Important Frames

As a group, we went out during a lesson and took initial test shots of important frames that we had brainstormed and thought about drafting into our final opening. This helped as we could picture what it would actually look like and allow us to decide if we like the idea of it.

Our first shot would just be a plain black screen, with ambient sound of a children's playground overlapping it.

The second image that would be seen on the screen would be straight cut from the black screen previously there. The picture below shows how we would have the protagonist sitting on the side of a park bench, both in the right third of the screen. This would introduce her immediately and show a sense of isolation or a teenage stereotype of sitting away from other people in an obviously busy park.

The third important frame consists of the same as position of the female actor however with some running past. At the time, we could only do this with someone in the group but in the final opening we plan for this to be a young child, to add sudden action and show the comedic side of the genre.

The fourth frame that we considered important is an extreme close up shot of the protagonists eye as we plan to have a moving zoom shot into it after the child has run past, this would be continuous from the first shot up until this moment. We then want to change the location before zooming out again, as can be viewed in the fifth test shot.



The image above is what we plan the next frame to be. After zooming out of the extreme close up of the eye, we would move the camera further away as a mid or long shot, dependent on the space we would have. This would be shot in the location of an alleyway as we imagined it to be outside of a club or a party, which we would make obvious by use of sound and colour with loud diegetic music and a faint array of colours hitting the brick wall, where she would be alone once again in an obviously busy place.

The next image we took is in the same alley as the previous image however during a pan shot. This would also be continuous from the last shot as it would just revolve and move around the protagonist. The pan would then continue around her as we would have the female actor step forward and look around a bit in order for us to do a full 360 shot around her. The camera would then be directed back into her eye once again and the location would also change, whilst still in the extreme close up.

 After the extreme close up of her eye, the camera would zoom out to an aerial shot above the protagonist lying on her bed faintly shaking to show a drug addiction.