Week 7 - In depth planning.

This week I started planning my individual shots of the opening scene with shot angles and sounds.


The film opens with a long shot of a park/grassy area; a group of friends are talking. In the group is Alex, a male psychology student who aspires to be a psychologist and Ruby a female biology student who wants to drop out of college.
In the group is also Jack who is Alex’s best friend, Lisa who is Ruby’s best friend and several other members of their friendship group. Lisa asks Ruby what time the party she is having that night starts which Ruby answers, Jack says he may be late, as he has to cook for his little brother. Ruby asks Alex if he wants to come round earlier to help get ready for the party, Alex then takes Ruby away from the group and declines her invitation as he needs to catch up on coursework, they then argue about priorities, Alex’s being his college work and Ruby’s being to have fun. Ruby makes him choose between college and herself to which Alex chooses college and breaks up with Ruby storming off angrily; Jack follows him after exchanging worried looks with the group.
The next scene is Ruby meeting with the group to decide what to do with Alex as she doesn’t want to lose him, they decide that she should meet up with him and apologise, but Alex doesn’t answer her calls. Jack then offers to text Alex and ask him to meet up to talk to which Alex agrees, however Alex is unaware that he will be meeting with Ruby and not Jack.
They walk through the woods to the old tree; Alex arrives first and checks his phone to see that he is on time. The narrative switches to a creature running through the woods, it is behind Ruby and following her, the narrative switches back to Ruby as she is walking through the woods unaware of the creature following her, the creature is closing in on her Ruby hears it and is attacked by the creature.
Alex hears a scream in the woods and goes to investigate where he sees Ruby’s corpse on the ground, there is an extreme close-up of Ruby’s eye as it opens.


Shot descriptions:

Opening shot – Long shot of a park/grassy area showing the group of friends talking, this leads into a mid shot of the group talking about college. I will add in diegetic sounds of birds and people playing in the park.
There is then a two-shot/over-the-shoulder shot at Lisa asks Ruby what time the party starts, this leads into a two-shot of Jack and Ruby. Next there will be an over-the-shoulder-shot of Alex and Ruby when Alex tells Ruby that he won’t be going to the party, this shot will show Ruby’s reaction to the news, it will also show the rest of the group in the background listening in on the conversation. I will add in diegetic sounds of birds again here.
As Alex and Ruby argue there will be a mid shot and close of up Ruby as Alex chooses college work over her, from the background Jack runs into the foreground and past the camera as he follows Alex off the screen. This then blends into an over-the-shoulder-shot of a group member watching them walk off. There will be a combination of diegetic birds and non-diegetic music here, possible a steady drum beat.
The next scene will show clouds’ moving through the sky rapidly to show that time has moved on from the previous scene, there will then be a mid-shot of the group of friends talking about Alex, which will turn into a close up of Ruby as she gets the idea of tricking him into meeting her. This shot will have non-diegetic sounds of music similar to the last shot.
There will then be a shot of Alex in his room doing college work, this will be a low angle close-up and when he receives the text message there will be an over-the-shoulder shot of his phone.
There will then be a long shot of Alex walking up to the tree where he meets with Ruby. This will turn into a mid shot of Ruby walking through the woods towards Alex, when the creature appears there will be a high angle shot with a view from the creatures’ eyes (I will edit this after filming) this will be following Ruby until she turns around and see’s the creature and screams. There will then be a close up of Alex as he hears the screams, there will be a mid-shot as Alex runs through the woods to find her body. There will be a high angle extreme-close-up of Ruby’s eye as it opens. I will add in diegetic and non-diegetic sounds again in this shot, the music will be eerie to fit the horror of this scene.


I will now begin working on the script and shooting script.