Story Board

Script Abbriviations

 

SCRIPT ABBREVIATIONS

ELS extreme long shot
MLS medium long shot
LS long shot
MS medium shot
MCU medium close-up
CU close-up
ECU extreme close-up
OS over-the-shoulder shot
2-S or 3-S two-shot or three-shot
POV point of view shot
ZI or ZO zoom in or zoom out
INT interior
EXT exterior
SOT or SOF sound on tape or sound on film
BG background
SFX or F/X special effects (can be either sound or visual)
VO voice-over
OSV off-screen voice
DIS dissolve

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

It’s important to do a risk assessment because it means we can highlight and avoid possible risks whilst shooting.

One of the main risks whilst shooting our opening to our movie was that we used a knife. Whilst using the knife we made sure that we were being supervised by a responsible adult to make sure that we were using the knife safely.

We also ensured we knew where the first aiders were on the site and our teachers were able to supervise us. The first aiders that were on hand were Mrs trail and Mrs Cron and were only downstairs in the building.

9 Shot Analysis

Narative Theory Information: Key Figures

Vladimir Propp

was a soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.Vladimir Propp broke up fairy tales into sections. Through these sections he was able to define the tale into a series of sequences that occurred within the Russian fairytale.

Vladimir Propp suggested that every narrative has eight different character types, these character types were:

The Villain - fights the hero in some way.

The Dispatcher - makes the villain's evil known and sends the hero off.

The Helper - helps the hero in their quest.

The Princess - acts as a prize for the hero.

Princess' Father - gives task to hero then gives the hero the reward.

The Donor - prepares the hero.

The Hero - reacts to the donor and gets the prize.

False Hero - tries to take credit for the hero's actions.

Claude Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss was a french anthropologist and ethnologist who studied hundreds of myths and legends all around the world, from that he found out that we as humans make sense of the world, people and events by seeing and using binary opposites.

Some examples of binary opposites:

Good v Evil

Black v White

Boy v Girl

Peace v War

Civilized v Savage

Democracy v Dictatorship

Equilibrium Theory

The equilibrium is a theory that the story is about a normal state being disrupted but then resolved to reinstate normality.

Narrative Theories

this is the most common and simple layout for a narrative theory. Starting from the Beginning/Exposition, then the protagonist is met with some sort of Complication, which then move on to a Climax/Crisis, which is finalised by the main character Resolving the problem.

this is the layout to the Will Smith film; I, Robot.

Beginning/Exposition: The 3 Laws of Robotics come onto scene with a watery/bubbling dark background. suddenly a young girl in seen screaming from inside a car which has been plunged into a lake. then somebody is seen climbing across the debris of metal and car carcass' and smashes the window of the car of Del Spooner's Car (Will Smith) leaving the young girl to disappear into the dark waters. the scene changes to see Spooner wake up in bed sweating from the horrible nightmare he just had of his past.

 

Complication: Del Spooner is led on a case (as he is a Detective of the CPD in the year 2035) of the death of a character in the film (Dr. Alfred Lanning) which Spooner has some sort of Friendship with but this unknown until later in the story. Upon investigating the strange and unexplainable death of Lanning,  Del finds a Robot hiding in the crime scene. Sonny , appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Spooner now needs to work out the riddles that Lanning has left him in his Hologram and to also figure out how Sonny managed to violate the Laws of robotics even though the laws are hardwired into every existing robot created by USR. Sonny tells Spooner that her has dreams, which is theoretically impossible as dreams cannot exist within the programmed mind of the artifical beings. He draws a picture to show the repeating image in his head and explains it to the Detective what is shown. it shows a picture of a bridge which was one Michigan Lake, with thousands of robots gathered round with the silohette of a Jesus-type figure stood on the hill while they all look up to him. Sonny tells Del that he's sure that Spooner is the man on the hill; which shocks Spooner as he has a raw hatred for robots since the crash at the beginning.

Climax/Crisis: all of a sudden every single one of the new NS-5 robots created by USR (Except Sonny) start to overtake the city of Chicago with red lights beaming from their translucent torso's. They are also programed with a secondary plan, to eliminate Detective Spooner; as he knows to much and has almost figured out who the main culpret is. 

Alfred Hitchcock Research