Shot List Examples

Editing footage for third parties

Upon return from a family holiday I was asked to edit down footage from a range of clips into a short video, below are the results of this.

Rough cut of second year film

About Me

Preliminary task at start of first year

Film Study/Analysis

Individual Film Study

Genre: psychological horror

Similar Films To Our Own..

Shutter Island

U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Mental Hospital/Prison. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long, he begins to wonder whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical and illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's forward investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

This film is similar to ours in the sense that an individual is drove insane by self torment and question his own sanity, the film also reaches a peak of realization at the end just as our own film does.

Things the film does to display its genre:
the films color scheme stays mainly grey and black colors making sure the lighting is dull and also using reds to highlight important information or key points, the film also uses flashbacks to great effect but showing them not as the audience remembers them, this is used to make the audience question their own minds and make them feel uneasy about not remembering what just happened

Case 39:

Social Worker Emily Jenkins is assigned to investigate the family of ten year-old Lilith Sullivan as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been mistreating Lilith. Emily's fears are confirmed when Lilith’s parents try to kill her by roasting her in the oven at home. Emily saves Lilith with the help of Detective Mike Barron. Lilith is originally sent to a children's home, but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lilith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lilith’s parents, Edward and Margaret are placed in a mental institution.

Not too long after Lilith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily. Two weeks later, another of Emily's cases, a boy named Diego suddenly murders his parents, and Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime. As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lilith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best friend, Douglas J. Ames. During the session, however, Lilith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and subtly threatening him. That night, Douglas receives a strange phone call and is panicked by a mass of hornets coming out of his body; in hysteria, he kills himself in his bathroom. The film continues with the torment of each character until once again as typical with this genre a climax is reached.

  

Reasearch into age ratings

The age rating will attempt to achieve for our film will be a 15, this is due to the fact we will want a wide an audience as possible to view our film whilst still sticking to the guidelines of the BBFC.

The major difference between a 12 and a 15 are as follows

strong violence

frequent strong language (eg 'f***').

portrayals of sexual activity

strong verbal references to sex

sexual nudity

brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence

discriminatory language or behavior

drug taking

Depending on the amount of strong language and violence we decide to add into our final film the rating could possibly come down due to the fact our film has no scripted sexual content, however, our film is going to be based heavily on drugs and the use of drugs. The BBFC allows the use of drugs in 15 films as long as “drug taking does not promote or encourage drug misuse” and as well as this “The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances like aerosols or solvents is unlikely to be acceptable at 15”. I believe that the film will stick to these guidelines as the film has no solvent abuse as well as it shows drugs in an extremely negative light.

The aspect of “insanity” in our film is also in my opinion to an acceptable level for a 15 and the BBFC say that “Many horror films are rated 15 and at 15 there can be strong threats and menace” this means our film as far as is so far scripted will be acceptable in this category.