1. Kenza and Luna
Preliminary Task -
Modified
We must create a short video
{around 2 minutes} containing
the skills and technical codes
that we have learnt. The video
should aim to display both our
filming and editing skills.
2. Technical codes to include:
❖ 180 degree rule
❖ Action codes
❖ Consideration of
framing
❖ Consideration of lighting
❖ Consideration of mice-
en-scene
❖ Conversation
❖ Costumes/Gestures/Ex
pressions
❖ Enigma codes
❖ Graphic match
❖ Match on action
❖ Parallel editing
❖ Range of shot
types
❖ Range of
angles
❖ Setting
❖ Shot reverse
shot
❖ Tracking/pannin
g
3. Planning of plot
❖ Summery of storyline:
Jessie is running away from ‘it’ and decides to call her friend Kate from a nearby
phone box. Kate agree’s to meet Jessie at their office to discuss Jessie’s
unorthodox experience, but only worries for her mental health. Jessie claims to feel
‘it’s’ presence their with them, then light flickers and turns to blackout.
❖ Who are the characters?
Friends, Jessie (psychotic?) and Kate
❖ Why are they meeting
For Jessie to explain to Kate what happened
❖ Where are they meeting?
At the phone box near the station
❖ What will they talk about?
They will talk over the phone, and plan to meet at their office, there, they will
converse about the ‘thing’ that was following Jessie
4. Settings
Hampstead Heath:
❖ Along the forest path
❖ In the brush
❖ Out of the brush, into the clearing
Chalk Farm:
❖ Phone box (Outside of chalk farm station)
❖ Along Chalk Farm Road
Office (Haverstock School)
❖ Along the corridor
❖ In one of the rooms
5. Costume
Girl who gets lost: As she will be running in the forest, her outfit will serve as an enigma code
❖ Dress: Party dress - An enigma code as to why she is wearing a dress in a forest
❖ Shoes:Heels - Denotes impracticality and serves as an enigma code
❖ Bag: None - Isolates her from her phone and any other sources that may have be
useful in her predicament.
❖ Jewellery: None/Uncoordinated - Connotes that she is frequently unprepared
Friend of Girl: The audience should be able to identify the girl who gets lost as the main character
❖ Dress: Simple & Coordinated - Connotes that her life is less flamboyant
❖ Shoes: Flats - Practical and convenient, contrasts the main girl
❖ Bag: Small bag - Practical and convenient, contrasts the main girl
❖ Jewellery: Simple and kept to a minimum
6. What will the audience see/hear
• Ambient sound of trees rustling, birds and wind
• Over the shoulder pan of forest
• Calm, low pitched music, piano in minor key
• CU on heels walking through forest - rustling of leaves
• ELS Pan of her walking through forest
• Music crescendos
• Forest shot from behind
• Pace of music increases
• Mid shot from front
• CU of face
• MS pan of her walking into forest clearing
• ECU on eyes
• Walking towards phone box
• Ambient sound of murmuring and traffic
• CU dial
• Tracking of Kate walking “Hello?” etc.
{
Match
on
action
{Parallel
editing
• Cut between characters
• MS friend walking
• Jessie hangs up
• LS Jessie in office Ambient sound heels clicking
• MS tracking go Jessie in corridor
• LS Jessie opens door
• LS Jessie walks through door
• CU of face
• MS of both - establishing shot
• CU Kate “Jessie, what’s wrong?”
• Cut to Jessie “…it’s coming for me”
• Cut to Kate “Have you taken your medicine”
• Lights flicker
• Cut both “It’s HERE”
• Blackout
• Scream
{
Shot
reverse
shot
Match
on
action {
7. Phone conversation
• Kate: “Hello?”
• Cut to Jessie: “It’s coming! I tried to get away from it but it kept coming after me!”
• Sound bridge - fade to tracking Kate: “What are you on about? Where are you?”
• Cut to Jessie: “You have to help me. It’s going to get me”
• Cut to Kate: “I don’t know what you’re on about, look, i’m almost at the office, why
don't you meet me there and we can talk things through.”
• Jessie putting down the receiver: “Okay. Bye.”
8. Phone conversation
• Kate: “Jessie, whats wrong? Have you calmed down now?”
• Jessie: “… it’s coming for me”
• Kate: “Look, there’s nothing after you… have you taken your medicine?”
• Jessie: “It’s coming to get me”
• Kate: “Just try to calm down”
• Jessie: “It’s HERE!” … screams
