Shot list

Shot	Location	Shot Description	Framing	Action	Dialogue	Actor	Props	Notes
A	Along the corridor by F11	Jess is walking along a corridor, away from the camera	Long shot			Jess
B	Along the corridor by F11	Jess feet walking along the corridor to the right	Close up			Jess		Camera need to be on the right side
C	Outside F11	Jess walk into shot; turn right to face the camera, the camera tracks up wards on to her face.	Close up	Camera tracks upward from the feet to face.		Jess	Ring on finger.
D	Outside F11	Freeze on Jess face, with her looking nervous, so the title ‘The Exchange’ can appear on screen	Close up			Jess		Shot must be in black and white
E	Door of F11	Jess reaches for the  door handle with her left hand and pulls it down	A high angle close up			Jess	Ring on finger
F	In F11	Jess enters thought door  and door shut behind	Mid shot			Jess		The door handle must be down when shot starts
G	In F11	The shot is over the shoulder of a character we a yet to meet, we see Jess walk across the room and sit down a on a chair.	Over the shoulder mid shot			Jess and Mia		Shot need to be taken over the left shoulder

H	In F11	Close up of Mia’s lips, where she as ask Jess a question	Extreme close up		“Have you got the money?”	Mia	Red lipstick
I	In F11	Jess replies and get out the money, as the camera pans from Mia’s left shoulder to Mia’s right shoulder.	Over the shoulder Mid shot	Camera pans from left to right	“Yes”	Jess and Mia	50p	Shots need to start on Mia’s Left shoulder
J	In F11	Jess moves her hand across the table, where Mia’s hand meets it and she takes the money.	Bird’s eye view shot			Jess and Mia	50p and rings	The ring must be on Jess’s left hand Mia’s right hand
K	In F11	Mia looks at her hand and relives the 50p	High angle shot			Mia	50p and ring	Shot must be taken from over Mia’s right shoulder
L	In F11	Mia though the bag on skittles across the jess, which she catches.	Mid shot			Mia and Jess	Skittles	Shot must be taken on the right
M	In F11	Jess catches the skittles.	Extreme close up			Jess	Skittles and ring	Jess must catch skittles with left hand
N	In F11	Over Mia’s right shoulder, jess ask Mia a question	Over the shoulder Mid shot		“Same time next week?”	Mia and Jess		Shot must be taken form over Mia’s right shoulder
O	In F11	Over Jess’s right shoulder Mia nods	Over the shoulder Mid shot			Mia and Jess		Shot must be taken from over Jess’s right shoulder

Story Board

Analysis of 'No Country for Old Men'

‘No Country for Old Men’ was produced in 2007 starring, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. This film is created by having a lot of mystery and darkness about it. From the very beginning of the movie there is a chase and this chase carries on throughout the entire film between numbers of different characters, all for different reasons that are linked together. In the film there is a hunter that stumbles across a shoot-out between two groups of people in the middle of the waste land. A Deputy Sheriff that is looking for the hunter, he goes to see his wife and tries to follow him to where he is running too. The criminal is also after the hunter for what he has got with him, which he stole when he was out in the desert.

This screen grab is the beginning of 'No Country for Old Men’; it is an extreme long shot of a waste land scape. There are multiple types of extreme long shots of different areas of this land, throughout the narrative speaking from an unknown character that you don’t see or hear from at all in the film, the shots pan from one to the other to show the audience that there is no one out here, it is a deserted. In one shot all the movement you can see is the wind blowing the sand around, this is the only movement and is very affective. In this shot all you can see is a broken fence in front of the shot, this is showing that there isn’t very much security in this large place. In the distances you can see a mountain; this shows how far away the actual shot goes to.

This second shot, is still in the waste land setting, however there are now two characters that have been introduced. They are walking towards what looks like an old police car; the character dressed all in black has his hands behind his back, he looks like he has been arrested by the officer that is escorting him to the car. This makes the audience want to know what this character has done to be arrested, and makes them want to keep watching and find out. This shot is a long shot because the audience can see the two characters, the car and into the distance with the road at the side. This creates a sense of concern that the officer is alone with the prisoner. Is he dangerous and what will happen while they are alone together.

This third shot is a close up of an officer on the phone; he looks at ease and is obviously unaware that there is another character coming up behind him. The second character in this shot is dressed all in black, while the officer is dressed in quite a bright natural colour. This instantly says to the audience that the character in black isn’t the good guy. His face isn’t shown in the shot so that tells us that they don’t want you to know who he is just yet. The setting of this show seems to be some sort of office, maybe it is the station. In a shot before this, the officer had arrested the mysterious guy, however we still do not get a clear image of what he looks like or who he is.

The last shot I have chosen is a bird’s eye, close up of a pair of hands and handcuffs. We can’t see the person, but we can see that they have been injured. There are cuts all around his wrists, there is also blood on the handcuffs. So the audience automatically think that the character has cut themselves by the handcuffs. By looking at the hands you can tell that these hands belong to a male, this is because they big and rough looking. If it was a female then they would be smaller and thinner looking. The character is reaching to turn the tap on, so this tells us that he is going to get rid of any traces of blood and clean himself up. It makes the audience think, has he done this before, because he seems to know what he is doing and is very good at covering it up.



Thriller Conventions

Camera work:

·        establishing shots- location

·        Mid shots- characteristics

·        Close ups- disorientation, claustrophobic  

·        Key Props

·        Creates suspension

·        High/low angle shots to show power/ status

·        1^st person= empathy

Editing:

·        Shows complex narrative/ tension- as story converges

·        Straight cuts can create pace- tension

·        Flash backs- show key moments and connections.

Thriller opening conventions:

·        Drama- tension

·        Use of music

·        Title-: name of film- actor/directors, company indent

·        Not too much dialogue

·        Confusion- questions?

·        One significant event

·        Atmosphere

Sound:

·        Use ambient sounds- music/ noises- fade in and out= atmosphere

·        Voice over to create back story.

·        Avoid dialogue

Mise-en-scene

·        Setting- realistic/ isolated

·        Costume- realistic clothes, everyday people

·        Actors- males’ protagonist (hero), antagonist (villain), women victims?

·        Wepeans- realism (knife, gun)

·        Lighting- shadows, dark places, direct source of light

Narrative:

·        Disorientating- starts halfway through an event- audience asking questions

·        Chronological? Flash back/ flash forward?

·        Introduce main characters/ thread of plot, not too much, the audience wants to know what is going to happen.

Sub-genre:

·        Action Thriller

·        Crime Thriller

·        Psychological Thriller

·        Conspiracy

·        Religious Thriller

·        Disaster Thriller

·        Eco Thriller

·        Dystopia Thriller

·        Medical Thriller