Shot List for Preliminary Task

Below is the list of shots which we chose to use in our preliminary task because we thought these would be the most effective. The first shot is fading in from a blackout to a high angle shot of Lyndsey asleep with a book on her face. This cuts to a wide shot of the whole of Lindsey’s body on its side lying down. This establishes with the audience the character which Lyndsey is playing and the personality of this character e.g. clumsy, forgetful etc. This wide shot then cuts to a bird’s eye view tracking shot of Emily walking down a corridor. This bird’s eye tracking shot lasts for approximately 5 seconds before cutting to a stationary shot of Emily walking through the door. This shot cuts to Lyndsey slowly waking up and picking up the papers which have fallen on the floor in the process of her restlessness during her "slumber". At the moment the video is very balanced i.e. there have been two consecutive shots of Lyndsey then two consecutive shots of Emily and now back to two consecutive shots of Lyndsey. This cuts to a medium panning shot of Emily entering the room and asking Lyndsey whether or not she had just been asleep. This panning shot follows Emily into the room and then stops in a wide shot. The wide shot establishes that the characters are opposite and this ensures that the "shot reverse shot" does not confuse the reader. At this point what we were attempting to do was to try to include as many examples of "shot reverse shot" in the conversation. Although at 0:54 we do use a medium shot which has both the characters and this, again, establishes who is on which side just not to confuse the reader. At 0:58 seconds there is a close up on the screen of a phone which clearly displays the time changing from 12:00 to 12:01. This cuts to a tracking shot of Lyndsey running out. This then cuts to a stationary shot of Lyndsey running down the hall. As she runs away because the camera stays still she slowly disappears smaller and smaller.