifact. The majority of the film will be shown through the flashbacks the protagonist has in order to retrace his steps and find out the mysterious power the artifact holds.

Production scheduling

Production scheduling:

We met every Monday, Thursday and Friday for an hour and a half during our media lessons.

That will total to at least four and a half hours of planning, filming and editing.

We also organised to have skype meeting for one hour every Friday evening adding the time to five and a half hours a week, and also we would have production meetings every Thursday during our study period for fifty minutes.

In total that meant that we was working on our coursework for six hours and twenty minutes every week.

We also later on made a video of how we would organise our production meetings, so here it is:

Mood board

Ideas For The Artefact

We discussed different shapes of what the artefact would look like and if there would be any writing on it or symbols. We would like it to be placed on a type of plaque of some sort to show it’s special.

 

Ideas For Costume

 

Ideas For Locations

We were thinking of having a white room to make the protagonist look crazy after coming into contact with the artefact or just a normal interrogation with a dark room and a bright light shining onto the protagonist’s face.




Mood board video