Wednesday 1 October 2014

PLANNING: Possible Shot Ideas

I've been thinking about what shots to include in my trailer and I have come up with a few ideas:

The Devil 
The Devil's face won't be shown until right at the end, however I am debating as to whether or not reveal the Devil's identity in the trailer or not or wait until the film would be supposedly released.  It will be a mid shot of him saying "Kill each other-" before a close up of him saying "-or I'll kill you" with him giving an evil smile at the camera. If I decide to keep the bag on his head and not reveal his identity, there will be a hole cut through the bag to show his mouth and eyes so the smile will still be clear. Throughout the trailer, he will be talking over the top of it. The bag on the head idea came to me from The Human Centipede 2 teaser trailer, where the new villain was sat in a multi-story car-park with a paper bag over his head, whilst the director was talking about him.

Emergency News Broadcast
There will be two or three shots of people watching the TV after realising that millions of people have gone missing from the earth. They will be watching a video of something with a bag over it's head talking about what has happened, why it has happened and what is going to happen now. The thing with the bag over its head will then reveal itself right at the end, or not depending on what will have the best tense atmosphere.

Football 
I have this idea, which i'm not sure will work but if it did I think it would look amazing. There would be a group of boys playing football, and then there is a shot of the goal-keeper, panning to the left to watch the footballers kicking the ball around, one boy takes a shot, the camera follows the ball back to the goal-keeper who is now missing. It would be one take, and whilst the camera was on the footballers, the goal-keeper would have to run out of shot of the camera to make it look like he had gone missing. This would represent the christian believers being taken by God. It would then cut to a mid-shot of two or three boys looking confused and then a close up of someone looking confused.

Lust
For this shot, I will have a female actor crawling from the bottom of the bed, up to the top of the bed, as if she were seducing someone. She'll be wearing a red dress with black heels and have a lot of cleavage on show. It will be a POV shot to show that she is trying to seduce someone, before cutting to a shot of the same female tied to a tree with a man stood a few feet away from her, with a gun pointed to her head. It will be dark and there will be a light shining behind them so it will just be silhouettes.

The Family
This shot will feature a mid shot on a diagonal, of a family watching the news broadcast with sheer terror on their face. There will be a dad, daughter and a dog. This will be a shot to one of the mediums that people are watching the news broadcast.

The Over The Shoulder Shot
I will use this shot to show someone watching the news broadcast on their phone.

"Men, Women, Children and Animals"
In part of the Devil's monologue, he will say "all men, women, children and animals will die". As he says "men", it will cut to a shot of a man smoking looking to the side. As he says "women", it'll cut to a woman dancing, specifically doing a split leap. As he says "children", it'll cut to two kids running around chasing each other. As he says animals, it'll cut to a dog running towards the camera.

The Swimming Pool
This shot will consist of a person swimming in a swimming pool and then having a shot of them looking around confused, as if they have heard something. They will then go underwater, look around before being yanked down by a person out of shot.

Car 
For this shot, I am going to film one of my actors whilst she is driving. I will be in the passenger seat and will be filming her as she looks around to see if anyone is following her.

Laptop
Here, I will shoot someone sat using their laptop, before cutting to a shot of what they're watching (the news broadcast) as a POV.

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