For the beginning of the film, the girl will wake up either in Keyton’s house or mine. The rest of the film will be at Wellington High School and then end the short film in a bathroom at someone’s home. My group and I plan on filming between December 23rd and January 5th.
Shot: 1
Camera Techniques – Slow move back using steadicam
Editing – Action Match
Sound – Mom yelling in distance – sound perspective
Mise en scene – In room, sees alarm showing late time
Description of Shot – Girl waking up late
Explanation of choices – Allows viewer to see surrounding
Shot 2:
Camera Techniques – Steadicam following her around
Editing – Long shot
Sound – Shuffling around room
Mise en scene – Clothing put on is not well put-together
Description of Shot – Allows to see frantic feeling
Explanation of choices – The steadicam makes it a little shaky causing a panic, rushed feeling
Shot 3:
Camera Techniques – Over the shoulder
Editing – Elipsis of time
Sound – Low music playing, driving car quickly
Mise en scene – In car, late time is in car
Description of Shot – Gets in car to start driving
Explanation of choices – Shows the character, rushing while driving, when the time is shown
Shot 4:
Camera Techniques – Establishing shot
Editing –
Sound – Bell ringing
Mise en scene – School sign
Description of Shot – Shot of school
Explanation of choices – Shows a new location
Shot 5 :
Camera Techniques – High Angle
Editing –
Sound –
Mise en scene – School Supplies
Description of Shot – Drops stuff around her
Explanation of choices – High angle makes her look powerless
Shot 6 :
Camera Techniques – Master shot
Editing –
Sound – No sound
Mise en scene – Keyton looks like a mess physically and the rest of the class looks prepared
Description of Shot – Walks in late and interrupts teacher’s teaching
Explanation of choices – Shows awkward silence and all of the attention on Keyton
Shot 7:
Camera Techniques – Over the shoulder, slow zoom
Editing – Shot reverse shot
Sound – low sad instrumental music
Mise en scene – Bad test grade on paper. Desk and chair
Description of Shot – Over the Shoulder of her paper. Slow zoom on grade.
Explanation of choices – Shows reaction of Keyton getting bad grade. She cares about her grade and this usually never happens.
Shot 8:
Camera Techniques – POV
Editing –
Sound – low sad instrumental music
Mise en scene – Teacher is dressed formally, professionally, sheet of paper faced upside down
Description of Shot – Teacher is placing test upside down since it’s so bad.
Explanation of choices – Puts you in the girl’s place and reminds audience of the feeling of getting a bad grade.
Shot 9:
Camera Techniques – High Angle
Editing –
Sound –
Mise en scene – School clothes, messy hair
Description of Shot – high angle of her sitting down sad
Explanation of choices – Makes her look vulnerable
Shot 10:
Camera Techniques – Wide shot
Editing –
Sound – Sting
Mise en scene – school clothing
Description of Shot – Bell rings, she leaves the class
Explanation of choices – Bell ring to make it like school. Wide shot showing students.
Shot 11:
Camera Techniques – Medium close up
Editing –
Sound –
Mise en scene – messy hair
Description of Shot – Medium close up of her walking
Explanation of choices – Shows her sad and vulnerable
Shot 12:
Camera Techniques – over the shoulder
Editing – Slow motion
Sound –
Mise en scene – Messy hair
Description of Shot – Shows kids bullying her, laughing at her
Explanation of choices – Uses slow motion to emphasize emotions
Shot 13:
Camera Techniques – close up, slow motion
Editing – cut
Sound – none
Mise en scene –
Description of Shot – Has a sad face
Explanation of choices – Shows how upset she is
Shot 14:
Camera Techniques – Close up, slow motion
Editing – cut
Sound – yelling rude remarks
Mise en scene –
Description of Shot – Saying rude things about Keyton
Explanation of choices – Allows to show how he is yelling and laughing
Shot 15:
Camera Techniques – two shot, slow motion
Editing – cut
Sound – dialogue
Mise en scene – pretty, school clothes, hallway
Description of Shot – talking bad about the girl
Explanation of choices – They look better and make keyton look inferior
Shot 16:
Camera Techniques – Dolly – fast
Editing – cut
Sound –
Mise en scene – hallway
Description of Shot – running to bathroom
Explanation of choices – can follow her into bathroom running
Shot 17:
Camera Techniques – POV
Editing –
Sound – low instrumental music
Mise en scene – pencil on bathroom stall
Description of Shot – Shows anonymous mean statement in a public area
Explanation of choices – the point of view puts the viewer in Keyton’s position and expresses how awful she must feel
Shot 18:
Camera Techniques – close up
Editing – none
Sound – low instrumental music
Mise en scene – tears, messy hair
Description of Shot – Keyton is in tears
Explanation of choices – Shows how upset she is after looking at the rude insult
Shot 19:
Camera Techniques – close up
Editing – graphic match
Sound – low instrumental in back
Mise en scene – makeup smearing
Description of Shot – This shot forwarded to when she cries in her bathroom at home, showing she is still upset in the future
Explanation of choices – Keyton left the school to cry, but we didn’t have time to show her going home, so we cut from the school bathroom to her home bathroom
Shot 20:
Camera Techniques – POV
Editing –
Sound – low instrumental music
Mise en scene – Pill bottle
Description of Shot – Looks from pills to family portrait
Explanation of choices – Goes from sad and suicidal to happy family portrait
Shot 21:
Camera Techniques – Tilt down
Editing – cut
Sound – sad score
Mise en scene – Picture, wall
Description of Shot – sliding down
Explanation of choices – shows that the picture convinced her to not overdose
Shot 22:
Camera Techniques – close up/ camera on ground/ framing of just feet
Editing – cut
Sound – sad music
Mise en scene – pills in bathroom
Description of Shot – shot shows she dropped the pills
Explanation of choices – used in research given
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