Design Practice 2: Film: Development (Editor Role) (Week 5)

Hey, so we got some more footage for our project on Friday and plan to film the remaining scenes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, I am quite surprised that we have got so little filming done at this stage, makes you wonder what we were doing the first three weeks of the assignment. I have imported and begun editing the footage I have access to at the moment, I am restricted to what I can actually produce at this time as everything is very fragmented and we have a lot of missing scenes.

Although the majority of shots are alright there are some issues that need correcting, for starters we need a lot more variety in terms of camera than just 20 second long shots to piece together a coherent story, the audience will quickly become bored and not understand what is going on. I am struggling to piece together clips without using transitions constantly to show a lapse in time, my solution is to write a long list of different angles and shots to show to my camerawomen so I can start to piece together clips coherently and at the same time create the tense fast-paced atmosphere we had planned for.

REMEMBER TO THINK ABOUT HOW SHOTS ARE GOING TO FLOW INTO ONE ANOTHER, GET LOTS OF DIFFERENT ANGLES FOR ME TO WORK WITH.

Camera Additions:

1. ARBORETUM TUNNEL. NIGHT

- Extreme closeup of Chris looking scared (heavy breathing with footstep noise over)
- Shot of someone walking, looking down at feet
- Back to closeup of Chris panicked (footstep noise over)
- Closeup of feet on ground level
- Mid shot of Chris running off screen
- Continued shot of someone walking looking down at feet
- Chris running from off screen down an alley
- Shot of some running looking down
- Closeups of Chris's face while running
- P.O.V from behind Chris 
- Over the shoulder shot of Chris looking behind him
- A different shot of Chris running around a corner
(All scenes shot on Tuesday were in the day time???)

2 INT. OFFICE WITH BLINDS. DAY
- Close up of two fingers opening blind
- Close up of being blinded, hand in front of eyes then moving off
- Close up of Chris hesitating what to do
- Shot of hand moving in to get briefcase 
(We forgot to film him with the briefcase at the blinds) 
(Not filmed: Nods to receptionist, hesitates, slows down then nods to security.  The revolving door exit seems very far away)
- Shot of Chris walking off screen
- P.O.V from behind Chris walking through reception
- Long shot of walking through reception 
- Close up of receptionist
- Close up of Chris Nodding
- Mid shot of Chris walking past receptionist 
- Close up Of Security 
- Close up of Chris Nodding
- Mid shot of Chris walking past security
- Long shot of walking to exit 
- P.O.V of exit looking far away 

3 INT. OFFICE. NIGHT

DISCOVERY SCENE  
- Cutaway, change of angle closeup
- Another change of angle for close up shock face, this time he moves off camera
MOVING PHOTOS
- Closeup of pictures, hand moving in to take them off wall
- Re film the ripping photos of wall (To dark to work with)
SCARED
- Close up of putting photos in bag 
- Close up of door handle being opened
- (Possible exterior shot of security talking with hand on  

 handle)
- Shot of door from inside being slightly opened while security talk
- Different angle of door from inside
- (Possible exterior shot of security walking away of camera)
- Close up Shot of relieved Chris 

4  INT. FRONT ROOM. DAY
- Possible establishment shot of Chris sitting at desk

5 EXT. STREET. DAY

(Not filmed: Chris approaches a post box, package in hand)
- Long shot of Chris walking towards
- Cutaways to over the shoulder 
- Closeup for expression
- Closeup of hand placing letter in box
- Shot of Chris walking off screen

6  INT. BEDROOM. DAY

(Not filmed: Chris removes the negatives from a briefcase)

- An establishment shot of Chris in the bedroom first

- Mid shot of Chris going into the bag 

- Possible P.O.V from inside the bag

- Mid shot of Chris looking at photos in hand

- Closeup of photos

- Closeup of Chris's expression

7 INT. OFFICE. DAY

- Possible Shot of Chris poketing the key

8 EXT. NEWSAGENTS. DAY

(Refilm outside?: Chris scans the Daily Telegraph for his article. Nothing)

- Long Shot walking to get paper

- Mid Shot of him picking/buying paper

- Close up of reading from front
- Midshot exiting the newsagents

- Close up of reading from back 

- Close up of putting paper down to reveal face

- Long shot of throwing paper away 

9 EXT. ALLEYWAY. NIGHT

(Not Filmed: Chris rushes around a corner and jumps recklessly over the stair well.   As he runs he repeatedly looks over his shoulder for his pursuers. Running he drops the briefcase.  Rushing back to the retrieve it, he abandons that idea and continues his escape)

- Camera other side of corner to see him rush round

- Closeup move back of facial expression

- Camera behind till jump

- Camera other side of jump looking up from ground 

- Alteration between closeups of Chris looking over his shoulder

with over the shoulder shots from in front and P.O.V shots from behind

- Long shot of him dropping briefcase while running 

- Camera on floor near briefcase, see Chris come to pick up but then stumble away 

- Final long shot of him running away

10 INT. FLAT. DAY

- Different angle of keys on floor
- Closeup of a paper that says 'Goverment plans expose'
- Different angle and close up of the phone ringing
- Varied pans/long-shots of empty flat

- (Don't understand the keys?)